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Aerial refueling, or air-to-air refueling (AAR), transfers fuel from a tanker to another aircraft (the “receiving” airplane) in mid-flight. These “gas stations in the sky” can keep aircraft aloft for amazing amounts of time...
F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter "Midnight Rider" #799, arrives on flatbed truck at Hill Aerospace Museum Have you ever transported an F-117 Nighthawk from one state to another, then positioned it into...
The use of aircraft in warfare is something that is easy to take for granted today. It might be hard to imagine a time when there were no warplanes—but military aviation is only a...
Developed during the Cold War under the secretive Skunk Works division at Lockheed to meet increasingly demanding reconnaissance requirements, the SR-71 "Blackbird" broke speed and altitude records that have yet to be broken. It...
Carl Wolfram Plane Talk — February 4, 2017 — The Other Side of the Story An awesome Plane Talk last Saturday! Carl Wolfram, an Ogden resident, spoke at Hill Aerospace Museum’s Plane Talk Series. As a young, curious boy in Hammelburg, Germany, Carl snuck away from his mother and ran out of an air raid […]
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