If you've ever traveled on an airplane, you know that masks can drop down to supply oxygen in the case of an emergency. Airline oxygen masks have about a 15-minute supply and typically fall when an ...

Hollywood can exaggerate to the point of lunacy, and that's especially true of many military films. But when you see an actor remove his mask while pretending to fly a fighter jet, it may not actually ...

The United States wasn’t the first country to develop a jet-powered fighter aircraft, but it was definitely the first in which a pilot flew wearing a gorilla mask and derby hat while holding a cigar.

In the near future, “Top Gun” may get a reboot. Roughly one year from now, fighter pilots will begin flying with helmets outfitted with visors that can augment reality and place digital replicas of ...

Technology has played a dominant role in rewriting the rules of warfare. Today, a military's might is increasingly influenced not so much by its size, but rather by the sophistication and ...

Air Force fans are used to a lot of grey. Grey jets, grey helmets, and sometimes grey skies overhead as the jets blast off down the runway. That’s why when the branch posted photos on Facebook of ...

Visors that allow pilots to simulate dogfights while they're actually flying will give the U.S. military a "transformational" advantage, a former Air Force aviator told Fox News. "When you combine the ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BAE Systems has begun night trials on the Striker ® II helmet-mounted display (HMD), the company’s most advanced fighter pilot helmet, to evaluate its digital night vision ...

U.K. Typhoon fighter jet pilots flying NATO missions will be kitted out with BAE Systems' new night-vision, augmented reality helmets, the defense giant announced on Wednesday. The U.K. Ministry of ...

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (WKRG) — Pilots and engineers at Eglin Air Force Base are some of the first to try out the LIFT-manufactured helmet Next Generation Fixed Wing Helmet. The new helmet is set ...