The roar of the Thunderbirds filled the sky Saturday over Beale Air Force Base, long known for the more clandestine surveillance and recon missions of the U.S. Air Force. The Air & Space Expo is Beale ...

Forbes writer Jim Clash en route to 70,000 feet in a U-2 spy plane, Beale AFB, August 21, 2024. It’s extremely rare for a civilian - even a journalist - to score an edge-of-space ride in the backseat ...

Inside Look is a Sacramento Bee series where we take readers behind the scenes at restaurants, new businesses, local landmarks and news stories. It’s been seven years since Beale Air Force Base, home ...

Beale Air Force Base will be home to a new mission that could return the Northern California installation to the forefront of defense technology. Beale, near Marysville in Yuba County, was announced ...

A few years ago, I visited Beale AFB near Sacramento, California, for a series of Forbes stories about operations there (links below). The military base is home to the venerable U-2 and a fleet of ...

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(FOX40.COM) — On Friday, Thunderbird 8 of the United States Air Force Thunderbirds visited Beale Air Force base to conduct a site survey ahead of the base’s June airshow, according to Beale AFB.

Leaving the airspace above New York City at 2,455 miles per hour, SR-71 tail number 64-17972 would set a transatlantic speed record on Sept. 1, 1974.

Crews are responding to a grass fire at Beale Air Force Base in Yuba County on Friday. Cal Fire said the fire was sparked by a bird that flew into powerlines. The fire had burned 10 to 15 acres, as of ...

Beale Air Force Base will be home to a new mission that could return the Northern California installation to the forefront of defense technology. Beale, near Marysville in Yuba County, was announced ...