Air Force Facts

The US Air Force researched a “Gay Bomb”: A non-lethal bomb containing really strong pheromones that will make the enemy forces attracted to each other. It won the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize.

Joe Walsh of the Eagles was 20 months old when his father, an Air Force jet instructor, died in a 1949 collision over Okinawa. There was no support system for families like his. In 2017 Walsh started VetsAid, a benefit concert he plays himself, with the proceeds going to veterans' groups in that year's host city. Eight shows in, he is still showing up.

The 'retired' stealth jet is still flying The F-117 Nighthawk was officially retired in 2008. About 45 of them still sit at a remote Nevada airfield, and some still take off to play the enemy in training.