One aircraft has occupied an unparalleled place in the history of the aviation industry over almost half a century. The SR-71 ...

Two is one and one is none; This saying speaks volumes about the role of redundant systems within the military. In life-or-death situations such as combat, having a working backup could mean the ...

The U.S. Air Force has been making decisions about what future jet fighters will look like. The contest between Boeing and Lockheed to design and build the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) ...

Revolutionary engine prototype three decades in the making could replace combined turbine-ramjet systems in high-speed flight ...

For more than 70 years, scientists and engineers have been baffled by the thunderous roar of jet engines — a problem that has ...

The story of the jet in British military aviation is often overshadowed. England deployed the Allied powers' first and only jet fighter during World War II. The Gloster Meteor made its operational ...

It also allows the engine to effectively act as three different engines, depending on speed. During ground operations, including taxiing, takeoff, climbing, and subsonic cruising, the engine acts like ...

Perhaps not as visible as their counterparts doing business in the automotive industry, aviation startups are just as numerous. Some of them are proposing outlandish ideas that will probably never ...