In the early 1990s, hundreds of oil wells burned uncontrollably across Kuwait after retreating Iraqi forces set them ablaze. Conventional firefighting methods proved dangerously slow against infernos ...

Thrust vectoring—essentially redirecting the plane’s exhaust flow—allows modern fighters to quickly change direction, giving them an edge in close combat.

The National Transportation Safety Board confirmed it is aware of a brief text from a passenger on board the aircraft to a ...

Federal investigators are trying to figure out why a business jet carrying retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and six others ...

Prof. An Tao from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed a novel ...

“My hobby is jet engines,” Dustin Brice explained to me over the phone. “I was sitting in the garage one day, and there’s a ...

The tailless uncrewed jet contains several features associated with low-observable aircraft and is believed to play a role in ...

The AV-8B Harrier is now nearly retired—but its mission profile will live on in the F-35B Lightning II, which shares many of the same capabilities.

A new study has found that airplane exhaust releases toxic nanoparticles—specifically "onion-like" and amorphous particles—during takeoff and landing, which can invade cabin air and be breathed in by ...

The West Jefferson, N.C., plant produces commercial and military aircraft engine components, including rotating parts, blisks, high-pressure turbines, and spools for the CFM LEAP-1B engines that power ...

I used to be the guy handing out feathers and gleefully looking up. Hold on, I’m getting ahead of myself. In my early writing on artificial intelligence, beginning with my first “Cognitive Manifesto,” ...