Piston-engined fighters ruled the roost for thirty years. A brutal survival of the fittest ensured a rapid evolution of these ...

The principal takeaway here is that the F-15 Eagle is objectively faster, but that the F-35 Lightning II is the smarter ...

The Whirlwind was a heavily-armed, single-seat, twin-engine fighter designed for high performance, with great attention paid ...

As terrible recent conflicts have shown, the fighter aircraft is far from dead and can prove vital for a nation’s survival. The most modern fighters can shoot down an enemy aircraft at a range of 100 ...

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 ...

Business Insider flew with a Royal Air Force Voyager aerial refueling tanker this week. The Voyager refueled British and Swedish fighter jets in Eastern Europe, close to Russian territory. This is ...

Pilots sometimes need to operate at slow speeds—during tight turns and landings, for instance—and good low-speed handling is ...

Air power may have proved lethally effective during the First World War, but the technology was still in its infancy. By 1939, however, European air forces as well as North American and Asian powers ...

A new indigenously developed Hybrid Brake Parachute aims to boost operational safety and pilot survivability for India’s ...

Normally, a plane moves along three rotational axes. “Inertia coupling” takes place when the plane inadvertently moves on two at the same time, usually resulting in loss of control.