At first glance, the Dassault Falcon 20 looks like an ordinary executive aircraft. But in 1988, one unique example became ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chinese scientists have developed what they claim to be the world's first near-100% efficient jet engine afterburner. If true, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. F-35 Lightning fighter jets have conducted their first night flying trials off the United Kingdom’s largest warship, HMS Queen ...

Supercruise sounds like marketing spin, but in aviation it describes a very specific and demanding trick: flying faster than sound for long stretches without lighting fuel‑guzzling afterburners.

A video has emerged of an afterburner camera mounted on the back of a fighter jet showing amazing footage of what is like to witness a takeoff from the back of a jet. Watch this video and be amazed by ...

Eco-friendly and hypersonic—five times the speed of sound—sound like contradictions, but a Swiss aerospace startup took the first step towards combining the two, following a test flight of a prototype ...

Modern-day military aircraft are extremely potent machines, and it is all owed to the incredible hardware that goes into making them. One such hardware is the afterburner, in effect an additional ...

After eighteen years of troubled and controversial development, the Lockheed F-35 Lightning stealth fighter may soon enter mass production, many of its bugs having been expensively squashed after ...