Enclosed cockpits and increasingly powerful engines boosted aircraft capability in addition to the stress on pilot's bodies. Cannons, rocket pods, and larger banks of machine guns made the craft ...

Airplane tires may typically be smaller than truck tires, but despite bearing far more weight at much higher speeds (for comparably shorter amounts of time) they're typically quite durable.

The durability problems affecting jet engines have hit this aircraft hard, forcing airlines to cancel flights and ground crews. RTX-owned Pratt & Whitney has said that many of its PW1500G ...

Polaris opted to create two identical airframes in order to speed up flight testing as well as have a "reserve" aircraft if need be. "In addition," writes the team, "the design has been greatly ...

Traditional airplanes pump out about a billion tons of carbon dioxide every year. Electric planes produce no emissions at all, and that's only their first advantage. "One of the things that I ...

Swiss – Switzerland’s flag carrier – is having to make alterations to some of its aircraft because new first class seats, due to be installed as a much needed revamp, are proving to be too ...

(Bloomberg) -- After the world posted its worst year for wildfires, with an area roughly the size of Nicaragua scorched in 2023, one plane model has become the most important aircraft on Earth.

That's because the law requires all personal electronic devices (PEDs) to be placed into airplane mode for the safety of those aboard the aircraft. Snopes readers asked us to examine why airline ...

If you said 1980's Airplane!, you're right. If you said 1957's Zero Hour!, you're also right. In the words of Wayne Campbell (Mike Myers), "Exsqueeze me? A baking powder?" How can both be true?

The United States has seized a luxury aircraft that officials say was illegally purchased and “smuggled” out of the country for use by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, whose authoritarian ...