In commercial aviation, landings are designed to be gentle, with the idea that travelers will avoid planes with rough ...

Captain Ramiro Flores, a U.S. Navy program manager, described the problem of air combat training in one sentence: This program will provide modernized aircraft with exceptional avionics and tactical ...

You don't need to have seen either "Top Gun" movie to know that fighter jets can flip upside down, unlike commercial aircraft. But the sight of an inverted jet doesn't mean physics has flipped on its ...

The United States and China are the two obvious contenders for sixth-generation fighter programs—and various European nations ...

A modern fighter jet’s weapons systems officer is responsible for monitoring sensor data, operating weapons, and conducting electronic warfare. In Top Gun, Anthony Edward’s lovable character Goose is ...

While it might be tempting for the general public to refer to any military aircraft that flies fast as a fighter jet, there are a couple that don't exactly fit that designation. The legendary A-10 ...