Today, airplanes are simply an accepted part of modern life, and as such, it's easy to forget how much of an engineering marvel they are. Just looking at how an airplane wing works, or how jet streams ...

An aircraft carrier airwing’s mainstay will always be its fighter jets, through which the carrier battle group can project force and take the fight to an adversary. The U.S. Navy has the largest and ...

Winter Storm brings deicing into focus: that truck sprays glycol-based fluid that strips ice and prevents refreeze before ...

Given how your average commercial airliner contains over a million parts, it's no surprise that keeping them airworthy takes a small army. In fact, Boeing estimates that the commercial aviation ...

Commercial airliners spend most of their working lives in parts of the atmosphere that the human body cannot tolerate for long. At cruising height, the surrounding air is thin enough that oxygen does ...