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 ...

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 ...

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 ...