The refinement of the fighter jet seems to have happened at a blistering pace. The world's first operative fighter jet was Germany's Messerschmitt Me 262, which took to the skies during the latter ...

Fighter jet engines are complex machines that enable aircraft to reach incredible speeds. The modern fighter jet is defined by its engine, which accelerates a tremendous volume of air rearward that it ...

Five years ago, in 2021, American space agency NASA announced it is working on yet another project that doesn’t involve, well, space: the Hybrid Thermally Efficient Core (HyTEC). Since then, NASA’s ...

Perhaps not as visible as their counterparts doing business in the automotive industry, aviation startups are just as numerous. Some of them are proposing outlandish ideas that will probably never ...

close-up of jet engine nacelle with a strake on the side - Dinujaya/Shutterstock There are many components that go into a jet engine, from combustors to compressors to those gigantic fans that are a ...

There’s a building in Roswell that looks like any other brick warehouse, except for two things: It features a couple of metal cooling towers that don’t match the rest of the building, and there’s an ...