Modern fighter jets are very loud. They can blast between 140 and 153 decibels of noise on takeoff when they use their afterburners, which is enough to burst a person's eardrums if they're at close ...

Airplane windows might seem ordinary, but they are as much of an engineering marvel as the rest of a modern aircraft. These windows are made of three layers of material to facilitate the plane's ...

The sky goes gold and the CF-18 comes alive like a thunderstorm with wings. From the cockpit, every pull feels violent and every pass feels impossibly close to the ground. Twilight makes the whole ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new video gives us great looks at last month's historic first flight of NASA's new "quiet" X-59 supersonic jet. The video shows ...

Nearly 30 years since its first test flight in 1997, the Lockheed Martin-Boeing F-22 Raptor still looks like it came from the future. Sporting both a curved body and hard-edged angles as well as that ...

The F-22 Raptor is built by Lockheed Martin and is one of the most advanced fighter jets on the planet. However, it's easy to forget that this plane is nearly 30 years old with the first F-22 Raptor ...

Airbus has long been known for its forward-thinking approach to avionics, and nowhere is that more evident than in the A320neo family. Introduced in 2016, the “neo” — for “new engine option” — wasn’t ...