Over the years, numerous improvements in aircraft design, maintenance and operational procedures have resulted from crash investigations. Each incident, especially a fatal one such as the Air India ...

So, what caused a highly reliable twin engine jet to turn into a glider? The short answer is fuel contamination. The Lear 35 ...

Feitian-2 has several additions as compared to its predecessor, Feitian-1. It features larger tail fins, and new wings just in front of the rocket's nose, improving the stability and maneuverability ...

The Republic F-105 Thunderchief, known to its crews as the Thud, was a cornerstone of US Air Force strike capability dur ...

In this paper, a three-dimensional (3D) non-stationary geometry-based stochastic model (GBSM) is proposed for low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) ...

Airplane cabin temperatures can dictate safety as well as comfort. Advocates say they need to be standardized.

In addition, for reasons not entirely understood, high altitude and lower air pressure causes fluid to leak from the capillaries which can cause fluid build-up in both the lungs and the brain.

NASA is getting ready to fly two planes over mid-Atlantic states and parts of California, where they will be carrying out special maneuvers at a close distance while collecting valuable data about our ...

As the astronomers studied the young star system, which lies 307 light-years away in the deep southern sky, they spotted the formation of high-altitude clouds around the planet.

In 2010 the Chinese carrier killer missile was ready. After two decades of effort, the Chinese Navy now had its DF-21D ballistic missile equipped to hit warships at sea and over a thousand kilometers ...

Last week's Cruising Altitude: After the fatal Concorde crash, could supersonic flight return? On top of that, she said, different parts of the cabin can be different temperatures, and often the ...