A commercial airliner can weigh anywhere from 100,000 pounds to over a million pounds. It is astonishing how such gargantuan weight can not only take off from the ground, but also routinely fly long ...

America’s special operations forces are looking a new aircraft – one capable of both vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) and the high-speed flight of traditional fixed-wing jets. Speaking at the ...

Hypersonic aircraft, meaning the ones capable of traveling at speeds of Mach 5 (3,836 mph / 6,173 kph), are the next big target of the aviation industry. Fueled by the evolution of the hypersonic ...

Have you heard about the Switchblade flying sports car? Well, the company that builds it, Samson Sky, says it hit 88 mph in runway test runs recently, which was calculated to be the take-off speed of ...

Among the wildest sights in aviation is a high-performance aircraft taking off from a lake or the sea. The exciting ability ...