In more ways than one, being a fighter jet pilot for the U.S. Navy is a lot more demanding than being one for the U.S. Air Force. After all, while taking a plane to the sky and landing it is something ...
From the 1970s through the 1990s, tri-jets were a common sight in our skies. Aircraft with three jet engines were capable of transoceanic flights and more fuel-efficient than four-engine aircraft like ...
In 1966, engineers at New York Central Railroad mounted two B-58 bomber jet engines onto a passenger railcar, creating the M-497 “Black Beetle.” It reached 183 mph—still the fastest speed ever ...
As the Marine Corps Says Goodbye to Decades-Old Jet, Its Maintainers Hit the Fleet for the Last Time
The Marine Corps is saying goodbye to a decades-old jet, and Marines who work on its engine will soon enter the fleet for the last time. The AV-8B Harrier II jet has been in service since the 1980s, ...
A jet engine with no moving parts. Sounds like something out of Dune. But a Baltimore start-up successfully flight-tested a scaled version to prove that the concept worked. Wave Engine Corp. released ...
While it's fairly common knowledge to enthusiasts that the first jet fighter was the speedy Messerschmitt Me 262, introduced in 1944, the invention of the turbine jet itself may not be as widely known ...
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