After more than a decade on the ground, the Military Aviation Museum's Messerschmitt Me 262 replica is edging closer to ...

This article investigates Britain's first jet fighter. Also, a member of an RAF unit that worked on the Meteor tells about a ...

While the numbers may be inflated, Luftwaffe pilots claimed that the Me 262 shot down 542 Allied aircraft during the war.

As one would expect, the transition to jet-powered fighters was fraught with danger—and prototype P-80 test flights resulted ...

The detonation wave combusts the fuel-air mixture at supersonic speeds and at near-constant volume—a more efficient process than current jet engines in which combustion occurs as a subsonic ...

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have often required 3 different engines. The other solution is using a rocket ... when the U.S. Army Air Forces tasked Lockheed with building a jet fighter prototype to counter the German Me-262.

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Bird strikes can cause significant damage to aircraft, with a risk of jet engines losing power should they suck in a bird. Struck aircraft will often need to abort their take-off or landing ...

Recently, they supported another step in that direction by providing an Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) grant to Phillip Ansell of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to develop a ...

GE Aerospace will supply the engines for a vast majority of aircraft in a new deal with Japan's largest aircraft company, All Nippon Airways. STORY HIGHLIGHTS GE Aerospace will supply the engines ...