Science made possible for 1 million pound machines to fly.

You need a pilot's license to fly most aircraft. However, a loophole allows you to fly certain ultralight aircraft with no ...

Fighter plane tails were dramatically reshaped after the advent of “fly-by-wire” controls, rendering the aircraft’s stability irrelevant. What’s in a tail? The tail of a fighter aircraft, specifically ...

Specialization has long been important in the field of aviation, particularly when it comes to how aircraft are used. For example, although helicopters like the Apache and UH-60 Black Hawk are both ...

Joby and L3Harris hope their autonomous VTOL aircraft could one day carry out military operations, including by acting as a ...

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