On June 20, 1965, North Vietnamese MiG-17 pilots circled the wreckage of a downed American F-4 Phantom, confident the skies were now theirs. Usually, the next aircraft to arrive would be another ...

Designers of airplane propellers used to weep into their blueprints every time a jet plane roared over the plant. They feared that the fierce little jets, which have no propellers, were the wave of ...

We live in an age of military jet engines and have since the tail end of World War II. For the most part, the majority of commercial and military aircraft are powered by jet engines, but some planes ...