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 ...

Perhaps not as visible as their counterparts doing business in the automotive industry, aviation startups are just as numerous. Some of them are proposing outlandish ideas that will probably never ...

As one would expect, the transition to jet-powered fighters was fraught with danger—and prototype P-80 test flights resulted in dozens of crashes. Jet engines have long been standard fare in fighter ...