Airliners have become an unremarkable part of modern life, but unless you happen to be an aircraft enthusiast, you’d be forgiven for thinking the latest Airbus model looks more or less the same ...
If you look at the first popular jet airliners, like the Boeing 707 and the DC-8, you'll notice that they have four engines. That's because jet engines during the 1950s just weren't as powerful ...
Airlines have a very strong incentive not to risk their planes getting shot out of the sky. And it's not just a hypothetical fear. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union shot down a South Korean ...
Meanwhile, although supersonic airliners haven’t been flying since the Concorde retired in 2003, the Lockheed Martin X-59 Quesst supersonic airplane that is being built for NASA looks set to fix ...