Question: Do jets have antilock brakes to keep the speed and the nosewheel straight at takeoff speed? Answer: According to ...

Stopping an airplane is no easy task, and although planes can use spoilers and thrust reversers to assist with the task, the brakes still do around 40% of the work. In simple terms, it's all about ...

A commercial airliner can weigh anywhere from 100,000 pounds to over a million pounds. It is astonishing how such gargantuan weight can not only take off from the ground, but also routinely fly long ...

Sometimes, the most mundane sounding sentences presage something anything but ordinary: “All right, seatbelt is on tight? Here we go,” skydiver Luke Aikins smiles from the pilot’s seat of his Cessna ...

“I treat Bloodhound as a very low-flying airplane,” says Ron Ayers, the chief aerodynamicist for the Bloodhound Land Speed Record project—a Mach-busting car designed to exceed 800 mph. “We’re trying ...