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 ...

What can you do in 45 seconds? Could you skydive between two planes that are in a 140 mph vertical nose dive, regain control, and avoid the rather final hard stop at the end? That is the premise of ...

The go/no-go decision during takeoff has little margin for error and the consequences of making the wrong decision can be unrecoverable. This accident illustrated ...