Stratofortress carries eight jet engines for a straightforward reason rooted in history. When the aircraft was conceived in ...
The De Havilland Comet was the world's first jet-powered airliner, but the Jet Age really began with the debut of the Boeing ...
Eighty-five years ago today, the first prototype turbojet aircraft, the He 178, was test-flown only days before Germany invaded Poland to start World War II. The plane could fly for only six minutes.