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 come to fruition, while others, the ones that are more down ...

The engine of a UPS jet that exploded in a ball of fire in Kentucky fell off the aircraft during takeoff, officials revealed while confirming the fiery death toll had reached 12 in an “apocalyptic” scene that looked like something out of “Terminator.”

In the 1960s, Germany built a revolutionary aircraft powered by 10 jet engines capable of producing over 66,000 pounds of thrust. Designed to take off vertically and reach speeds above 700 kmh, it combined helicopter-like lift with jet performance.

The plane was traveling from Paris to Ajaccio in Corsica when its engine blew at around 6:00 p.m. local time on Saturday, Dec. 20 Massimo Insabato/Archivio Massimo Insabato/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty A passenger jet was reportedly forced to make an ...

For most people, diesel engines equate to either pickup trucks or semis traversing freeways. However, what many of us do not know is that diesel engines can be used in aircraft, too. You would not find them on airliners, though, which typically use jet ...

The newest jets promise efficiency and luxury, but hidden trade-offs lurk beneath the shiny exterior.

Aerial firefighting helicopters ingest significant volumes of airborne particles, and operators are advised to conduct periodic “compressor washes” to remove the contaminants from the compressor.

The refinement of the fighter jet seems to have happened at a blistering pace. The world's first operative fighter jet was Germany's Messerschmitt Me 262, which took to the skies during the latter stages of World War II. The first supersonic aircraft with ...