How do military aircraft like the F-16 achieve supersonic speeds? It’s all thanks to the afterburner. An afterburner is made up of five rings on the back of the engine, each with hundreds of ...

Supercruise sounds like marketing spin, but in aviation it describes a very specific and demanding trick: flying faster than ...

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 ...