True innovation is built on the back of countless failures, and nowhere is that clearer than in the aerospace industry, which has produced some of history's funniest and most bizarre designs. Goodyear ...

Aircraft weight is important not just for calculating things like how much runway, thrust, and fuel an aircraft will need, but also for other things like calculating how much they disturb the air by ...

Commercial aircraft can vary greatly in size and weight, from the Airbus A319, which comes in at just 40 tons when empty, to ...

Not all aircraft carriers launch planes the same way. Some use steam or electromagnetic catapults to "fling" aircraft into the air. Others use a ski jump: a simple upward-curved ramp that lets jets ...

Conceptualized in 1939, two years before Nazi Germany betrayed their Soviet “ally,” the Soviet Navy was developing Project Kostromitinov. This Soviet aircraft carrier was a truly ambitious project—and ...