Trying to keep up with science is, I conclude after watching openmouthed at an air show, like flying an F-18 at 700 miles an hour just 200 feet above the ground. The landscape is coming at you so fast ...

Nearly 30 years since its first test flight in 1997, the Lockheed Martin-Boeing F-22 Raptor still looks like it came from the future. Sporting both a curved body and hard-edged angles as well as that ...

Passenger aircraft are rather uniform, for the most part, with the familiar white color scheme of commercial planes and so on. Lots of travelers scarcely give their exteriors a second thought. There ...

Southwest Airlines is rolling out new technology in its Boeing 737 fleet in hopes of making takeoffs and landings safer. "Traffic doubles every 15 years…it is really seconds from disaster…We have a ...

Most travelers probably didn't give much thought to the security of airliner cockpits before the 9/11 attacks, and since then it might seem odd to some that cockpit doors are often left wide open ...