So, how do military aircraft with low aspect ratios and high MTOWs take off within hundreds of feet? Some have Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) capabilities, but the rest get some assistance.

NASA has released a new image providing photographic evidence of Boom Supersonic's XB-1 prototype aircraft breaking the sound barrier ... is that you often have to take someone else's word ...

Conditioning has led us all to expect traditionally configured aircraft to take off and land horizontally ... to confirm the jet was aerodynamically sound. After the initial test flight was ...

Between 1976, when Concorde began flights to the United States, and 2003, when the aircraft was retired, you may have been fortunate enough, as I was once, to see Concorde take off. I noticed it ...