On this day in aviation history, January 26, 1945, the McDonnell FH Phantom, the first pure-jet aircraft developed ... and provisions for Rocket Assisted Take Off (RATO) bottles for shorter ...

The F-35 fighter jet ... can lift off from short runways and land vertically, making it ideal for aircraft carriers and small airstrips. * F-35C (Carrier Variant / Catapult-Assisted Take-Off ...

Ramjets are air-breathing jet engines that use the vehicle’s forward motion ... A ramjet-powered vehicle requires an assisted take-off like a rocket assist to accelerate it to a speed where it begins ...

With the concept of a “Sea Raptor” out of the question, the US Navy needed a fifth-generation fighter jet equivalent that could land ... It has been designed for catapult-assisted take-off and barrier ...

One of the Taiwan air force's new, domestically developed advanced jet trainer aircraft crashed on Saturday after reporting ...

A US military fighter jet ... off Shelter Island, a neighborhood located directly across the bay from Naval Air Station North Island, the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department confirmed. “We saw it ...

One jet veered off the runway and collided with the Gulfstream 200 jet that was parked, according to Kuester. It appeared that the primary landing gear of the arriving jet failed, resulting in the ...

Each winter, the jet stream intensifies. It also grows in strength at night, when the lower atmosphere starts to cool, which happens to be when many flights from the East Coast take off for ...

Two crew members ejected from a U.S. Navy jet before it crashed Wednesday off the San Diego coast and were quickly rescued by a sportfishing boat, authorities said.The two occupants of the E/A-18G ...

Authorities say two crew members ejected from a U.S. Navy jet before it crashed off the coast of San Diego and were rescued by a fishing boat LOS ANGELES -- Two crew members ejected from a Navy ...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — A private jet veered off the runway Monday at the Scottsdale Airport in Arizona and crashed into a private jet, the Federal Aviation Administration said. There is no ...