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 ...

What looks like a flying egg, was never designed to land, and was so light it could be thrown off course by its own guns?

Adaptive cycle engines are specially designed to alternate between efficiency and raw power—extending an aircraft’s range ...

Piston-engined fighters ruled the roost for thirty years. A brutal survival of the fittest ensured a rapid evolution of these characterful machines; the final fighters were over six times faster and ...

Every air force needs its own nimble, lightweight, single-engine fighter jet. For the United States, that's Lockheed Martin's F-16 Fighting Eagle, a fighter jet that's been around since 1979. For ...