Twin-engine fighters have often been overshadowed by their single-engine counterparts, yet they played crucial roles in the history of aerial warfare. Despite their impressive capabilities, many of ...

Long before twinjets ruled the skies, Lockheed studied a twin-engine L-1011. Why did it never leave the drawing board?

Can a sports car be transformed into a monster truck simply by mounting a second engine? That’s the sort of engineering paradox now making the rounds in the U.S. defense community, with recent plans ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In military aviation, raw speed is no longer a benchmark for domination over the skies. Power has evolved into a multidimensional ...

The United States has built almost all of the world’s most expensive aircraft—typically for niche roles such as stealth bombing or electronic warfare. Modern military aircraft are engineering ...

The Army’s longest-serving aircraft still fly because they do jobs newer platforms sometimes can’t do as cheaply or reliably The battle-tested and proven aircraft of the Army have reliably performed ...

In more ways than one, being a fighter jet pilot for the U.S. Navy is a lot more demanding than being one for the U.S. Air Force. After all, while taking a plane to the sky and landing it is something ...