A conventional aircraft’s canopy increases drag, in theory reducing its top speed. So, to see frontwards from the XF-103, a Fresnel lens was placed in front of the pilot.

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Some seats on a plane are actually quieter than others, according to Dollar Flight Club. Not shockingly, the noisiest seats on the plane are those closest to the bathrooms and galleys.

When airline pilots travel as passengers, they bring a unique perspective from the cockpit to the cabin. And their fellow ...

Not many aircraft can claim to be truly one of a kind, but the NASA AD-1 is undoubtedly one of them. No other piloted plane has ever been built with a wing that could turn to a lopsided 20 to 2 ...

If you want to be in the least noisy part of a plane, choose any seat in front of the wing. Right behind the wing is where it ...

These windows on some aircraft — like the Boeing 737, 767, and 777 and Airbus A330 — are designed to be used by the cockpit crew in an emergency (and no, using them is not as cumbersome as ...

The Federal Aviation Authority will launch an investigation after a Delta Air Lines plane’s wing clipped the runway in a botched landing attempt at New York-LaGuardia airport. The pilot had been ...

The pilots of a Brazilian passenger plane that crashed last month, killing all 62 people aboard, reported failure in the system to remove ice from the plane, according to a preliminary report.

Cockpit audio indicates de-icing problems in deadly Brazil plane crash last month, ... that the lift loss had been caused by ice formation on the plane's wings and failure of its de-icing system.

The XF-103 Was an Odd-Looking Bird. The origin of the XF-103 was shared with the origins of the F-102 and F-104 jets. In 1949, the then-nascent U.S. Air Force requested a supersonic interceptor, a ...