At the very crux of engineering is the desire to problem-solve, optimize, and squeeze out every bit of efficiency possible from the system being built. Aircraft design and aeronautical engineering ...

It’s a rare occasion when a piece of engineering transcends its pure industrial function and becomes art. And it’s even rarer when that metamorphosis is the byproduct of a quest for better performance ...

Here’s an interesting footage filmed form inside a Russian Tu-95 Bear bomber like the ones that skirt northern Europe’s airspaces every now and then. Although it does not show anything special about ...

Precious Metal is a staple of the air racing community. The highly modified P-51's striking yellow and polished paint job and its contra-rotating propellers are features that make it stand out, but ...

The Russian Tu-95 'Bear' isn't just a relic of the Cold War, with the potential for a nuclear payload capable of untold devastation. It's eight contra-rotating propellers also enable to it hold the ...

Douglas Aircraft Company explored unconventional pusher propeller designs in the mid-1940s, culminating in the XB-42 Mixmaster bomber and the conceptual DC-8 Skybus airliner, neither of which went ...

The Hughes XF-11 was a massive, long-range photo reconnaissance aircraft, significantly larger and more powerful than the Lockheed P-38 Lightning, with which it shared a similar silhouette. Despite ...

WHEN A MODIFIED MD-80 airliner flew at the 1988 Farnborough air show in Britain, it was supposed to represent the future of air travel. One of its rear-mounted jet engines had been replaced with an ...