In the late 1980s, the Boeing corporation planned to create an unusual airplane with one of the latest technological advances of its time - propfan engines. The company wanted this new aircraft to ...

Nearly two years to the day after a plane crash in Lake Placid left two dead, a report has been released detailing some of what led to the 2023 crash, but there are still some unknowns. The report ...

In 2022, NASA dropped a full-scale aircraft fuselage from a height of 35 feet, destroying it well beyond expectations. NASA recently demonstrated a much improved version.

Opinion polls show public support growing for a stronger defense, and the new leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Sanae Takaichi, has called for more military spending.

The Turbo-Mentor was conceived by Beechcraft specifically as a trainer, one that would propel aviation forward much farther than the propeller itself. Indeed, the aircraft was a propeller model when ...

While not everyone agrees on the installation of wind turbines in their proverbial back yards, one thing not up for debate is that there is a drive to build them bigger, and bigger. Big turbines ...

Operation Spiderweb, eighteen months in the making, was Ukraine’s most audacious drone strike to date. According to Ukrainian government sources, as much as a third of Russian president Vladimir Putin ...

South Burlington-based BETA Technologies, Inc on September 29, 2025, applied to the Securities and Exchange Commission to take the electric aircraft company public. BETA has many components to the ...

Vermont-based electric aircraft developer Beta Technologies has filed for an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange to raise funds for its Alia aircraft family development.

In the world of general aviation, not many light aircraft can claim to have a genuine military pedigree, although a few have been spiffed up to look like warbirds. One of the few nonpretenders is the ...

A detailed Ukrainian analysis shows the jet-powered Geran-3 is slower than previously thought, but fast enough to poses new challenges for defenders.