Inside a jet engine, temperatures soar beyond the melting point of the very metal that holds the machine together. So how does it stay intact? Engineers use advanced materials, hollow blades, and ...

To anyone with an attraction to speed and the excitement of flying, the thought of flying a fighter jet will seem out of reach. The road to becoming a military aviator is highly arduous, and it ...

In 1930, Whittle designed and sought a patent on his first jet engine. His idea languished and failed to gain traction during the turbulent times of the Great Depression and pre-World War II political ...

A white wide-body jet in the air, with one jet engine appearing on the right-hand wing - Dushlik/Getty Images The dawn of the jet age changed the landscape of commercial flight forever, giving rise to ...

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 ...