On June 20, 1965, North Vietnamese MiG-17 pilots circled the wreckage of a downed American F-4 Phantom, confident the skies were now theirs. Usually, the next aircraft to arrive would be another ...

It's fairly common knowledge that when a supersonic aircraft approaches the sound barrier, what follows is the sonic boom. This transitory period between subsonic and supersonic, known as transonic ...

Designers of airplane propellers used to weep into their blueprints every time a jet plane roared over the plant. They feared that the fierce little jets, which have no propellers, were the wave of ...