The modern fighter jet is defined by its engine, which accelerates a tremendous volume of air rearward that it can propel an aircraft weighing as much as 70,000 pounds at supersonic speeds. While ...

Jet engines can't just start with the push of a button. We explain what jets need to get them going, and why there needs to ...

For each flight, one pilot launched the jet using conventional flight controls. Then, midflight, they switched control to a second pilot who operated the active flow control system.

Since the 1960s engineers around the world have been fiddling with a novel type of jet called a rotating detonation engine (RDE), but it has never got beyond the experimental stage. That could be ...