IMUs combine gyroscopes and accelerometers to measure an aircraft’s angular velocity and linear acceleration. These sensors form the backbone of inertial navigation ... aircraft rely on pitot tubes ...

But if you've been bored enough, you may have looked at the planes outside the window and wondered why some have engines mounted under the wings, while others have them at the tail. The design ...

When you're flying on a commercial jet, you naturally become very familiar with the sound and feeling of the powerful turbine engines. As you take off, you can feel their rumbling muscle rocketing ...

Airbus is teasing technologies that could enable its next-generation single-aisle jet, including innovative engine and wing ...

the amount of harm the kite could have caused to the aircraft entirely depends on the material that the kite was constructed out of. Cheap plastic and nylon would be shredded by an engine's front ...

A flight was diverted and travelers had to use emergency slides when an engine caught fire on an American Airlines flight, the latest in a series of recent flight emergencies. A flight was ...

Airbus is also developing an open-fan engine that operates at the same speed as the ducted fan and hydrogen-powered aircraft. Still, the latter is not expected to be ready for the next-generation ...

an engine on the Boeing 737-800 caught fire, the FAA added. Photos and videos posted by news outlets showed passengers standing on a plane's wing as smoke surrounded the aircraft. The FAA said ...

There’s now an Xbox-branded Backbone One inspired by the Halo-themed original Xbox Controller S (like the one that Hyperkin recently modernized). It is no different than the standard Backbone ...