A new model predicts how lightning would sweep across any airplane, including those with experimental designs. The tool ...

Lightning struck an Alaska Airlines plane yesterday traveling from Sitka to Ketchikan, shortly after departure.  Pat Kehoe ...

Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a groundbreaking simulation tool that can predict ...

Studies show that about 90 percent of the lightning strikes to aircraft are thought to be initiated by the presence of the aircraft itself. [Credit: iStock ] Question: A friend of mine was flying a ...

Storm-chasing NASA pilots recently spent weeks flying an aircraft not unlike a spy plane directly into thunderstorms in an effort to gain new insights about lightning and severe weather. Lightning has ...

The U.S. Marines claim that their ability to turn amphibious ships into aircraft carriers is a major advantage on the battlefield. Amphibious ships, though not full-fledged aircraft carriers, can ...

Warbird Restorations in Albion Park, Australia, is restoring two historic Lockheed P-38 Lightnings - "Dumbo" and Major Peyton ...

aircraft soaring to heights of more than 50,000 feet. Both experiments were “firsts,” offering new insight into dangerous weather disturbances and what fuels them. But today’s technology – the ...

Authorities Thursday identified the two men killed in the crash of a single-engine plane as it attempted to land at Zamperini Field in Torrance. The Arion Lightning airplane with two aboard crashed ...

SO WHAT’S HAPPENING WITH THAT PLANE NOW? WELL, ANTOINETTE AT THIS HOUR, THE AIRCRAFT IS OUT OF SERVICE AND UNDERGOING AN INSPECTION AS IS PROTOCOL IN SITUATIONS LIKE THIS. THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT ...

LOS ANGELES (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - A flight was forced to make an emergency landing after passengers heard an explosive sound and looked outside to see an engine was on fire. According to an account ...