When Britain set out to build its first true jet bomber, Teddy Petter rejected the fashionable swept-wing approach and chose ...

But the variable-sweep wing design seems to have gone out of fashion most recently. As the name suggests, “variable-sweep” wings are aircraft wings that can be adjusted to different degrees of ...

The experimental Su-47 Russian demonstrator fighter jet was somewhat of a short-lived demonstrator, yet numerous public accounts suggest that its innovations propelled development of the country's two ...

The Canberra’s success began with a deceptively simple design. Teddy Petter gave it a straight, low-drag wing instead of ...

The winner-take-all nature of aerial combat means the slightest edge can be the difference between victory and death. Power, maneuverability, agility, armor, and armament were all key components of a ...

The F-14 Tomcat first entered service with the Navy in 1974, and Grumman built 712 in total. Of these, 632 were for the US ...