R esearchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made a new physics-based tool that can predict how ...

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President Trump on Tuesday said modern airplanes are too complex, following the deadly crash of a plane in Ethiopia over the weekend, underscoring the need for “great flying professionals,” as opposed ...

An Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed shortly after takeoff over the weekend, killing all 157 people on board. The plane, a Boeing 737 Max 8, was the same model as an Indonesian Lion Air flight, which ...

The Wright Brothers are famous for being the first individuals to fly an airplane successfully back in 1903. While the plane itself was primitive at best, it's somewhat awe-inspiring to consider just ...

(CNN) — What caught your eye the last time you looked out of your airplane window? It might have been the winglet, a now ubiquitous appendage at the end of each wing, often used by airlines to display ...

President Trump bemoaned the complexity of modern airplane technology on Tuesday, after a second deadly crash of a Boeing 737 Max 8 over the weekend left no survivors. Another plane of the same model ...

Question: Why haven't modern airplanes been built with extensive video surveillance of the outside of the aircraft so pilots can observe all parts, especially if something goes wrong? It seems archaic ...