Airplanes obviously employ very different engine technology compared to ground vehicles, but some actually do use a form of ...

Beijing knows that it needs to take over commercial aviation. Supersonic flight is key to that.

Editor’s Note (4/7/25): The puzzle solution was edited after posting to provide a process with even fewer planes, as ...

For a long time, the Kakeya conjecture, which involves rotating an infinitely narrow needle, kept mathematicians ...

Monash University researchers have extended Descartes’ Circle Theorem by finding a general equation for any number of tangent ...

Stefan B. Williams receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC), Australian Economic Accelerator (AEA) program and the Inkfish Foundation. More than 11 years after the disappearance ...

The plane’s right wing and right main landing gear broke apart from the aircraft during the Feb. 17 crash-landing, according to preliminary findings GEOFF ROBINS/AFP via Getty Delta Flight ...

Canadian authorities released a preliminary report Thursday finding the crew of Delta Flight 4819 may not have taken corrective action before the plane hard-landed and flipped on a Toronto runway ...

A rapid descent — at nearly double the speed defined as a “hard landing” — and a flat angle of approach toward the tarmac may have contributed to the plane colliding with and rolling ...

The aircraft was a CL-600-2D24 (Regional Jet Series 900) manufactured by Bombardier Inc. in 2008. In U.S. court, Canadian passengers blame Delta's 'recklessness' for Toronto crash ...

The U.S. Coast Guard found the plane’s wreckage days later, on sea ice around 30 miles southeast of Nome. "Post-accident examination of the airplane contents indicated that the baggage and cargo ...

A commuter plane that crashed on sea ice off Alaska, killing all 10 people on board, was half a ton overweight for a trip into icy conditions, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a ...