The French Aerospace Lab estimates on average that each aircraft in the U.S. commercial fleet is struck by lightning every ...

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 ] Aircraft can be struck by lightning even ...

Stormscope (sferics device) offers real-time lightning data, providing immediate weather information not available through ground-based systems which are delayed and require data links. Ground-based ...

A Radical Leap in Design When English Electric finalized the P1B design in the mid-1950s, the Royal Air Force suddenly h ...

A British Airways flight was struck by lightning in a terrifying incident on Sunday afternoon just as the plane was preparing to land at Heathrow Airport, forcing the aircraft to divert to a different ...

An incredibly loud bang and a brilliant flash of dazzling light. It’s the startling experience of sitting in the flight deck ...

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 ...

The airframe of the fighter, known as the BF-01, was carried by a heavy-lift CH-53K King Stallion helicopter from NAS ...

More than two dozen aircraft from the U.S., Japan and U.K. conducted tactical air exercises Thursday over waters east of ...

U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) conducts flight operations with F-35C Lightning II fighter jets in the ...