Business Insider recently sat down with a test pilot for the F-35 stealth fighter jet. She explained what it was like to jump from flying older F-16s to the fifth-generation aircraft. The biggest ...

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. (December 20, 2024) – The path to becoming a United States Army experimental test pilot is full of challenges and many rewards, in the case of the U.S. Army Redstone Test Center ...

Neil Armstrong is one of the most illustrious aviators in American history. His story begins with an early passion for flying ...

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model ...

The Boeing test pilot that flew the FAA certification flight last month has complete confidence in the airplane as it returns to passenger service. Heather Ross put the 787 through its paces during ...

They soar into the desert skies, piloting some of the most sophisticated aircraft the world has ever seen. They have an innate understanding of high-performance aircraft and are always pushing the ...

Former Volocopter Chief Test Pilot, with over 28 years flight test experience, joins Vertical Vertical now among the few eVTOL companies in the world with multiple test pilots to have flown full-scale ...

DRDO`s successful high-speed rocket sled test of fighter jet ejection seats promises enhanced pilot safety. Discover the cutting-edge technology safeguarding India`s aviators.

Washington (CNN) — The pilots in a deadly business jet crash in Michigan were performing a test flight themselves, following repairs, instead of waiting for a test pilot, when the aircraft plunged ...

Five decades ago, George Cooper, a World War II and NASA test pilot, planted grapes in Saratoga’s Santa Cruz Mountains and launched the family-run Cooper-Garrod Vineyards. Now Cooper’s son, Bill, and ...

A 24,000-foot-per-minute descent rate doesn’t leave much margin for recovery in any fixed-wing aircraft. In the case of the Raytheon Hawker 800XP that crashed near Bath Township, Michigan on October ...