How the Ejection Seat Was Invented

How the Ejection Seat Was Invented

Aviation World, Military Aviation

They aimed to launch a man out of an aircraft at 600 miles per hour and have him survive the journey. It was 1945, and James Martin, a British engineer, had set out to solve a problem that had killed countless pilots: when your fighter is hit and burning and you’re...
Asia’s Fuel Panic: Airlines Burning Cash as Oil Hits $195

Asia’s Fuel Panic: Airlines Burning Cash as Oil Hits $195

News

Jet fuel just did something it hasn’t done in a decade. In a matter of weeks, it doubled. Airlines across Asia woke up in mid-March facing a crisis: the Strait of Hormuz—through which nearly 20 percent of the world’s crude oil flows—was becoming a war zone, and every...
Why Fighter Jets Have Two Tails

Why Fighter Jets Have Two Tails

Aviation World, Military Aviation

There’s a reason the most lethal fighter jets on Earth look like they were built in pairs. The twin vertical stabilizer isn’t decorative—it’s an engineering solution to a physics problem that becomes impossible to ignore once you’re pulling 9 Gs and dancing with...
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