BMW is best known for cars, but during World War II, the company was tasked with making airplane engines for the German ...

NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft has taken another successful step toward flight with the conclusion of a series of engine performance tests.

Combustion engines, the engines in gas-powered cars, only use a quarter of the fuel's potential energy while the rest is lost ...

Combustion engines only use a quarter of the fuel’s potential energy while the rest is lost as heat through exhaust. Now, a ...

The spate of recent aviation disasters and close calls have people worried about the safety of flying.

"As we're on the runway going super-fast, as you normally are for takeoff, that's when it went super loud. Boom," Christine ...

Saab is well known as a car manufacturer, but as an aircraft manufacturer they have created some iconic fighter jets. With ...

The owner of a plane and a pilot were killed and six others injured when a plane smashed into a road, partly hitting a bus in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo. The light aircraft plummeted into a ...

We hate to break it to you, but the dirtiest spot on an airplane is the tray table where you eat your meals. According to a ...

Popular automakers — including Honda, Hyundai, and BMW — are racing to get their new flying car models on the market with a ...

French aerospace company Safran said the ENGINeUS 100 electric motor for aicraft is the first of its kind to get airworthiness certification from EASA ...

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