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Why do fighter jet canopies look so weird?
As time has gone on, innovations in fighter jet technology have made “bubble cockpits” steadily more useful to pilots—and ...
Ace Combat in real life? This folding VTOL foam aircraft gives you a first-person view from inside a tiny toy fighter jet ...
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Flying in first person: New RC aircraft brings first-person cockpit views to pilots
Flywing built the X-Wing Fighter as a VTOL aircraft centered on first-person flight. A forward-facing camera streams live ...
What looks like a flying egg, was never designed to land, and was so light it could be thrown off course by its own guns?
A photographer captured the terrifying moment a seagull smashed into the cockpit of a military jet. Aviation photographer Javier Alonso de Medina Salguero unknowingly captured the moment the pilot of ...
National Interest on MSN
Being a Fighter Pilot Is a Stressful Job—Literally
Pilots regularly grapple with high “G forces” while in the cockpit—forces that the human body is not meant to handle, and that lead to stress-related injuries over time.
Every air force needs its own nimble, lightweight, single-engine fighter jet. For the United States, that's Lockheed Martin's F-16 Fighting Eagle, a fighter jet that's been around since 1979. For ...
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