Seventh generation fighters are being designed around a simple, unsettling premise: the human body is becoming the limiting factor in air combat. As engineers push toward hypersonic speeds, ...

Flight simulators can effectively aid pilot training, but require "structured playtime" – practicing syllabus maneuvers with appropriate controls and acknowledging limitations. Optimizing simulator ...

Flying quiet was a bit of a treat. His call sign (bestowed after his first solo) is "Puffin," like the bird. The name was chosen because he had expressed his doubts he could learn to fly-and one of ...

A former Alaska Airlines pilot who tried to shut down the engines of a packed 2023 flight after taking psychedelic mushrooms forced crews into tense moments captured on dramatic cockpit audio. Joseph ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Cockpit audio has been released after a now-former Alaska Airlines pilot tried to shut off the engine on a passenger flight in 2023. In October 2023, Joseph Emerson was riding ...

Chilling cockpit audio and dashcam footage sheds new light on the moments former Alaska Airlines pilot Joseph Emerson attempted to bring down a commercial flight with 84 people on board by shutting ...

Newly released cockpit audio, as well as dashcam footage, photos, videos, and police reports, detail the October 2023 incident aboard Horizon Flight 2059, when a former off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot, ...

NASA just shared something aviation fans have been waiting for. The agency released a thrilling cockpit view of the first flight of its experimental X-59 supersonic jet, giving us a close look at a ...