The first plane to break the sound barrier in level flight was a rocket plane – the Bell X-1 in 1948. The North American X-15 broke many speed and altitude records in the 1960s and pioneered …

The essential components of an airplane are a wing system to sustain it in flight, tail surfaces to stabilize the wings, movable surfaces to control the attitude of the plane in flight, and a power plant to provide …

Dec 26, 2025 · A 15th person has died as a result of the UPS plane crash in Kentucky in November. Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg announced the updated death toll on Thursday. "It is with great …

Dec 25, 2025 · A plane from Mexico was on a medical mission on Monday when it crashed into Galveston Bay, and two men on the water that day helped save two lives.

If a flight takes a plane across several countries, it passes through various ACCs, each monitored by different air traffic controllers who give instructions to the pilot as needed.

Mar 11, 2025 · A plane's engines are designed to move it forward at high speed. That makes air flow rapidly over the wings, which throw the air down toward the ground, generating an upward force …

Oct 4, 2022 · The wings generate most of the lift to hold the plane in the air. To generate lift, the airplane must be pushed through the air. The air resists the motion in the form of aerodynamic drag. Modern …

An airplane, or aeroplane, informally plane, is a fixed-wing aircraft that is propelled forward by thrust from a jet engine, propeller, or rocket engine. Airpla...

Dec 26, 2025 · The death toll from a UPS cargo plane crash in Louisville, Kentucky, has risen to 15 after a man injured in the incident died weeks later on Christmas Day, officials said.

The 2023 action thriller Plane stars Gerard Butler, Mike Colter, and Tony Goldwyn. Directed by Jean-François Richet (Blood Father), the film was written by Charles Cumming (The Day of the Jackal) …