A commercial airliner can weigh anywhere from 100,000 pounds to over a million pounds. It is astonishing how such gargantuan weight can not only take off from the ground, but also routinely fly long ...

When a plane touches down and immediately soars back up, it might look odd. After all, planes are supposed to land, taxi, and unload passengers. You don't expect them to bounce off the runway like ...

Tilted landing gears, while engineered specifically for the express purpose of helping jets land and take off from runways, might look odd, like the wheels on the wings of a B-52 bomber. If you've ...

A United Airlines flight out of Dulles International Airport made an emergency landing after one of the plane’s engines ...