Speed is usually sold as the ultimate advantage in air combat, the quality that lets a fighter jet sprint through danger and vanish before an enemy can react. Yet the faster an aircraft moves, the ...

Most fighter jets have what is called a stall speed – the slowest the jet can go before it falls out of the sky. However, there are two fighter jets currently in service that can get around their ...

The days of fighter jets outrunning ground defenses are long since past, and new aerial innovations are focused on stealth and sensor technology. But raw speed still has a place. Supersonic flight, ...

The story of the jet in British military aviation is often overshadowed. England deployed the Allied powers' first and only jet fighter during World War II. The Gloster Meteor made its operational ...

Pilots sometimes need to operate at slow speeds—during tight turns and landings, for instance—and good low-speed handling is the hallmark of a great fighter jet. People tend to associate raw speed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. f 22 raptor The skies of the 20th century were awash with the roars of fighter aircraft, and few, if any, nation produced as many ...