Studies show that about 90 percent of the lightning strikes to aircraft are thought to be initiated by the presence of the aircraft itself. [Credit: iStock ] Question: A friend of mine was flying a ...

They combined the cockpit from an F-35, which experienced an engine failure on the runway, with the aft fuselage from another F-35, which suffered a nose gear failure. On Jan. 24, 2025, our friend and ...

What steps can be taken to mitigate lightning strikes on future aircraft designs? This is what a recent study published in IEEE Access hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated new ...

A video of an "extremely rare" view of a gigantic jet across a night sky has gone viral on Instagram. The spectacular scene was captured from the cockpit by pilot Alexander Torres, who shared a video ...

A video of a pilot landing a plane in stormy weather conditions has gone viral on TikTok. The clip, which so far has received over 101,000 views, was posted July 12 by @captainrick79, a pilot who ...

It's a flashy follow-up to a 2015 lightning study. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An astronaut and his new camera will peer at ...

With a high-speed camera and the luck of being in the right place at the right time, physicist Marcelo Saba, a researcher at Brazil’s National Space Research Institute (INPE), and PhD candidate Diego ...