Daily Archives: Oct 9, 2025
5 Disastrous Fighter Jets That Became Flying Coffins
What makes an air fighter atrocious? It is not necessarily ungainly looks or an unconventional design. The worst fighter aircraft are those that accomplished no mission at all, endangered their pilots, or collapsed under the weight of their engineering claims. In war aircraft, where life and death balance on...
Boeing’s F‑47: The Stealth Superfighter Poised to Redefine Air Combat
"Modernization is about deploying a set of assets that create particular challenges for the enemy," General David W. Allvin stated earlier this year. That spirit is now encapsulated in the Boeing F‑47, the U.S. first sixth-generation crewed fighter aircraft, a platform designed to take giant strides well beyond the...
Ancient Engineering Secrets That Could Rewrite Human History
It starts with a science fiction-sounding question based on hard geology: if it had existed and vanished millions of years ago, would we ever know that a highly developed civilisation had existed? The Silurian Hypothesis, put forth by climatologist Gavin Schmidt and astrophysicist Adam Frank, puts this uncomfortable idea...
