At the very crux of engineering is the desire to problem-solve, optimize, and squeeze out every bit of efficiency possible from the system being built. Aircraft design and aeronautical engineering ...

April 8, 2006 One of the greatest difficulties with vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft is that they invariably don’t have high speed as one of their attributes. The principles are well ...

Back in the 1950s, the US Navy was looking for a way to give destroyers and frigates an effective way to take on enemy air attacks—a sort of “first responder” aircraft that could take to the skies to ...