Ejector seats are designed to be as safe as possible—but there are obvious inherent dangers in a rocket-powered ejection from a fast-moving aircraft. Ejecting from a fighter jet is a wrenchingly ...

A Taiwanese Air Force F-16V fighter jet crashed into the sea during a routine training mission off the northeastern coast of ...

TAIPEI -- Taiwan's air force on Tuesday said it suspected a pilot had ejected from an F-16V fighter jet at 7:29 pm local time during a routine training mission in the island's eastern Hualien county ...

Early bombers relied on gravity to release their weapons, but modern fighter jets travel too fast for that approach to work ...

As time has gone on, innovations in fighter jet technology have made “bubble cockpits” steadily more useful to pilots—and ...

A Navy jet that crashed within striking distance of homes in February climbed to about 8,000 feet in the air with no one on board after its pilots ejected, Team 10 has learned.

A ROCAF F-16V crashed off Hualien during a night training flight. The pilot remains missing as SAR crews search in rough seas ...

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The refinement of the fighter jet seems to have happened at a blistering pace. The world's first operative fighter jet was Germany's Messerschmitt Me 262, which took to the skies during the latter ...

While it might be tempting for the general public to refer to any military aircraft that flies fast as a fighter jet, there are a couple that don't exactly fit that designation. The legendary A-10 ...