While the engines in propeller-powered aircraft generally achieve their maximum efficiency at much lower speeds and altitudes, jet engines achieve maximum efficiency at speeds close to or even well above the speed of sound. Check out this spectacular landing in NYC's JFK Airport.

A plane powered by the sun's rays landed in Hawaii on Friday, July 3, 2015 after a record-breaking five-day journey across the Pacific Ocean from Japan.

Charlie Champion reveals the Airbus plane of the future.

On December 21, 2015, SpaceX landed back their space ship base component, saving millions of dollars for future missions. Elon Musk’s company released a new video of their recent reusable rocket landing at Cape Canaveral. It also announced that it will try once again to land the rocket on a sea bar

Over the last decade, designer Luca Iaconi-Stewart has been building an incredibly detailed model of a Boeing 777, right down to the tiny seats and moving landing gear, using only paper folders and glue.

50 years ago, NASA’s Apollo 11 mission changed our world and ideas of what is possible by successfully landing humans on the surface of the moon⁠—and bringing them home safely⁠—for the first time in history. Today’s video Doodle celebrates this moment of human achievement by taking us through the jo

This exclusive time-lapse footage shows an entire U-2 plane being disassembled by Lockheed Martin technicians. Every U-2 plane gets revised part by part, repainted, and reassembled every 4,700 flight hours. More than 40,000 rivets and 1,800 individual parts, plus the fuselage, get inspected—and repa

Neil Armstrong presents a Google moon video together with original footage taken from the Eagle module during his landing 20 July 1969. Captured from a webcast from the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology Hearing on NASA Human Spaceflight 22 Sep 2011.
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A Boeing 767 departing from newark and arriving in Warsaw Poland, landed without landing gear. All passengers were safe.

Airbus has released an updated version of their 2050 concept plane, with transparent deck, smart materials and holographic entertainment.