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Why do fighter jet canopies look so weird?

As time has gone on, innovations in fighter jet technology have made “bubble cockpits” steadily more useful to pilots—and ...
Thrust-vectoring makes impossible maneuvers possible. The huge, powerful jets can perform extremely tight turns that ...
You don't need to have seen either "Top Gun" movie to know that fighter jets can flip upside down, unlike commercial aircraft. But the sight of an inverted jet doesn't mean physics has flipped on its ...
From the 1940s onwards, the US created some of the greatest fighter aircraft in the world. We will largely focus on the ...