Unlike airliners, fighter aircrafts routinely experience multiple times the force of gravity, especially while maneuvering aggressively. These intense G-forces place enormous strain on the human body, ...

Modern fighter jets are very loud. They can blast between 140 and 153 decibels of noise on takeoff when they use their afterburners, which is enough to burst a person's eardrums if they're at close ...

In 1988, British Aerospace test pilot Keith Hartley carried out one of the most extraordinary flight tests ever performed on the Panavia Tornado. Flying a pre-production aircraft, Hartley deliberately ...