On December 8, 1963, Pan Am Flight 214 was holding over Maryland, waiting for a storm to clear before landing in Philadelphia. At 8:42 p.m., lightning struck the Boeing 707’s left wing, igniting fuel ...

What steps can be taken to mitigate lightning strikes on future aircraft designs? This is what a recent study published in IEEE Access hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated new ...

Thunderstorms are often also accompanied by heightened turbulence, which can be uncomfortable and frightening for passengers, ...

Lockheed Martin said it set a record delivering 191 F-35 Lightning II jets in 2025, clearing backlog deliveries in the process, with a global fleet that now counts 1,300 aircraft. Lockheed Martin ...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made a new physics-based tool that can predict how lightning interacts with different airplane designs to help engineers better ...

Video shows what appeared to be two bolts of lightning hitting an Emirates plane on the tarmac in New Zealand Wednesday. Further examination showed it was a pair of near-misses. It happened Wednesday ...

The fuselage is used across all three variants of the F-35 aircraft and assembled at Northrop’s Integrated Assembly Line in ...