Discover the origins and the major variants that made the Lightning a legend.

Unit insignia of U.S. Navy Air and Test Evaluation Squadron 9, based out of China Lake, California, was recently spotted on ...

More than 70 aircraft are struck by lightning every day. If you happen to be flying when a strike occurs, chances are you won’t feel a thing, thanks to lightning protection measures that are embedded ...

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 ...

Aurora, IL, November 6, 2009 — Lightning strike tests of a helicopter at Eurocopter’s Donauwörth facility have verified the accuracy of finite element analysis techniques for characterizing the ...

The raw performance of America's newest stealth fighter.

The U.S. Marine Corps operates 122 F-35B/C Lightning II aircraft introduced in 2016 as 5th-generation multirole stealth fighters. The MV-22 Osprey represents the largest single fleet with 310 active ...