Lightning from thunderstorms doesn’t just strike the ground. Sometimes it goes up, forming a rarely seen type of electrical discharge known as a "gigantic jet" that connects the top of the clouds to ...

A massive lightning bolt that erupted from a cloud over Oklahoma and struck the edge of space in 2018 may be one of the most powerful such bolts ever recorded. That’s according to a new study in the ...

Finland may not be the first country that comes to mind when you think of an Air Force, but it is nonetheless expanding with ...

One of the world's most expensive and elusive fighter jets has gone missing, and officials are asking the public for any information leading to its recovery. On Sunday afternoon, two F-35 II Lightning ...

Last night, an F-35B Lightning II multirole fighter jet was reported missing in South Carolina. Reportedly, the pilot reported issues with the aircraft and ejected. Fortunately, the pilot did not ...

The F-35 is a true quarterback of the skies due to its unsurpassed interconnectivity capabilities. The F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter jet fleet achieved a major milestone this month, after its ...

A Marine Corps pilot safely ejected from a fighter jet over North Charleston on Sunday afternoon and the search for his missing aircraft was focused on two lakes north of North Charleston, military ...

The English Electric Lightning was Britain's first supersonic jet fighter. But it was more than just a test-bed plane designed to break the sound barrier; it's also a plane with a long and storied ...

Lighting strikes some 25 million times a year in the US, according to the National Weather Service, and kills an average of 47 people annually. Media Drum World via ZUMA Press SALINAS, Puerto Rico — ...

Vol. 100, No. 8, ANGLE of APPROACH: ACTIVATE's Strategies for Airborne Cloud and Aerosol Study (August 2019), pp. 1443-1452 (10 pages) Did you know that aircraft can cause lightning? Researchers began ...

Our study of aircraft lightning strikes determined that engines were flamed out in a total of 5% of the incidents involving turbojets, and in 8% of those involving turboprops. Propellers or spinners ...