The pause before takeoff is not hesitation, but a critical moment of engine verification and thrust stabilization.
The story behind the rocket of airliners.
You could call it a temple of thrust -- a building designed to handle the massive thrust these engines can kick up. Walls 3 feet thick and giant doors weighing hundreds of thousands of pounds enclose ...
US investigators probing a landing overrun which badly damaged a Falcon 10 have determined that the thrust-reversers did not deploy, because the jet was wrongly configured during approach. The inquiry ...
A model of the Safran M88 engine that powers the Dassault Rafale displayed at the Paris Air Show 2025. (Janes/Sam Wise) Safran Aircraft Engines is developing a higher-thrust version of the Safran M88 ...