When a plane touches down and immediately soars back up, it might look odd. After all, planes are supposed to land, taxi, and unload passengers. You don't expect them to bounce off the runway like ...

A commercial airliner can weigh anywhere from 100,000 pounds to over a million pounds. It is astonishing how such gargantuan weight can not only take off from the ground, but also routinely fly long ...

When you look at gigantic aircraft carriers, like the Gerald Ford-class or Nimitz-class supercarriers, it's hard to imagine that there are planes that can't take off or land from the long strips of ...