The F-47’s illustrated features might have been intended as red herrings—or had their proportions exaggerated—all along. That ...

What a Mess: While fighter jets are iconic ... s rear thrust engine and two lift turbofans made the jet deathly difficult to ...

Enemy fighters sporting the color schemes of Russian ... of those capabilities crammed inside a single fuselage. The lift fan design used in the X-35 connected the engine at the back of the ...

Aurora’s SPRINT design uses a blended-wing aerostructure that internally houses two jet engines to provide forward thrust and rotor fans to provide vertical lift. A rendering of the experimental ...

The F-35B Lightning II is the Marine Corps variant of the Joint Strike Fighter and features a vertical lift fan and pivoting engine nozzle to deliver vertical landing and short takeoff capability ...

Early ground effect testing has demonstrated its fan ... lift system. DARPA is running the SPRINT program jointly with the US Special Operations Command. The stated goal is "to design, build ...