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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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