For the last fortnight, as drones and missiles have whistled through the skies above Iran and the Gulf, air traffic controllers have been shepherding passenger jets through safer but congested ...

A composition of multiple airplanes flying through a blue sky. tobiasjo/Getty Images On any given day, thousands of flights depart and land at airports across the U.S. and the world. Curious travelers ...

Most civilian planes do not need to regularly fly at the highest altitude they physically can—but this is sometimes the case ...

The unmistakable V-formation geese adopt in flight is more than a cool aerial trick. The entire flock benefits from upward air flowing off the lead bird’s wings, whose fellow fliers then get to save ...