Cockpit doors are now built with a bullet-resistant layer of protection for the crew. While the term 'bulletproof' can be ...

Many other aircraft at the time required a flight ... The breakthrough of glass cockpit technology and EICAS made the role of the flight engineer redundant, as the computers did most of the ...

The exterior of the SR-71 reached temperatures that would well overcook a pizza in milliseconds. This heat could cause ...

The T-45A aircraft, the Navy version of the British ... is built around a new digital "glass cockpit" design.

TASS/. The composite material developed for the cockpit glass of Russian warplanes to cut significantly their visibility for enemy radars is already used in the domestic aircraft-building industry ...

Discover more of our stories here Following 9/11, airlines quickly reinforced cockpit doors made of bullet-resistant glass or sturdy metal bars. In 2003, the US noted that all commercial aircraft ...