While it's fairly common knowledge to enthusiasts that the first jet fighter was the speedy Messerschmitt Me 262, introduced in 1944, the invention of the turbine jet itself may not be as widely known ...

Eighty-five years ago today, the first prototype turbojet aircraft, the He 178, was test-flown only days before Germany invaded Poland to start World War II. The plane could fly for only six minutes.

SINGAPORE—China conducted the first flight of a domestically developed 3D-printed turbojet engine in November 2025, marking a ...

While the World War II era was the first time we saw fighter jet engines take to the sky, there were some earlier operational prototypes. Anselm Franz, an Austrian engineer, designed and fitted one of ...