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Why do fighter jet canopies look so weird?

As time has gone on, innovations in fighter jet technology have made “bubble cockpits” steadily more useful to pilots—and more expensive to maintain.
Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, India's celebrated astronaut and test pilot, will return to the cockpit of a fighter jet in December as part of his ongoing training for the Indian Space Research ...
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Every air force needs its own nimble, lightweight, single-engine fighter jet. For the United States, that's Lockheed Martin's F-16 Fighting Eagle, a fighter jet that's been around since 1979. For ...
The refinement of the fighter jet seems to have happened at a blistering pace. The world's first operative fighter jet was Germany's Messerschmitt Me 262, which took to the skies during the latter ...