Interesting Engineering on MSN

5 jet engines, 1 human: This is the future of military boarding

Gravity Industries’ Jet Suit uses five micro gas-turbine engines to generate over 1,000 horsepower, allowing a pilot to fly using pure thrust vectoring from arm-mounted jets. Developed by former Royal ...
National Security Journal on MSN

An SR-71 Blackbird totally disintegrated at Mach 3 and the pilot was ripped out of the aircraft

Harrison Kass, an attorney and former Air Force pilot selectee, evaluates the harrowing 1966 "Mach 3 Breakup" of an SR-71 Blackbird, a survival story that redefined high-altitude flight safety.