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 ...

Many of the frontline fighter jet families designed and initially built in the 1970s remain in use today. These include the F-16 Fighting Falcon, the F-15 Eagle family, the European Panavia Tornado, ...

You don't need to have seen either "Top Gun" movie to know that fighter jets can flip upside down, unlike commercial aircraft. But the sight of an inverted jet doesn't mean physics has flipped on its ...