To those unfamiliar with formation flying, flight within a wingspan’s distance of another airplane looks eerily similar to an imminent collision. And collisions in airplanes generally don’t end well.

Watch expert formation training in a PA-28 as pilots maintain tight positions from takeoff all the way to landing. This is ...

Seeing airplanes fly in formation is an exciting experience at something like an air show, where demonstrations of a pilot’s skill and aircraft technology are on full display. But there are other ...

The roar of planes over Gainesville’s airspace that may have startled some this weekend was that of North American Trainer Association members flying in their vintage World War II-era planes. The ...

Watch as Team Raven, the precision prop display team, pulls off their signature "Pack of Cards" maneuver with flawless coordination. In this video, we capture the tight formations, graceful movements, ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The Airbus A350, seen here during a formation flight, will be used during the tests. Birds are the undisputed masters of ...

Airbus next year will begin testing a project it calls Fello'fly, which is designed to facilitate the introduction of formation flying on transatlantic routes as soon as 2025. The goal of the project ...

As we already reported, the Blue Angels, the U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Team, flew their final formation flight with the “Legacy” F/A-18C/D Hornet on Nov. 4, 2020. After flying the F/A-18C ...

The two Proba-3 spacecraft will build on the historic first to simulate and study a total solar eclipse. A pair of spacecraft have demonstrated ultra-precise formation flying in orbit for the first ...

Birds are the undisputed masters of aerodynamics. No matter how many supercomputers and wind tunnels scientists throw at solving flight's thorny calculations, they'll never match the perfection of ...