Most people believe that the Grumman F-14 Tomcat was the final US Navy fighter aircraft to use traditional 'manual' flight controls that rely on mechanical assemblies. Both the Lockheed Martin F-35C ...
Modern fighter jets are very loud. They can blast between 140 and 153 decibels of noise on takeoff when they use their afterburners, which is enough to burst a person's eardrums if they're at close ...