An F-16 fighter jet had an emergency while flying over Michigan and needed to drop two fuel tanks. One exploded in a lake, and the other landed in a parking lot.

The lightweight, rigid assembly is made of aluminum and brass, and has been certified to transfer water at a rate of 500 GPM between portable tanks. It's perfect for fire departments utilizing ...

With the two 600-gallon drop tanks under its wings, the F-35I would increase its total fuel capacity by approximately 40%, as each tank would add about 4,000 lb of fuel for a total of more than ...

A Turkish Air Force F-4 Phantom II fighter jet lost an external drop tank while flying over the capital, Ankara, on Sept. 4. While the incident only caused some minor damage on the ground, ...

A giant missile-looking item raised concern near the White House as it drove down the street on the back of a tractor trailer Thursday night, the same day Russia announced new missile systems.

On the evening of January 29, a catastrophic midair crash involving an Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines regional jet flying over Washington DC killed all 74 individuals on board ...

RAF Hawk jet flying at 420mph had to veer away to dodge head-on collision with gyrocopter carrying two people, report shows. RAF jet dodged a gyrocopter with just seconds to spare over the Lake ...

A new drop tank was soon found at an aircraft scrap dealer in Uxbridge, Ont., (he's got a line on 30 more in Nova Scotia) but Elcomb says life then got in the way and it wasn't until 1993 his ...

NEWTON, MA--(Marketwired - Mar 22, 2016) - Paytronix Systems, Inc., a leading provider of reward program solutions to restaurants and retailers, today announced a partnership with Drop Tank, a ...

The drop tank' is attached to the outside of the plane so that the pilot could just jettison it in case of fire or any such emergency. IAF officers inspect the drop tank debris on the farmland, as ...