As time has gone on, innovations in fighter jet technology have made “bubble cockpits” steadily more useful to pilots—and more expensive to maintain.

The days where the pilot was forced to interpret multiple data streams simultaneously are over; the aircraft performs the synthesis now. As anyone who has glanced inside the cockpit of an older ...

Fighter plane tails were dramatically reshaped after the advent of “fly-by-wire” controls, rendering the aircraft’s stability irrelevant. What’s in a tail? The tail of a fighter aircraft, specifically ...