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The titanium tooling had been destroyed, so a new SR-71 Blackbird was impossible. At Edwards, 16 test flights chased a phantom four-degree yaw until...
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The titanium tooling had been destroyed, so a new SR-71 Blackbird was impossible. At Edwards, 16 test flights chased a phantom four-degree yaw until...
A Cessna got 90 knots. A Beechcraft got 125. Then an F/A-18 out of NAS Lemoore came on the frequency and got 620, which...
The B-52 was flying an airborne alert route under Operation Chrome Dome, Strategic Air Command's program to keep nuclear-armed bombers in the air at...
Long Beach was built to escort the Navy's new nuclear carriers, which conventional escorts couldn't keep pace with on long deployments. Two C1W reactors...
The TF30 wanted smooth, straight airflow, which it got on the F-111 but not on a fighter pulling hard turns at high angles of...
Rather than design new naval reactors, France adapted two K15 pressurized-water reactors from its ballistic-missile submarines. That saved money but left the 858-foot, 42,000-ton...
On paper it was a mismatch. The F-22 brings stealth, supercruise, thrust vectoring, AESA radar, and sensor fusion built for first-look, first-shot, first-kill fights....
"Every man is scared in his first battle," George S. Patton told his troops, and he spent 1944 proving fear could be controlled.
In September 1918 a German machine gun shot George Patton through the thigh as he led the 304th Tank Brigade forward in the Meuse-Argonne....
In 1974 the Hughes Glomar Explorer told the world it was mining manganese nodules. The CIA had built the ship to lift the sunken...