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Boeing built two jets to answer two different questions — one flew clean, and one never landed vertically at full weight. Here is the...
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Boeing built two jets to answer two different questions — one flew clean, and one never landed vertically at full weight. Here is the...
Northrop built exactly two YF-23 prototypes for the competition that produced the F-22, and both still exist. I've stood next to each, a month...
In February 1970, a supersonic Air Force interceptor fell out of control over Montana and its pilot ejected to save his life. The jet...
Canada's review of its F-35 purchase was supposed to be about which fighter to fly. It has become something bigger: whether to expand the...
Northrop Grumman's first B-2 design was cleaner than the bomber the world eventually saw. The deep sawtooth along its trailing edge wasn't the engineers'...
On September 6, 1976, a disillusioned Soviet lieutenant landed his MiG-25 at a civilian airport in Japan and handed the West its first look...
No combat jet in service flies faster than Russia's MiG-31. It carries the Kinzhal hypersonic missile, reaches into Ukrainian skies, and probes NATO's borders....
In 1997, the Pentagon bought 21 Soviet MiG-29 fighters out from under Iran and flew them to Ohio in pieces. The bargain was real,...
In December 1958, the U.S. Navy chose the F-4 Phantom over a Vought fighter that was faster, lighter, and cheaper — the better airplane,...
France gave its next aircraft carrier a name meant to signal independence. The €10 billion ship will launch its fighters using three catapults it...