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For F-4 Phantom crews, the saying went that two ejections ended a flying career, not as punishment but because the G-forces of the seat...
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For F-4 Phantom crews, the saying went that two ejections ended a flying career, not as punishment but because the G-forces of the seat...
China marked the 15th anniversary of the J-20’s maiden flight on January 11, 2026, by announcing that the two-seat J-20S Mighty Dragon is meant...
Every SR-71 “flaw” was a trade. Its 80-percent-titanium airframe stretched by inches at 2,000-plus mph, so 1960s sealants couldn’t hold the integral tanks shut...
Canada’s review of the F-35 buy, begun in March 2025 amid Trump’s tariff threats, has a problem bigger than which jet to pick: pilots.
Satellite imagery obtained by Aviation Week shows the SR-71A displayed at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards has been moved, and NASA has...
In 2013 Lockheed Martin publicly outlined the SR-72, an unmanned or optionally piloted Mach 6 successor to the SR-71 using a turbine-to-scramjet combined-cycle engine,...
Nobody walked off the street into an SR-71 cockpit. Candidates were already seasoned jet pilots, and the transition to qualified Blackbird pilot or reconnaissance...
The SR-71 Blackbird cruised above Mach 3 and 80,000 feet, flew over Vietnam, North Korea and the Middle East, and never lost an aircraft...
The Tu-160 “White Swan” first flew on December 18, 1981, and remains the heaviest combat aircraft ever built: 275 metric tons, variable-sweep wings, Mach...
The Air Force Test Center at Edwards is running developmental and operational testing of Boeing’s F-47 at the same time, feeding digital models of...