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Between 1992 and 1999, Boeing’s Phantom Works flew a tailless, alien-looking stealth demonstrator at Area 51: the Bird of Prey. It used landing gear...
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Between 1992 and 1999, Boeing’s Phantom Works flew a tailless, alien-looking stealth demonstrator at Area 51: the Bird of Prey. It used landing gear...
The F-22 Raptor is the most expensive fighter the US has ever bought, and the reason is arithmetic. The Air Force planned 750 jets,...
In 1972 Grumman painted an F-14 Tomcat in Air Force markings and pitched it to replace the F-106 as North America’s bomber interceptor, with...
The F-35 vs. Gripen debate keeps coming back in Canada, and some suggest the Royal Canadian Air Force fly both. Retired Lieutenant-General Alain Pelletier,...
The Air Force retired the SR-71 Blackbird in January 1990, officially over cost. A new memoir by Colonel Richard “Butch” Sheffield, a retired Blackbird...
Before Lockheed drew the SR-71, Soviet designer Pavel Tsybin was already sketching a Mach 3 spy plane. His RSR, for jet strategic reconnaissance, began...
Kelly Johnson’s YF-12A took the A-12 Oxcart airframe, added a second crewman, the Hughes AN/ASG-18 pulse-Doppler radar and bays for AIM-47A Falcon missiles, and...
Lockheed once sketched a carrier-based Blackbird. The A-12CB would have left an aircraft carrier deck with Rocketdyne boosters borrowed from the F-104G zero-length-launch program,...
The F-22 Raptor was built to fight over Europe, and its 500-to-590-nautical-mile combat radius shows it. Against a Chinese arsenal that can range every...
The SR-71 Blackbird flew above 80,000 feet at Mach 3, high and fast enough that Soviet missiles and interceptors could not reach it. On...