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Why the X-36 deserves a place in aviation history: In the collection of the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air...
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Why the X-36 deserves a place in aviation history: In the collection of the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air...
When looking at the developmental history of India’s homegrown HAL Tejas fighter plane, you could see a glass half-empty or one half-full. From the...
Breaking the sound barrier is pretty routine nowadays. Most fighter jets, including all of the latest fighters, can do it. In fact, a few...
Meet the X-15: Before Mercury astronauts rode Redstones into orbit, before Gemini astronauts rendezvoused and docked, and before Apollo astronauts drove around the lunar...
The X-15, SR-71, and MiG-25 were all speed demons: Unfortunately for aviation enthusiasts, the world’s fastest-ever jets are all mothballed, retired, and gathering dust...
Aahh, the dear old SR-71 Blackbird, subject of my first-ever article for 19FortyFive. Arguably the crowning achievement of aerospace engineering genius Clarence “Kelly” Johnson...
Hypersonic everything is all the rage these days as Russia, China, and the United States all try to master the technology. And yet, the...
Yes, we all know and love the F-14 Tomcat, thanks to its two appearances in the Top Gun movies. However, the F-14 initially had...
In 1985, an administrative sergeant assigned to America’s SR-71 unit attempted to sell top-secret intelligence about the airframe to the Soviets. Ultimately, the sergeant...
The XB-70 was a bomber that, on paper, looked way ahead of its time with impressive speeds and stats that would have made Russia...