Aerospace & Defense
NASA’s X-43A, a 12-foot unmanned lifting body with a hydrogen scramjet and no moving parts, flew three times: the first was blown up in...
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NASA’s X-43A, a 12-foot unmanned lifting body with a hydrogen scramjet and no moving parts, flew three times: the first was blown up in...
Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-60), 81,101 tons and 280,000 shaft horsepower, served from 1956 to 1994: she took a flight of F-8 Crusaders from...
Its cavities may be packed with sand and water, its engines have sat for 30-plus years, and the spare parts were disposed of in...
The right SR-71 afterburner attachment section blew out on a low pass over the runway, driving flame into the nacelle and peeling titanium off...
Through 1943, unescorted American daylight bombing over Germany was failing. The first Merlin-powered Mustangs reached Europe with the 354th Fighter Group in December 1943,...
Mikoyan began work in 1983, as the Pentagon's Advanced Tactical Fighter program headed toward the YF-22 and YF-23. The Soviet Air Force wanted supercruise,...
The SR-71 Blackbird shock wave ran from Indiana to New York. A Penn State expert said meteorite. The Air Force let that stand for...
For the SR-71 Blackbird, Corning spent years and millions developing solid quartz windows because ordinary glass would have distorted. The wing skin was deliberately...
It took two or three seconds. Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird test pilot Bill Weaver was at Mach 3.18 and 79,000 feet, in a 35-degree bank,...
No Soviet aircraft frightened Western planners like the MiG-25 Foxbat. On paper it was capable of Mach 3.2, powered by two Tumansky R-15B-300 afterburning...