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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...
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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...
Russia’s Attempt to Build An SR-71 – During the Cold War, the Lockheed SR-71 “Blackbird” earned a reputation that no aircraft could catch it, and it could even outrun...
The Germans – their current pacifistic culture notwithstanding – have a long history of innovation when it comes to weaponry. Everything from the first...
Was the B-24 bomber the best bomber in all of World War II? What about the B-17 or B-29? Here is the story of...
A Truly Legendary F/A-18 is in the Collection of the Air And Space Museum: The United States Navy’s McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet proved to...
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...
Military Expert and acclaimed defense journalist Alex Hollings explains why the F-16FSW concept never was able to leave the drawing board and fly high...
Flying Aircraft Carrier Concept Failure – The mighty aircraft carrier still rules the world’s oceans as the top warship that to many seem completely...
Spiders, in spite of their frightful reputation propagated by nursery rhymes like “Little Miss Muffet” and popular movies like Arachnophobia, are, by and large,...
The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter was a Cold War era single-engine supersonic interceptor. Introduced to the US Air Force in 1958, the F-104 was a member of the “Century...