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The SR-71 Blackbird's tires were silver because the rubber was laced with powdered aluminum, inflated with nitrogen to 415 psi, cost $2,300 each, and...
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The SR-71 Blackbird's tires were silver because the rubber was laced with powdered aluminum, inflated with nitrogen to 415 psi, cost $2,300 each, and...
Lockheed's CL-1201 was a 5,375-ton flying aircraft carrier with a 1,120-foot wingspan, four nuclear-heated turbofans, 182 lift jets for takeoff, and the endurance to...
Retired SR-71 pilot Maury Rosenberg told Aviation Geek Club the colonel asked whether any Air Force regulation banned approaches at Sacramento, then ordered one...
Designed in 1941 to strike Europe from the Western Hemisphere if Britain fell, the B-36 was saved by Gen. Hap Arnold the day Hiroshima...
Reactivating USS New Jersey alone was estimated at $247 million in 1982, about $857 million today. The battleships got AN/SPS-49 radars, SLQ-32 electronic warfare...
Ben Rich's paper reshaped the Blackbird's forward fuselage with blunter chines, a rounded underside and a longer nose for radar to fit the 14-foot...
Gen. Curtis LeMay and SAC commander Gen. Thomas Power both took interest in the RB-12 in 1961, but the XB-70's backers inside the Air...
Iran's armor still mixes US M60s, British Chieftains, hundreds of T-72S and the homegrown Zulfiqar. A reported $10 billion Russian package never produced a...
No new parts may be built under the bill, so F-14D Tomcat restorers must work from Navy stocks. The F110 engines are the easy...
A lit match dropped into a bucket of JP-7 went out. The fuel dissolved hose linings, demanded its own fleet of 56 modified KC-135Q...