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Back when my very first 19FortyFive article was published, discussing the legendary SR-71 Blackbird, several of our readers requested that I follow up by...
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Back when my very first 19FortyFive article was published, discussing the legendary SR-71 Blackbird, several of our readers requested that I follow up by...
Meet the Davy Crockett: The words “nuclear weapon” and “small” typically don’t go together – and no one would consider the devastation that such a...
Conceived as a beefier “battle carrier,” the Midway-class aircraft carrier featured an armored flight deck was more resilient and better able to recover from dive-bombing and kamikaze...
The original full name of the City of Los Angeles, California, is El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula,” which...
The SR-71 Blackbird, Still the world’s fastest air-breathing manned aircraft. That means Russia tried - and failed - to shoot it down.
The Nimitz is only the second nuclear-powered American carrier scheduled to be scrapped, the first one being the USS Enterprise (CVN-65), which was commissioned...
Sweden’s “Flying Barrel” – The Saab 29 Tunnan – The first swept-wing fighter to be built in Western Europe and clearly a child of...
Though it was actually the first operational space shuttle to be retired from NASA service, the Orbiter Vehicle-103 (OV-103) Space Shuttle Discovery certainly earned...
I always enjoy reading the works of my colleague Peter Suciu. But as they say, “If two people agree on everything, only one of...
During the SR-71 “Blackbird’s” more than 25-year-long service history – which ran from its first flight in 1964 through retirement in 1999 – not...