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The F-22 Raptor is famous for its stealth, but its two Pratt & Whitney F119 engines are just as remarkable: 70,000 pounds of combined...
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The F-22 Raptor is famous for its stealth, but its two Pratt & Whitney F119 engines are just as remarkable: 70,000 pounds of combined...
Before the SR-71 Blackbird ever flew, a Soviet aviation designer named Pavel Tsybin was already trying to build a spy plane to beat it...
The B-1B was supposed to reach the boneyard by 2030. Instead the Air Force is reviving external hardpoints the bomber has carried unused since...
The F-16XL took a standard F-16, gave it a sweeping cranked-arrow delta wing nearly twice the size, and turned it into a deep-strike fighter...
A U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress crashed shortly after takeoff at Edwards Air Force Base in California at 11:20 a.m. Monday, sending up a...
China has been flying two sixth-generation fighter prototypes — the three-engine J-36 and the J-50 — in open daylight for 18 months, while America's...
America's F-47 sixth-generation fighter nearly died in 2024 over a $300-million-per-jet price tag. Now Boeing is building the first one in St. Louis against...
On April 23, 1991, the Air Force picked the YF-22 over a competitor that was stealthier, faster, and longer-legged. Thirty-five years later, every sixth-generation...
I’ve been pestering Boeing for a few months now to get inside their F-15EX Eagle II factory and give you, our loyal readers, a...
Summary and Key Points on the X-20: Years before the Space Shuttle, the US Air Force had designed a reusable, piloted spaceplane that launched...