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What set X-20 Dyna-Soar apart from its contemporaries, Mercury, Gemini, and the Soviet Vostok, was that it wasn't a capsule.
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What set X-20 Dyna-Soar apart from its contemporaries, Mercury, Gemini, and the Soviet Vostok, was that it wasn't a capsule.
The X-30 was to take off from a commercial runway like an ordinary aircraft, accelerate toward Mach 25, enter low-Earth orbit, and land conventionally...
February's B-2 and carrier-fighter drill off California was a rehearsal. In June a Spirit fired a live anti-ship missile and put the ex-USS Juneau...
Despite the novel ideas behind the RAH-66, the project ultimately never got past the prototype stage. The program simply did not offer enough bang...
Vice Adm. Richard Dunleavy publicly questioned whether the Navy needed the F-22 Sea Raptor at all, citing its weight, as Cold War defense budgets...
The closest the F-15SE Silent Eagle ever came to an actual order was South Korea's F-X Phase III competition, a roughly $7.3 billion program...
Built in 102 days after North American refused to license-build P-40s, the Mustang became the war's decisive fighter the day the Merlin went in....
What if the F-22 Raptor stealth fighter could be turned into a bomber? That was the idea behind the FB-22. It never occurred, and...
How many B-21 Raider bombers? There’s also the question of how quickly Northrop Grumman’s production facilities and workers would be able to churn out...
Avro Canada VZ-9 is a real-life flying saucer you can see right now at the National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton,...