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NASA's Hyper-X program ran 8 years and cost roughly $230,000,000, and it produced exactly 3 flights of the X-43A. The first ended with the...
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NASA's Hyper-X program ran 8 years and cost roughly $230,000,000, and it produced exactly 3 flights of the X-43A. The first ended with the...
General Dynamics took the lightweight F-16, gave it a cranked-arrow delta wing with 120 percent more area, raised the hardpoint count from 9 to...
The F-22 Raptor entered service in 2005 and the line shut down in 2011, which means every dollar of the $10,900,000,000 modernization contract Lockheed...
On July 21, 1921, Brigadier General Billy Mitchell sank the captured German battleship Ostfriesland with bombs dropped from aircraft, and the age of the...
When the Soviet Union broke up, Moldova found itself with 34 MiG-29 Fulcrums and no money to maintain them, no pilots to spare and...
Tail number 61-7974 was tracking Soviet naval activity off the Kola Peninsula at Mach 3 and 83,000 feet when the right engine unstarted. The...
The fastest air-breathing aircraft ever flown was twelve feet long, weighed about 3,300 pounds, carried nobody, and was designed to be thrown away. On...
Boeing's X-32 first flew in September 2000 and made 66 flights in four months, demonstrating in-flight refuelling, weapons bay operations and supersonic flight in...
YF-23: The familiar version of this story is that the Air Force chose comfort over vision. It is emotionally satisfying and it explains almost...
The People's Liberation Army Air Force operates around 300 J-20 stealth fighters, is accelerating the J-35, and has two sixth-generation designs in development that...