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On July 21, 1921, Brigadier General Billy Mitchell sank the captured German battleship Ostfriesland with bombs dropped from aircraft, and the age of the...
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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...
It took two or three seconds. Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird test pilot Bill Weaver was at Mach 3.18 and 79,000 feet, in a 35-degree bank,...
There are nineteen B-2 Spirits in the world and roughly ten to twelve of them are fully mission capable on any given day. In...
Japan's F-15J is a licence-built Eagle and it was never a complete one. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries assembled most of the fleet in Japan, working...