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The titanium tooling had been destroyed, so a new SR-71 Blackbird was impossible. At Edwards, 16 test flights chased a phantom four-degree yaw until...
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The titanium tooling had been destroyed, so a new SR-71 Blackbird was impossible. At Edwards, 16 test flights chased a phantom four-degree yaw until...
Proposed in 1955 under Operation Question Mark, the 25-ton TV-8 could float across rivers on its sealed turret. Its reactor would have forced constant...
Kelly Johnson's idea was to turn the CIA's A-12 into a missile truck that could sit above 80,000 feet at three times the speed...
The right SR-71 afterburner attachment section blew out on a low pass over the runway, driving flame into the nacelle and peeling titanium off...
The 1989 requirement was to defeat the CRISAT target — 1.6mm of titanium backed by twenty layers of Kevlar — which no pistol cartridge...
Ford was the Navy's first new carrier design in more than four decades, and it introduced 23 new technologies. Electromagnetic catapults replaced steam, new...
What Patton never advertised was the dyslexia historians now believe he had, a condition that hurt his grades at the Virginia Military Institute and...
Long Beach was built to escort the Navy's new nuclear carriers, which conventional escorts couldn't keep pace with on long deployments. Two C1W reactors...
The USS Gerald R. Ford was the first carrier in the world with electromagnetic catapults, advanced arresting gear, and magnetic weapons elevators, and it...
The YF-23's diamond wing, V-tails, S-duct intakes, and flat exhausts made it stealthier, and in testing it posted a higher top speed, faster supercruise,...