Avenging the Concorde: Inside NASA’s quest to break the sound barrier
For more than seven decades, speed has been the hallmark of commercial aviation. But while we have the capability to push ...
Avenging the Concorde: Inside NASA’s Quest to Break the Sound Barrier and Hush the Sonic Boom
If NASA’s bet on its newest X-plane pays off, the long-nosed aircraft could revolutionize commercial aviation. That is, if ...
Flying taxis are on the horizon as aviation soars into a new frontier
When he was still a boy making the long, tedious trips between his school and his woodsy home in the mountains during the 1980s, JoeBen Bevirt began fantasizing about flying ...
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Russia Claims to Have Shot Down Ukrainian Su-27 'Flanker' on New Year's Day
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that it had succeeded in downing a Ukrainian Sukhoi Su-27 and other advanced ...
A-10s still flying in Iraq and Syria even as ‘Warthog’ units get put out to pasture
A-10s are loved by ground troops for their ability to fly “danger close” missions against enemy forces, but the aircraft will ...
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Blue Origin counts down to inaugural launch of New Glenn rocket
Commercial space company Blue Origin is ready to start the new year with the anticipated first launch of its 320-foot-tall ...
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Investing In Rhenium – The High Performance Aerospace Metal
The Importance Of Rare Elements It is easy to underestimate how some critical technologies are entirely reliant on ultra-rare elements barely known by most investors or even metallurgists. So, in ...
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Ukrainian Su-25 Seen Armed with AASM Hammer Bombs in Video for the First Time
The Ukrainian Su-25s started using the French-made AASM Hammer guided bombs in June 2024, as the stocks of Soviet-made ...
The Army once hoped jetpacks could give soldiers the edge in combat
In the late 1950s the U.S. Army began thinking that soldiers flying over battlefields was the way to victory in the future.
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69 Years Later, This NATO Aircraft Is Still Taking the Skies
As technology continues to advance at breakneck speed, some combat aircraft within NATO have stood the test of time, still ...
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SEE IT: China stuns with maiden flight of sixth-generation aircraft
The NGAD fighter jet is intended to replace the F-22 Raptor, a fifth-generation stealth combat aircraft that has been in service with the U.S. Air Force since the early 2000s. This new aircraft is ...