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The Ugliest Fighter Jet Ever Made - The Boeing F-32
The Boeing X-32 was an ambitious but unusual-looking contender in the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) competition—a program that ...
This Man Knows Way Too Much About Area 51—and the FBI Wants to Know Why
Rachel is a dusty, hardscrabble spot, located in the Joshua tree desert just outside Area 51, that highly guarded Air Force ...
Boom XB-1 Shatters The Sound Barrier, Reviving Civilian Supersonic Flight Hopes
Ever since the Concorde stopped flying, aviation buffs have dreamed of a civilian supersonic plane. Now there's been a ...
Why Can't An F-22 Raptor Land On An Aircraft Carrier?
We will never see a Raptor land on an aircraft carrier for two reasons. The first is the person behind the stick. USAF ...
The National Interest24d
The Lippisch P.13a was the Nazis’ Very Own Kamikaze Plane
In a military history context ... coming up with the notion of ramjet-powered delta wing interceptor aircraft; the hollow delta wing would have its interior shaped like a ramjet duct, whilst ...
Defense Mirror4d
France Delivers First Mirage 2000 Jets to Ukraine
The first batch of French Mirage 2000-5 fighter jets has arrived in Ukraine, flown by Ukrainian pilots who completed months ...
Contando Estrelas13d
Two former Spanish pilots talk about the Mirage III and Mirage F1 fighters
The first of these was the Dassault Mirage III, known as the "Plancheta" (Planchette) by its Spanish pilots due to its ...
KLCC12d
The company planning a successor to Concorde makes its first supersonic test
Denver-based Boom Technology's XB-1 demonstrator plane hit Mach 1.122 — 750 mph. It's the first independently developed ...
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The Unusual German Bomber from World War II with a Delta-Wing Shape, Considered a Possible Cause of Early UFO Sightings
U.S. military personnel transporting the German aircraft ... Both brothers continued designing aircraft, all based on their delta wing concept, until their deaths: Reimar in Argentina in 1994; Walter ...
The National Interest6d
The U.S. Navy’s A4 Skyhawk Was the Stuff of Legend
In the 1950s, in the coldest days of the Cold War, the United States Navy put out calls to its defense-industrial base to design a light attack aircraft ... A-4s had a delta-wing configuration ...