Eco-friendly and hypersonic—five times the speed of sound—sound like contradictions, but a Swiss aerospace startup took the first step towards combining the two, following a test flight of a prototype ...
Supersonic flight has historically been very fuel-intensive, one reason why the costly Concorde proved impractical to run, and this has made it more expensive. Two ways fighter jets maintain such ...
It’s nothing new to say that when a branch of the Armed Forces gets new leadership, changes occur, for better or worse. Usually, these are things like allowing ballcaps in uniform or changing the ...
As a space-system operator at Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora, Geoffrey LeClaire’s job is to defend the country from potential missile threats coming from all over the world. The mysterious giant ...
One of four F-35 fighter jets parked at the Vermont Air National Guard base at the Burlington International Airport in South Burlington on Wednesday, May 29, 2019. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger In ...
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The night erupts as CF-18s ignite their afterburners
Under night skies, RCAF CF-18 Hornets launch with afterburners that stretch far behind the aircraft like blowtorches. The darkness amplifies the intensity as each jet commits fully to the climb. These ...
After eighteen years of troubled and controversial development, the Lockheed F-35 Lightning stealth fighter may soon enter mass production, many of its bugs having been expensively squashed after ...
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