5 Of The Highest-Flying Military Jets To Ever Hit The Skies
Commercial planes can fly up to eight miles high, but that pales in comparison with the highest-soaring military planes, ...
YF-12 Interceptor: The US's Cold War Mach 3+ Defense Against Soviet Bombers
The Soviet Union continued to invest heavily in the development of capable next-generation fighter and bomber aircraft ...
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JA-37 Viggen: The Fighter That Could Have Shot Down an SR-71 Blackbird
The legendary SR-71 Blackbird, capable of reaching Mach 3.0, set speed records and flew high-risk reconnaissance missions ...
How NASA’s X-59 recycled decades-old plane parts to make silent supersonic flight possible
The new supersonic plane breaks the mold with a radical new shape and digital cockpit, but it relies on ancient parts to make ...
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Local veteran reached 10,000th flight hour aboard legendary Cold War aircraft
Lockheed's SR-71 Blackbird -- a smoothly contoured, supersonic aircraft -- for decades captured the imagination of youths ...
5 Fast Facts On Auto GCAS: Lifesaving Tech On US Air Force F-16 & F-35 Fighter Jets
Piloting a fighter jet is intense. If a pilots loses consciousness Auto GCAS keeps pilots safe until they are ready to ...
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Russia's MiG-25 Foxbat Freaked the Air Force Out (Until They Flew It)
The Soviet MiG-25 "Foxbat" was a high-speed interceptor designed to counter U.S. spy planes like the U-2 and SR-71. With ...
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SR-72: The U.S. Air Force's 'New Hypersonic Bomber' Could Be Real
The SR-72, developed by Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, is a proposed hypersonic reconnaissance aircraft aimed to fill critical intelligence gaps in the U.S. Air Force. Expected to fly in the mid-2020s ...