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Supersonic Comeback? Meet NASA’s X-59 Quesst

NASA and Skunk Works Unveils Experimental Vehicle That Turns Sonic Booms Into Sonic Thumps Are we on the verge of a commercial supersonic comeback? America’s space agency is determined to…

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LMXT: Lockheed’s Newest Tanker Proposal Built on the A330 MRTT

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Ben & Jerry’s Co-Founder Arrested for Blasting Sound of F-35 From Giant Speakers in Protest

Burlington, Vermont-based Ben & Jerry’s is well-known for Caramel Chocolate Cheesecake Truffle and Cherry Garcia ice cream, among other awesome flavors. The popular ice cream company founders are also known…

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Space

Lockheed Wants to Put a Base Camp in Orbit Around Mars, Complete With Lander

Speaking at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Adelaide, Australia, officials with Lockheed Martin today revealed their plans for what they believe is a sound, safe and compelling mission architecture…

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India Fighter Competition Heads Up, F-16 Production In Fort Worth To End

Lockheed Martin is in heated competition with Saab in Sweden to supply the IAF with single-engine fighter planes to amp up the country’s combat capabilities. The Indian government has set…

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Space

NASA Wants to Put a Deep Space Gateway in Lunar Orbit

This decade is a time of transition for the U.S. space program. NASA is fostering development of commercial services for orbital spaceflight to launch both the agency’s resupply and (soon) crewed…

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NASA X-Plane Will Make Supersonic Passenger Travel Over Land a Reality

America’s brightest aviation minds once designed, built and flew all kinds of experimental aircraft. Short wings, long wing, delta-shaped and forward swept, big tails and no tails, high speed and low…

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The C-130J: The High-Tech Millennial Grandchild Of The 60-Plus Year Old Hercules

Meet the Latest and Most Advanced Generation of the Ageless Herc On 5 April 1996 the prototype Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules flew for the first time. While the J…

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Military

We Take A Look At The Jets Competing To Replace The T-38

Beginning in 2003, the US Air Force’s Air Education and Training Command (AETC) set its sights on replacing the T-38 Advanced Jet Trainer. The T-38 first flew in 1959, and…

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C-5 Uses Every Inch Of Runway for a Spectacularly Dusty Takeoff

In the C-5, no takeoff is uneventful. Those jurassic TF-39 turbofans suck every ounce of air into their engines to power the massive 700,000 beast forward. No where is this…

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A U-2 Spyplane Landed On An Aircraft Carrier? Yup!

These U-2G Pilots Must Have Had Balls of Steel. The U-2 Dragonfly is notoriously difficult to land. A great deal of skill is needed to control the aircraft at slow…

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Boeing’s X-32 Was The Ugly Duckling In JSF Competition

A question with no answer: Would Boeing’s X-32 have been the better choice for the Joint Strike Fighter program? As the Joint Strike Fighter concept developed over a decade ago,…

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Lockheed Martin

Supersonic Comeback? Meet NASA’s X-59 Quesst

LMXT: Lockheed’s Newest Tanker Proposal Built on the A330 MRTT

Ben & Jerry’s Co-Founder Arrested for Blasting Sound of F-35 From Giant Speakers in Protest

Lockheed Wants to Put a Base Camp in Orbit Around Mars, Complete With Lander

India Fighter Competition Heads Up, F-16 Production In Fort Worth To End

NASA Wants to Put a Deep Space Gateway in Lunar Orbit

NASA X-Plane Will Make Supersonic Passenger Travel Over Land a Reality

The C-130J: The High-Tech Millennial Grandchild Of The 60-Plus Year Old Hercules

We Take A Look At The Jets Competing To Replace The T-38

C-5 Uses Every Inch Of Runway for a Spectacularly Dusty Takeoff

A U-2 Spyplane Landed On An Aircraft Carrier? Yup!

Boeing’s X-32 Was The Ugly Duckling In JSF Competition

Meet the U.S. Air Force’s New F-35A Demo Pilot

National Airlines – The Airline of the Stars

B-1 Bomber Crashes at Ellsworth AFB, Crew Safe

Flying in the Polaris MiG-29 for a Look at Their Astronaut Jet Training

My First Night Of Desert Storm