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No, the F-15 never Attacked Death Star of Star Wars. But the mighty Eagle was the only US aircraft to destroy a machine orbiting Earth. Here’s how.

No, the F-15 never Attacked Death Star of Star Wars. But the mighty Eagle was the only US aircraft to destroy machine orbiting Earth. Here’s how.

In September 1985, an F-15 Eagle was even able to destroy a machine orbiting Earth. But no, it wasn’t the… Read More

1 month ago

Concorde wasn’t the first Airliner to Break the Sound Barrier: how the DC-8 became the first commercial transport to go supersonic

The first airliner to go supersonic wasn’t the famous Concorde, which wouldn’t break the sound barrier until an October ’69… Read More

2 months ago

AGM-183A ARRW Falls Short in Second Test but the USAF isn’t saying what went wrong with the Lockheed Martin-built hypersonic missile

The second All-Up-Round AGM-183A ARRW flight fell short of fully successful test but the USAF isn’t saying what went… Read More

2 months ago

The story of the Valkyrie crew that was able to safely land their XB-70A after both hydraulic systems failed preventing both sets of main gear from fully lowering

There was trouble with both sets of main gear of the XB-70A Valkyrie. On the left side, the gear had… Read More

3 months ago

Did you know? To keep the A-12 project secret CIA stored in boxes Oxcart spy planes and moved them from Skunk Works production site to Area 51

Since the CIA wanted to keep the A-12 project secret, it determined that the Oxcart could not be tested at… Read More

3 months ago

Artificial intelligence agents piloted X-62A VISTA to perform advanced fighter maneuvers mimicking flight characteristics of standard F-16

These tests are built upon the X-62A VISTA upgrade, which allows the X-62 to be controlled by AI-driven autonomy algorithms… Read More

4 months ago

Some of the Coolest Aircraft Ever Built were Featured at the Only Public Air Show in XB-70 Valkyrie History

Taken at Carswell AFB, Texas, in 1966 the cool photo in this post was taken during Combination Open House which… Read More

4 months ago

F-35 conducts first flight with Technology Refresh 3, the modernized hardware needed to power Block 4 capabilities

A developmental test team from the 461st Flight Test Squadron conducted the first flight of an F-35 in the Technology… Read More

5 months ago

The True Story of Chuck Yeager’s NF-104 Ejection featured in the Famous Sequence of The Right Stuff Movie

Chuck Yeager’s NF-104 ejection took place while he was attempting to set new altitude record at the edge of… Read More

6 months ago

New supersonic corridor named “Bell X-1 Supersonic Corridor” unveiled at Edwards AFB during the 2022 Aerospace Valley Open House, Air Show & STEM Expo

Maj. Alex "Brick" Shuler, F-22 Test Pilot became the first pilot to break the sound barrier in the newly named… Read More

8 months ago

Here’s the special painted 75th Anniversary of Supersonic Flight F-16 Viper that is taking part in the Edwards Air Show

The photos in this post features the 75th Anniversary of Supersonic Flight F-16 Viper. Taken at Edwards Air Force Base… Read More

8 months ago

F-14D pilot recalls that time Chuck Yeager said his Super Tomcat was “the only real fighter” featured at Edwards AFB air show

‘He asked few questions about our deployment and how it performed over Iraq, asked about me and my RIO,… Read More

8 months ago

Top Gun: Maverick Lockheed Martin Darkstar is on display at Edwards AFB (side by side with an SR-71 Blackbird)

Top Gun: Maverick Lockheed Martin Darkstar hypersonic jet of the movie "Top Gun: Maverick" is on display this weekend at… Read More

8 months ago

‘The XB-70 flies less Mach 3 time than the YF-12, but when it flies at Mach 3 the Valkyrie loses pieces that are bigger than the Blackbird.’ The Mach 3 rivalry between the YF-12 and the XB-70.

The XB-70 Valkyrie was an extremely large airframe; the YF-12 was not small being 107 feet long. But if you… Read More

8 months ago

F-22 Raptor achieves milestones: first use of third-party software on fifth-gen fighter, first use in flight of an open software stack on any fighter aircraft

Members of the Air Combat Command Federal Laboratory, test pilots at Edwards Air Force Base, and software developers from the… Read More

9 months ago

461st Flight Test Squadron receives the newest F-35A to test Tech Refresh 3 and Block 4 configurations of the Lightning II

The newest F-35A, straight out of the factory, found its new home here at Edwards AFB, California, on Aug. 1.… Read More

10 months ago

Eclipse Project: when NASA used USAF C-141A Starlifter to tow a QF-106A Delta Dart to demonstrate the feasibility of using the aerotow concept to launch space vehicles

The QF-106A Delta Dart was successfully towed aloft six times by the C-141A Starlifter to a peak altitude of 25,000… Read More

11 months ago
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