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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
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As Elon Musk tweets challenges to Vladimir Putin, launches astronauts to the International Space Station, builds electric vehicles, attempts to… Read More
The USAF ordered 93 production F-12B Blackbird Mach 3+ Interceptor aircraft, which would have been armed with three Hughes AIM-47A… Read More
Is true that the Space Shuttle smelled quite bad when ground crews got aboard after a flight to clean and… Read More
The time-lapse video in this post features the manufacturing of the X-59 QueSST and includes the merger of its main… Read More
Upon their safe return to Dryden and exiting the SR-71B Blackbird, Meyer and Schneider donned a pair of Wisconsin "cheeseheads"… Read More
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