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The iconic F-104 Starfighter was officially retired from Italian Air Force service in October 2004. Designed by Lockheed’s ace engineer… Read More
The odd photos in this post show an F-15 Eagle fighter jet carrying an AIM-54 Phoenix long-range air-to-air missile. The… Read More
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How much money did Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin earn for their moonwalk on the Apollo 11 mission? Did they… Read More
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
The event will commemorate the 75th anniversaries of the Air Force and the first supersonic flight, by then-Capt. Chuck Yeager… Read More
As Elon Musk tweets challenges to Vladimir Putin, launches astronauts to the International Space Station, builds electric vehicles, attempts to… Read More
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The time-lapse video in this post features the manufacturing of the X-59 QueSST and includes the merger of its main… Read More
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