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11 Photos That Show Why The SR-71 'Blackbird' Is One Of The Greatest Planes...
When it comes to curb appeal, few airplanes can match the look of the SR-71 “Blackbird.” And nothing in the Air Force’s inventory — past or present — can beat its signature performance characteristics....
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The Red Bull Air Racing Season Is About To Get Started For 2015
The Red Bull Air Races are back for an eighth season, with new stops this year in Sochi, Russia, and Chiba, Japan—and with luxurious accommodations from which to view the action.For the races,...
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Boeing Caps A Record 2014 With Solid Fourth-Quarter Earnings
New York (AFP) - US aerospace giant Boeing Wednesday reported higher quarterly profits, capping a record year of commercial aircraft orders and deliveries.Earnings for the fourth quarter grew 18.9...
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Here’s why the A-10 Warthog is one of the all-time great combat aircraft
Since Desert Storm if the mission involved close air support — especially killing tanks — the A-10 ‘Warthog’ was the jet the infantry loved to see overhead.It’s lethal, it’s agile, and it’s perfect at...
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The media is completely wrong — copilots are just as good at flying as captains
I can't take it anymore. How many times can the media, whether it’s a print reporter or a celebrity newscaster, make the same mistake?And why aren’t the supposed experts, often right there on camera...
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The legendary U-2 spy plane is still one of the US's most effective...
The Pentagon has released its budget request for 2016, and among the items being digested by the DC-based defense community is the reprieve of the storied U-2 spy plane.First built in 1955, the U-2 is,...
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The US military's helicopter fleet is desperately in need of modernization
Current procurement and acquisition plans have left the US Army's helicopter fleet in an increasingly untenable position, Breaking Defense reports. Due to a lack of funding and next-generation...
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Bhutan's tiny Himalayan airport is one of the hardest places on Earth to land
Bhutan, the tiny Himalayan kingdom tucked between India and China, has but one international airport.Surrounded by 18,000-foot mountains.That airport is called "Paro," and like the rest of the mostly...
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At least 16 dead as Taiwan plane cartwheels into river on takeoff
At least 16 people were killed and more than a dozen were unaccounted for after a Taiwanese TransAsia Airways plane with 58 passengers and crew on board crashed into a Taipei river shortly after...
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Russia's military is adding more planes this year than most countries own in...
Russia is proceeding with an ambitious plan to bolster its air force, at a time when its military aircraft are conducting more and more flights — probing the air defenses of its neighbors and raising...
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Check out the $45 million Falcon 5X private jet — it has a skylight!
French aircraft manufacturer Dassault's Falcon 5X private jet is fantastic.Debuted in 2013, the plane has room for 16 passengers. It's equipped with new Snecma Silvercrest engines that Dassault says...
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The Pentagon will spend nearly $400 billion for thousands more warplanes over...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon's plans to fund 50 percent more F-35 fighter jets in fiscal 2016 will help drive down the price of the new plane and its engine, a top official with enginemaker...
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A top US Navy officer thinks that one of the F-35's most hyped capabilities...
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jon Greenert outlined in a speech last week what the Navy would hope to see in a next-generation strike aircraft. Tellingly, Greenert's ideal bears little resemblance to...
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Incredible photographs from above Las Vegas make the city look like a giant...
In January, Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Vincent Laforet released a collection of aerial photographs of New York City taken from an open helicopter door at an astounding 7,500 feet above the...
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The US is the new hot spot for aerospace manufacturing
SEATTLE (Reuters) - The aerospace industry is shifting more manufacturing investment to the United States after a decade in which production jobs in the sector flowed to China and other emerging...
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Lockheed Martin claims it can knock $15 million off the F-35 in a few years
The price of the F-35 joint strike fighter will come down considerably over the next several years, said Lockheed Martin President and CEO Marillyn A. Hewson. But making the aircraft more affordable...
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Thailand has an aircraft carrier with no aircraft
For a brief period in the late 1990s, Thailand was the only country in southeast Asia that possessed one of the ultimate symbols of military strength: an aircraft carrier.Its carrier, the HTMS Chakri...
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The Navy says it needs more tactical and strike aircraft on aircraft carriers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy remains committed to its plans to buy the carrier-based variant of Lockheed Martin Corp's F-35 fighter jet and declare it ready for initial combat use by 2018, Vice...
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