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US supersonic jet soars to record 25,040 feet, fuels speedy travel dreams
Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator aircraft set a new altitude record of 25,040 feet and matched its top speed of Mach 0.82 ...
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Bee-like vertical landing electric aircraft showcases super propulsion system
Austrian aviation company CycloTech is preparing to test a new electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft demonstrator featuring its innovative “CycloRotor” propulsion system. The company ...
Skunk Works Tests See AI-Enabled L-29 Jets Fly Mock Air-To-Air Mission On Orders From Aerial Controller
A human controller flying in an L-39 Albatros jet ordered a pair of L-29 Delfin jets with artificial intelligence (AI) driven ...
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I Learned to Fly an Electric Aircraft in 3 Days. It Blew My Mind
"It's actually incredibly hard to do something that's going to give you a bad outcome in one of these aircraft," says Pivotal ...
GE Aerospace demos 1MW hybrid electric propulsion system for US Army’s air, land fleet
GE Aerospace has demonstrated a 1-megawatt hybrid electric propulsion system under the $5.1M ARC-STEP contract with the US ...
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Lockheed uses L-39 and two L-29s to test air-to-air combat with autonomous fighters
In a series of flight tests, Lockheed Martin's secretive Skunk Works unit simulated an offensive counter air mission where an ...
The National Interest2d
X-44 Manta Stealth Fighter Explained in 3 Words
Concepts from the X-44 Manta may have influenced the U.S. Air Force's Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program, which is ...
The Aviationist6d
Northrop Grumman Delivers First SiAW Test Missile to the U.S. Air Force
The delivery of the first test missile to the Air Force marks the beginning of flight testing to verify the safe interaction ...