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The Messerschmitt Bf 109 was the first truly modern fighter. With its all-metal stressed-skin construction, mono-wing design, enclosed cockpit, and retractable landing gear, it had no equal. It was the fastest military plane in the sky for six years — until another German plane, the Focke-Wulf Fw 190, supplanted it. Because
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The British Martin-Baker MB 5 was the ultimate development of a series of prototype fighter aircraft built during the Second World War. Neither the MB 5 nor its predecessors ever entered production, despite what test pilots described as excellent performance. Martin-Baker Aircraft began the MB 5 as the second Martin-Baker
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With Burning Man being cancelled for the second year in a row over COVID-19 concerns, some Burners who do not have COVID-19 concerns organized their own “renegade” Burning Man on the Black Rock Desert Playa, near Gerlach, Nevada, over the last week. Pershing County Sheriff Jerry Allen described this year&
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This footage comes from one of the final scenes in the captivating 1945 Academy Award nominated film The Last Bomb. The complete 35-minute remastered film is available on this channel here. The Last Bomb is a 1945 propaganda film mainly concerning the conventional phase of the bombing of Japan in
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Alligator in Florida snatches drone mid-air, smokes billows from his mouth after. The footage, reportedly filmed in Florida, shows shows the moment the alligator snapped its jaws shut around the small drone. However, the device likely combusted moments afterwards, as the video shows smoke billowing out of the animal'
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The USSR Ekranoplan, or better known as the Caspin Sea Monster, was a giant ground effect aircraft that could hover above the seas. It was as big, used freighting new physics seemingly beyond then-current technology, And terrified the west. The United States, in a cold war fury, didn’t want
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The Spitfire is an icon, but it was recognised that improvements could be made to iron out it's flaws. This development ultimately led to the Spiteful and Seafang - two of the fastest piston engine aircraft to ever fly. The Supermarine Spiteful was a British Rolls-Royce Griffon-engined fighter
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The Bristol Type 167 Brabazon was a large British piston-engined propeller-driven airliner designed by the Bristol Aeroplane Company to fly transatlantic routes between the UK and the United States. The type was named Brabazon after the Brabazon Committee and its chairman, Lord Brabazon of Tara, who had developed the specification
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During the warm up sessions for the third rugby test match between the South African Springboks and British and Irish Lions in Cape Town, one of the Lions players downed a TV drone with a spectacular spot kick. The British and Irish Lions succumbed to a second consecutive defeat as
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Sukhoi Su-57 fighter jet in action, take off, flight, landing. Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-57 is a single-seat, twin-engine stealth multirole fighter developed by Sukhoi for the Russian Aerospace Forces, the Su-57 is the first fighter in Russian military service to feature stealth technology. The multirole fighter is designed to
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As an aircraft designer, physicist, astronomer, philosopher, painter and musician, Italian-born designer Robert Bartini is often described as a genius ahead of his time. Throughout his life, he designed over 60 aircraft and made significant contributions to Soviet aviation. Although most of Bartini’s aircraft designs never left the drawing
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The Blue Angels flight demonstration squadron was formed in 1946 by the United States Navy. The unit is the second oldest formal aerobatic team (under the same name) in the world, after the French Patrouille de France formed in 1931. The Blue Angels' Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornets (numbered