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Ronald Reagan stars as a fighter pilot instructor in this training film on fighter formations. A fighter ace, he is sent back to Washington (!) to be assigned a mission training young pilots on his successful tactics. He teaches pilot formations designed for quick and easy sighting of enemy planes, techniques
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SOM-J is an air-to-surface missile to be used against heavily defended, high-value anti-surface warfare and land targets. Lockheed Martin is teamed with Roketsan and is delivering experience and expertise to the SOM-J development team for F-35 internal carriage integration. Source: YouTube/Lockheed Martin
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MQ-9 Reapers begin adding GBU-38's to their arsenal. The GBU-38 can be employed successfully during adversed weather due to its GPS-guidance. An MQ-9 Reaper assigned to the 62nd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, takes off for a mission armed with GBU-
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On Jan. 18, 2018, Armstrong’s Subscale Research Lab crew piloted the 𝝁Cub (MicroCub) for its inaugural flight, successfully demonstrating the aircraft’s airworthiness. The MicroCub is a Bill Hempel 60-percent-scale super cub, which has been modified by Armstrong to support engineering campaigns focused on the integration of
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An F/A-18F Super Hornet, assigned to the Fighting Redcocks of Strike Fighter Attack Squadron (VFA) 22, and an EA-18G Growler, assigned to the Cougars of Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 139 takes off from the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). Theodore Roosevelt and its carrier strike
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NASA is investigating the ways flexible, light weight, ultra-efficient lift wings may increase efficiency for aircraft, and how to address their challenge with flutter in flight. One technology that may make it possible to stabilize flutter, increasing both aircraft efficiency and safety, is the use of advanced flight control
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Live coverage of SpaceX Elon Musk's Starman Driving a Tesla in Space after Successful Heavy Falcon Launch. Source: YouTube
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U.S. Navy video of a U.S. EP-3 Aries aircraft flying Jan. 29, 2018, in international airspace over the Black Sea being intercepted by a Russian Su-27. This interaction was determined to be unsafe due to the Su-27 closing to within five feet and crossing directly
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Generation Orbit Launch Services, Inc. (GO) completed the GO1 Inert Test Article captive carry flight test at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in December. Under a public-private partnership with NASA, GO developed the GO1-ITA, a mass properties and outer mold line simulator for the GO1 hypersonic flight
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German brothers Johannes and Phillip Mickenbecker made a drone from a bathtub. It's remote-controlled and uses the same technology as common drones. The brothers flew it around in a gym with a pilot inside. They needed permission from the German government to build it. The bathtub has
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The skies above southern California lit up with strange and scary sightings - it was in fact simply the launch of SpaceX Falcon 9. Team Vandenberg supported the successful launch of the fourth Iridium mission on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex-4 on Friday, Dec. 22, at
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The Red Star Yak 52 Display Team do their thing (massed formation aerobatics) at the Classic Fighters airshow held at Omaka Aerodrome in Blenheim, New Zealand. A Precision Warbird Mass Formation Display Team. We are actually several teams across the United States, staffed by FAA qualified warbird formation pilots that