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B-1, U.S. variable-wing strategic bomber that entered service in 1986 as a successor to the B-52 Stratofortress. The B-1 was designed to penetrate radar-guided air defenses by flying at low levels. It was built in two versions by Rockwell International.

Wright flyer of 1903, first powered airplane to demonstrate sustained flight under the full control of the pilot. Designed and built by Wilbur and Orville Wright in Dayton, Ohio, it was assembled in the autumn of 1903 at a camp at the base of the Kill Devil Hills, near Kitty Hawk, a village on the

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), military aircraft that is guided autonomously, by remote control, or both and that carries sensors, target designators, offensive ordnance, or electronic transmitters designed to interfere with or destroy enemy targets.

F-16, also called Fighting Falcon, single-seat, single-engine jet fighter built by the General Dynamics Corporation (now part of the Lockheed Martin Corporation) for the United States and more than a dozen other countries. The F-16 originated in an order placed in 1972 for a lightweight cost-effective air-to-air fighter. Current models are also all-weather capable and effective for ground attack as well. The U.S. Air Force took first delivery in 1978. The F-16 is 49 feet (15 metres) long and ha...

The scandals began right in the beginning     [ Editor’s note: VT is currently structured on a triple generational model. The seniors are of the late WWII, early Cold War era, like Lee Wanta and Clinton Bastin who went from Georgia Tech into Marine Officer Candidate school, and his brilliance in engineering had him working soon after at the Atomic Energy Commission, (AEC), an acronym no one ever sees any more. Next we have the Vietnam era batch, the core of VT numerically, the baby boomers...

ExtremeTech NASA and Blue Origin Will Simulate Lunar Gravity With Spinning Rockets By Ryan Whitwam on March 15, 2021 at 7:30 am This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Jeff Bezos recently announced he would step down as Amazon’s CEO, allowing him to devote more time to building rockets. That’s what billionaires do these days — just ask Elon Musk. Bezos’ Blue Origin rockets are still taking shape, but the company has announced...

As a greater testing ground for these emerging technologies, NASA will soon have more options for observing those innovations in lunar gravity thanks to a collaboration with Blue Origin to bring fresh capabilities to their New Shepard reusable suborbital rocket system. Right now, NASA can replicate the Moon’s limited gravity on parabolic flights in converted aircraft like the retired KC-135 "Vomit Comet" that helped train astronauts from 1994 to 2004, and in special centrifuges aboard�...