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Emma Stone F-22 Myth: She Never Flew a Raptor
1+ week, 3+ day ago (565+ words) by Connor Kerr | 19. Juni 2026 | Luftfahrtwelt, Nachricht | 0 comments Every so often, a clip resurfaces online claiming that the Hollywood star Emma Stone made history as “the first civilian to fly in an F-22 Raptor.” It collects millions of views, a flurry…...
Best of BS Opinion: A test of how power becomes credible
8+ hour, 14+ min ago (318+ words) Power lasts only when the underlying institutions are credible It is easiest to recognise power in its visible forms: A summit declaration, a vast business empire, a stateâs ability to borrow, a regulatory certificate, or a billionaireâs fortune…...
Vought V-173: The Flying Pancake That Flew
1+ week, 3+ day ago (735+ words) by Connor Kerr | 21 luglio 2026 | Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare | 0 comments It sat on the ground at twenty-two degrees nose-up, which meant the pilot could not see forward at all. To take off and land he looked down through windows cut…...
The Hungarian Martians: Emigres Who Built the Bomb
1+ week, 3+ day ago (549+ words) by Tamika Johnson | 5 agosto 2026 | Storia e leggende | 0 commentsCondividi questa storia Part 2 of The Race for the Bomb, an Afterburner focus series. Part 1 followed the physics revolution to Leo Szilard’s traffic-light epiphany. This part is about the men who carried the…...
"It Can't Fire a Gun and Doesn't Carry a Bomb." That Was the Air Force Chief of Staff on the SR-71 Blackbird, an Aircraft With 17,300 Sorties and Zero Losses to Enemy Fire.
9+ hour, 8+ min ago (1683+ words) Across its life the SR-71 Blackbird program flew 53,490 hours over 17,300 sorties, including 11,675 hours above Mach 3 — a record of production no other reconnaissance aircraft has approached. The airframe never lost a mission, never lost an aircraft to hostile fire, and still…...
The Pentagon Cut the B-2 Bomber Program From $75,400,000,000 to $61,100,000,000 and Made Every Aircraft More Expensive. Cutting the Order From 132 to 21 Nearly Quadrupled the Cost per Bomber.
9+ hour, 41+ min ago (846+ words) What the money bought when it came to the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber: Four General Electric F118s at 17,300 pounds of thrust each, a 172-foot wingspan, 336,500 pounds maximum takeoff weight, 167,000 pounds of fuel and 60,000 pounds of payload, 6,000 nautical miles without a tanker, above…...
$850,000,000 Australian Submarine ‘Sank’ a $5,500,000,000 US Navy Nuclear Nimitz-Class Aircraft Carrier and 2 Nuclear Attack Submarines by Evading a Fleet of Warships and ‘Penetrating the Screen’
10+ hour, 7+ min ago (1028+ words) A nuclear submarine cannot switch off its reactor, which means coolant pumps, a steam plant and reduction gears are always turning. A diesel-electric boat shuts down its engines underwater and runs on batteries alone. At low speed the noise it…...
At 75,000 Feet an SR-71 Blackbird Pilot Could See the Horizon 335 Miles Away and Make Out the Curvature of the Earth. He Could Also See the Contrail of the Soviet Fighter Coming for Him, 100 Miles Out.
10+ hour, 35+ min ago (289+ words) A Soviet pilot's logbook later recorded 14 successful SR-71 Blackbird intercepts between August 1984 and January 1987. One of them is dated October 6, 1986....
Chief Lesi Maol Brokers Peace Talks Between Khana Chairman Bariere And Chief Ndigbara
15+ hour, 35+ min ago (195+ words) nationalnetworkonline.com The President of KAGOTE and Chief Executive Officer of Giolee Global Resources Ltd, Chief Lesi Maol, has brokered peace between the Chairman of Khana Local Government Area, Dr. Thomas Bariere Ariar, and Chief Solomon Ndigbara as part of…...
Maria - The Girl Restoring a Soviet TU-104 Passenger Jet
1+ week, 3+ day ago (786+ words) Maria, who almost finished her doctorate program in a local university, has got a real, once operational Soviet TU-104 plane to restore. The plane is parked at the very far end of the airfield and it's pretty far away from…...