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<p>The most far-out shot of the lot.</p>
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Attention, turbojet-heads: Turner Classic Movies airs "The Sound Barrier" at 8 p.m. EST Friday, May 7. The 1952 film, directed by David Lean, plays fast and loose with aerodynamics and aviation history, but it offers fine footage of a de Havilland Comet and a Supermarine Swift interceptor, a number...
Among the more intriguing commercial space vehicles on the drawing board is Excalibur Almaz, whose backers propose to use leftover vehicles built for a Soviet military space station program that died aborning in the 1970s. The principals in the company include Art Dula, an old hand in the field of ...
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NASA’s new launch abort system just passed a major test. But what booster and capsule will use it?
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<p>If the seats fits, it's because it's custom-made.</p>
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What springs to mind when thinking of the Humvee? Its sleek, aerodynamic lines? Well, no. But that didn't stop DARPA from announcing (in a 58-page proposal) its plans for combining an SUV-type ground vehicle with Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) capabilities. In other words, a flying Humvee.DAR...
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<p>No, it's not the St. Louis Arch.</p>
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So we thought the last of NASA's rookie astronauts had flown, leaving only veterans on the final few space shuttle flights.Not so fast.One last rookie will be on board space shuttle Discovery when it blasts off in September for the STS-133 mission.After years languishing as a laboratory-only projec...
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The Moon is constantly bombarded by the solid debris of the Solar System.
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You don't normally see a DC-3 from this angle. Good thing, too.
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Two professors analyze the stats.
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What's hot on this summer's airshow circuit.
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Charles Broadwick invented a new way of falling.
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Is there an airshow fan alive who doesn’t know the legendary Bob Hoover?
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With little more than Bernard Pietenpol's plans, anybody could build an airplane.
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You don't have to go to the moon to find out what it's made of.
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Can the MV-22 pass muster in Afghanistan?
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Frank Cepollina takes repair calls to new heights.
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Moments-Milestones Old Faithful
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In this tables-turned scenario, the airplane shoots down the missile.
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