Author: Daniel Tom

The SR-72 Will Be the Fastest Aircraft in the World:   Although the original Blackbird was an unarmed reconnaissance aircraft, the SR-72 will reportedly support Lockheed Martin’s new High-Speed Strike weᴀponѕ (HSSW). And while the world was watching closely when the Chinese tested their hypersonic missiles, the Son of Blackbird will reportedly fly at a…

Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host of Ask a Spaceman and Space Radio, and author of “How to Die in Space.” He contributed this article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. White dwarfs are some of the strangest objects in the universe. The leftover cores from sunlike stars, white…

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This US Transformer Plane Was Designed so Weird it Cost $60,000 per Hour to Fly     .   .  

Testing the aggressive design of the US F-22 to its extreme limit.An interesting insight into the advanced technologies behind the F-22 Raptor. This feature also discusses some other fleets in the F-class, including the F-35 and F-16.   .   .   .    

Previous studies have shown that the Moon was heavily bombarded by asteroids about 3.9 billion years ago. However, the origin of these celestial bodies remained a mystery until recently. Planetologists from the University of Münster conducted new experiments and confirmed the hypothesis that about 3.9 billion years ago the Moon was subjected to a powerful…

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Despite being nearly fifty years old, how does the U.S. A-10 Warthog continue to survive various efforts to cancel it each time it’s in budget-cut danger? An airplane that is as ugly as its name, the A-10 can bring the heat to the air-to-ground battle. Its many critics have to admit that this thing is…

The year 2022 has marked several special anniversaries. It has marked 50 years of the BMW M division of course. But one other anniversary that is worth celebrating is the 75th anniversary of the first, and only flight, of the Hughes H-4 Hercules. Better known as the Spruce Goose. The year 2022 has marked several…

This new F-15N Sea Eagle aimed to be lighter, faster, more maneuverable, and cheaper than Tom Cruise’s Tomcat, but concerns about armament ultimately kept this jet from ever making it off the drawing board. But what prompted the Pentagon to consider putting the F-15 on aircraft carriers in the first place? To understand that, you…