The Mach 3 Interceptor With No Windscreen

The Mach 3 Interceptor With No Windscreen

Aviation militaire

The Republic XF-103 was meant to do something no fighter of the early 1950s could: cruise at Mach 3 — three times the speed of sound — at the edge of the stratosphere, run down a Soviet bomber, and kill it with missiles. To get there, its designers made a...
The Three-Engine Jet That America Forgot

The Three-Engine Jet That America Forgot

Aviation militaire

Count the engines. Most jets have two, or four. The Martin XB-51 had three — two slung under the nose in pods, and a third buried in the tail, breathing through an intake at the base of the fin. It is one of the strangest combat aircraft the United States ever...
Alaska and Hawaiian Hit 150 Starlink Jets

Alaska and Hawaiian Hit 150 Starlink Jets

Monde de l'aviation

The Wi-Fi on your next Alaska or Hawaiian flight may now be faster than the connection in your living room. Alaska Air Group says roughly 150 of its aircraft are flying with SpaceX’s Starlink internet — and for a lot of passengers, it is free.The group...
The Greyhound Flies Its Last Carrier Landing

The Greyhound Flies Its Last Carrier Landing

Aviation militaire

For sixty years, one of the most welcome sounds on an American aircraft carrier was not a fighter. It was the drone of two big turboprops on approach. The C-2 Greyhound brought the mail, the spare parts, the fresh food, and the sailors heading home on leave. On 25...
1,300 F-35s, a Pipeline Built for 800

1,300 F-35s, a Pipeline Built for 800

Aviation militaire, Nouvelles

The Marine general who runs the F-35 program walked into a Senate hearing this week and said the quiet part out loud: the most expensive weapons program in history has outgrown the system built to keep it flying.It landed weeks after a Government Accountability Office...