Sally Ride, NASA’s First Female in Space, Dies
Astronaut Sally K. Ride, Ph.D., the first American woman to fly into space, died on July 23, 2012, at her …
Aerospace
Israel’s First Strike on Iran’s Nuclear Facilities – Part 3
In the first and second parts of this series, we described the strike package of fighters and supporting aircraft making …
Israel’s First Strike on Iran’s Nuclear Facilities – Part 2
In the first part of this series, we described the strike package of fighters and supporting aircraft making the first …
Israel’s First Strike on Iran’s Nuclear Facilities – Part 1
The Eitans take off first. They’re the slowest, only 220 knots flat out, and for best endurance, they’ll cruise at …
Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS II) for Fixed Wing Jet Aircraft, UAVs
Work is underway to develop BAE Systems’ APKWS II for fast jets. On Feb. 10, 2011, the Navy awarded a …
B-26 Marauder Pilot Fought the German Jets
Long after World War II, former B-26 Marauder medium bomber pilot Jim Vining was in a room with Adolf Galland, …
The Messerschmitt Me 262 Jet Fighter
The Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe (“Swallow”), also called the Sturmvogel (“Stormbird”) in its fighter-bomber version, was the world’s first operational …
The Grumman XF10F-1 Jaguar
The Grumman XF10F-1 Jaguar fighter of the 1950s would have been a brilliant mistake if the thinking behind it had …
F-35B Flies With External Stores
Lockheed Martin recently released this video of the F-35B variant carrying external stores. Prominent among them is the stealthy centerline …
X-37B’s First Two Missions Earn Success and Speculation
On Saturday, June 16, 2012, at 5:48 AM Pacific Daylight Time (12:48 Zulu), the X-37B program’s unmanned Orbital Test Vehicle …