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I know of only 2 of their combat aircraft, those being the Squirt (Awful name) and the XBTK, were there any others?

My 3D models of two comparable 1980s SSTO projects: This one is meant to represent the "Government baseline" vehicle that was the end result of the $5.5-million COPPER CANYON study program run in 1984-1985, and input for NASP Phase 2. It was scaled up somewhat from the initial "du Pont...

Created as a holding place for the actual announcement due later today. It seems logical to separate this from the long-running thread on the Next Generation Bomber Studies. If the moderators disagree, we can merge it back. Here's the announcement of the announcement, including a link to the...

Does this mean that the A-10 Thunderbolt II has been saved from the budget cutting block? "Northrop Grumman Awarded U.S. Air Force A-10 TLPS Task Orders" Published November 19, 2013 | By Marcel van Leeuwen Source...

"B-52 Re-engine Resurfaces As USAF Reviews Studies" Oct 10, 2014 Bill Sweetman | Aerospace Daily & Defense Report Source: http://aviationweek.com/defense/b-52-re-engine-resurfaces-usaf-reviews-studies

"New secretariat urges a complete restart of Canada's F-35 buy" By Dave Majumdar on May 1, 2012 4:45 PM | Permalink | Comments (20) | TrackBacks (0) Source: http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/ Canada's Globe and Mail is reporting that a new secretariat within the Canadian...

"Boeing considers wingtips that on its next big jet" Seattle Times November 5, 2012 by Dominic Gates, Seattle Times aerospace reporter Source: http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2019614451_777x06.html

Let the fun begin.

Just heard on another site that Lockheed is proceeding with development for two new variants of the C-130. One for export and another for U.S. use later this decade or the next to replace our C-130H's. Here's the link...

http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2011/09/photos-fighter-bomber-trainer.html http://defensetech.org/2011/09/19/dont-hold-your-breath-for-t-x/

Blue Origin is Jeff Bezos' space company currently developing a suborbital VTOL RLV called New Shephard. This vehicle is inspired by the DC-X, with some engineers from that programme now working for Blue Origin. The company is notoriously secretive about its plans and progress but information...

The F-18 flaps and flaperons... I know the flaps and elevons both droop equally at least at high settings and they seem to have a slot. What I am curious about is what you call the part of the flap in front of the slot (it pivots/droops somewhat with the flap), does anybody know what you call...

For the God's sake, this is how complicated it looks like

Hi, A new program for US Navy the MMA (Multi-mission Maritime Aircraft) is now fullfied by Boeing 737-800ERX.

For starting this thread, I want to study this advanced fighter not simply post some interjections. Now, this fighter seem to be more better than I imaged before, with superior ECM, high T/W rate, CRAET airintakes etc. But right now, I really hope to know is are there other pix which showed not...