This article comes from Space.com. NASA’s revolutionary X-59 jet is steadily progressing towards its first flight test. Engineers with NASA’s X-59 Quesst program (Quiet SuperSonic Technology) have been conducting test runs of the jet’s engines at the storied Lockheed Martin Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California. The tests are going in phases. During the preliminary tests, engineers ran the X-59’s engines at low speeds without igniting it to check for any leaks and to...

This article comes from Time.com (Time Magazine). “Wxactly 80 years ago today, on Jan. 1, 1935, the Associated Press sent its very first photograph over the organization’s brand new Wirephoto service: an aerial photo of a plane crash in upstate New York. The photo was delivered across the country to 47 newspapers in 25 states. In an article published that day in The Bulletin newspaper, AP president Frank B. Noyes named each of the papers that had opted into the service saying, “These are the...

This post comes from 1945.com. “The U.S. Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program seeks a sixth-generation stealth aircraft to succeed the F-22 Raptor. Originally projected at up to $300 million each, Secretary Frank Kendall has since hinted the final unit cost could be closer to the F-35. -Still, even that lower threshold is tough to achieve without exports that the United States almost certainly won’t allow. Meanwhile, defense industry players have invested heavily in new...

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This post comes from LiveScience.com. “Although it isn’t clear what the X-37B is used for, its new maneuver would help it to evade detection and perform undetected low-passes over Earth. A secret, experimental space plane will be performing a new kind of specialized brake maneuver as it returns to Earth’s atmosphere, the U.S. Space Force announced. The X-37B is a secret, remotely operated spacecraft designed by Boeing for unknown purposes in service of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)....