A Trump administration pilot program aims for three nuclear startups to reach a key milestone by July 4, 2026. Valar Atomics says it’s the first to do so—but it had some help. The First Radio Signal ...
Here’s What You Need to Know: The F-89J became the Air Defense Command’s first fighter-interceptor to carry nuclear armament. The all-weather, twin-engine Northrop F-89 Scorpion was the first ...
The Edgar Percival E.P.9 is a visually distinctive 1950s aircraft characterized by its massive size, deep fuselage, elevated cockpit, and a cavernous passenger/cargo cabin, making it stand out from ...
The Vickers Swallow was a British swept-wing supersonic aircraft concept designed to serve both as a Mach 2 airliner and a stealth-capable nuclear bomber. Controlled entirely by wing movement and ...
When Lockheed designed the C-130 Hercules in the 1950s, a company engineer, Kelly Johnson, said they’d be lucky to sell a hundred. Out on the tarmac in Marietta, Georgia, Lockheed Martin’s Tony Frese, ...
WASHINGTON -- Despite acquisition difficulties caused by an inter-service rivalry with the U.S. Air Force and the technological immaturity of the U.S. helicopter industrial sector, Army Aviation's ...
An 18-month NASA research effort to visualize the passenger airplanes of the future produced some ideas that at first glance appear to be out of an old 1950s aircraft magazine. Instead of exotic new ...
As Pratt & Whitney’s test pilot at Edwards AFB in the 1950s testing two very new supersonic fighters, we ran into (approximately) the same problem as Boeing’s 737 Max [“Some airlines ground 737 Max 8s ...
Within weeks, the Department of Defense will grant one of four competitors a $95 million contract to build an exotic new aircraft — of the sort 20th century inventors went broke and nearly mad trying ...
The military landscape would shift dramatically again in the years that followed, as new ballistic missiles made it possible to launch nuclear weapons at far-flung targets with a great deal of ...
When Lockheed designed the C-130 Hercules in the 1950s, a company engineer, Kelly Johnson, said they’d be lucky to sell a hundred. Out on the tarmac in Marietta, Georgia, Lockheed Martin’s Tony Frese, ...