Background Project Silver Bug was the American “Black” project version of the Avro Aircraft Canada Y-2 undertaken by the United States Air Force in 1953. Declassified Documents Project Silver Bug Technical Report 60 SHARES Share on ...
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MC-130H Combat Talon
The Combat Talon was initially developed between December 1964 and January 1967 by Lockheed Air Services (LAS) at Ontario, California, as the result of a study by Big Safari, the USAF’s program office responsible for modification and ...
Ekranoplan
The Lun-class ekranoplan (NATO reporting name Duck) was a ground effect aircraft designed by Rostislav Evgenievich Alexeev and used by the Soviet and Russian navies from 1987 to sometime in the late 1990s. It flew using the extra lift generated ...
Quieting the Boom: The Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstrator and the Quest for Quiet Supersonic Flight
Download Quieting the Boom: The Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstrator and the Quest for Quiet Supersonic Flight [401 Pages, 5.5MB] By Lawrence R. Benson On a hot and humid July day in 2003, a pair of small supersonic jet airplanes took off together ...
NASA’s AD-1 Demonstrator
Introduction The NASA AD-1 was both an aircraft and an associated flight test program conducted between 1979 and 1982 at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards California, which successfully demonstrated an aircraft wing that could be ...