aircraft, part of the Autonomous Formation Flight (AFF) project based at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., flew the mission in early December. During the 96-minute flight, the ...
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Why America’s Mach 3 Valkyrie became a brilliant dead end
The XB-70 Valkyrie was not defeated by bad engineering. It was defeated by a strategic idea that aged faster than the airplane built to prove it. Conceived in the 1950s as the Air Force’s answer to ...
A U.S. government and contractor team is developing a novel wake-vortex detection system employing laser beams that "listen" to the acoustic signals generated primarily by aircraft wingtip vortices.
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