China has rejected claims that its new stealth fighter jet was built using U.S. technology, recovered from a plane downed over Serbia a decade ago.
Reports in the foreign media suggested that China used reverse engineering after the country’s experts allegedly studied parts of a U.S. Air Force F-117, shot down over Serbia in March of 1999.
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China says stealth technology is domestic
January 25th, 2011 |
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Dec. 8, 1993: Location, Location, Location
December 8th, 2010 |
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1993: The U.S. secretary of defense opens the global positioning system to civilian use. It’s about to change how people see where they are.
The GPS story starts with Sputnik, the first artificial satellite. The night after it was launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, researchers at MIT were able to track Sputnik’s orbit [...]
July 15, 1954: Boeing 707 Makes First Flight
July 15th, 2010 |
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1954: The Boeing 367-80 makes its first flight from Renton Field southeast of Seattle. The jet-powered airliner will become the Boeing 707 and usher in the jet age for passenger travel.
Boeing was not the first company to produce a jet-powered airliner. But just as Ford’s Model T popularized the automobile despite being a latecomer [...]
Unmanned X-51 Air Force Jet Sets Speed Record
May 28th, 2010 |
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Using a supersonic combustion ramjet motor, Boeing and the U.S. Air Force successfully tested an unmanned X-51A WaveRider, setting a speed record. It is the world’s first hypersonic scramjet flight using hydrocarbon fuel, Boeing said. – In its first flight attempt, the Boeing X-51A WaveRider successfully
completed the longest supersonic combustion ramjet-powered flight in
history — nearly three and a half minutes at a top speed of Mach 5,
the aerospace giant announced. The Air Force described the X-51 is an
unmanned scramjet d…
Air Force Launches Top Secret X-37 Space Plane
April 24th, 2010 |
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A prototype space vehicle, the Boeing-developed X-37 Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) was successfully launched in Florida. An Air Force official admitted the top secret, unmanned space plane did not have any planned return date. In all honesty, we dont know when its coming back for sure, said Air Force deputy under secretary for space programs Gary Payton.
– The U.S. Air Force successfully launched the top secret Orbital Test
Vehicle (OTV), also known as the X-37B and commonly described as an
unmanned space plane that can re-enter the earths atmosphere. United
Launch Alliance (ULA), a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Boeing, announced the OTV-1 w…
March 2, 1949: Around the World Without Landing
March 2nd, 2010 |
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1949: After 94 hours, 1 minute of flying time, a Boeing B-50 named Lucky Lady II lands at Carswell Air Force Base, Texas, completing the first ever nonstop, around-the-world trip by an airplane.
The flight covered 23,452 miles, averaging a ground speed of 249 miles per hour. The modified bomber required air-to-air refueling four times as it [...]
Newest USAF Environmental Satellite Launched
October 21st, 2009 |
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The Air Force launches latest its meteorological satellite designed to provide strategic and tactical weather predictions to aid the U.S. military.
– The U.S. Air Force launched its latest meteorological satellite Oct. 20.
The DMSP
(Defense Meteorological
Satellite Program) F-18 Block 5D-3 spacecraft accommodates
larger sensor payloads than earlier generations and is used for strategic and tactical weather
prediction to aid the U.S. military…