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Oct 16, 2020

The Army’s next long range assault aircraft will be a brand new bird

The U.S. Army’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) program passed through the Army Requirements Oversight Council and received preliminary approval to set the capabilities development. In replacing the UH-60 Blackhawk, the Army looks …

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Oct 16, 2020

BYBusiness Insider

Apr 29, 2020

Mysterious White House lockdown caused by… birds?

Two days before millions of Americans were expected to feast on turkey for Thanksgiving, a flock of birds is theorized to have been responsible for the White House lockdown in the early hours of the morning on Nov. 26, 2019. The White House wa…

BYBusiness Insider

Apr 29, 2020

BYBusiness Insider

Apr 29, 2020

US Navy confirms mysterious videos of pilots spotting UFOs are genuine

The US Navy has confirmed videos showing pilots confused by two mysterious flying objects over the US contained what it considers to be UFOs, after years of speculation since their release. Joseph Gradisher, the Navy’s spokesman for the deput…

BYBusiness Insider

Apr 29, 2020

BYThe Aviationist

Apr 29, 2020

Astronomer photographs secretive space plane on classified mission

Noted astronomer and satellite expert Ralf Vandebergh of Nijswiller, Limburg, Netherlands, spent months searching the skies for one of the Holy Grails of sky spotting, the secretive U.S. Air Force Boeing X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle. In May 2019, he f…

BYThe Aviationist

Apr 29, 2020

BYThe Aviationist

Apr 29, 2020

Boeing T-X first official EMD flight test was ‘superb’

On July 1, 2019, Boeing announced that T-X aircraft N381TX flew the first official Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) flight test from Boeing’s St Louis plant in Missouri. Boeing did not disclose further details about this flight altho…

BYThe Aviationist

Apr 29, 2020

BYThe Aviationist

Apr 29, 2020

This aircraft just made history as the largest aircraft to fly

The world’s largest aircraft, the Stratolaunch Launch Systems Stratolaunch, flew for the first time on Saturday, April 13, 2019. The massive aircraft took off from the Mojave Air & Space Port’s Civilian Aerospace Test Center in California at 0…

BYThe Aviationist

Apr 29, 2020

BYDepartment of Justice

Apr 29, 2020

A Chinese spy was arrested for allegedly stealing aerospace secrets

A Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) operative, Yanjun Xu, aka Qu Hui, aka Zhang Hui, has been arrested and charged with conspiring and attempting to commit economic espionage and steal trade secrets from multiple U.S. aviation and …

BYDepartment of Justice

Apr 29, 2020

BYBusiness Insider

May 24, 2018

US military released report on faster-than-light travel but don’t get your hopes up

Sometime after August 2008, the US Department of Defense contracted dozens of researchers to look into some very, very out-there aerospace technologies, including never-before-seen methods of propulsion, lift, and stealth. Two researchers came…

BYBusiness Insider

May 24, 2018