Boeing secured a $20 billion U.S. Navy contract to build the F/A-XX sixth-generation fighter jet under the Next Generation Air Dominance program for carrier-based air superiority.

Technology Aviation China's new supersonic plane could travel twice as fast as sound The TMS-10 is on track to complete a test flight by the end of the year. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. NASA's X-59 (seen above) is also intended to eventually provide commercial supersonic flight, although its design dampens sonic booms instead of dissipating them. The United States isn't the only nation itching to restart supersonic passenger air travel . Earlier this month, China announced its TMS-10 experimental demonstrator plane has entered the final assembly phase and is on schedule to conduct its first test flight by the end of the year.

The Texas Department of Transportation launched Project Nexus, a three-year program testing eVTOL aircraft and air taxi operations with Joby Aviation in North Texas skies.

A NORAD F-16 fighter jet reportedly intercepted an aircraft that violated restricted airspace over Camp David in Maryland while Donald Trump was spending the weekend there.

In 1963, a plane flew to space. Why couldn't we go farther? From the record-breaking X-15 to today's hypersonic aircraft, the spaceplane dream never really died. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. A stubby-winged'missile with a cockpit,' the X-15 will take its pilot to the edge of space, 'Popular Science' reported in June 1958. In 1926, when Albert Scott Crossfield was five years old, a priest came to his home to administer the last rites.

Images showing widespread damage to multiple US sites in the Middle East from Iranian strikes have been obtained by the BBC's US partner CBS. The photos, provided by active military personnel, show a severed radar jet, flattened trailers and severely damaged buildings. The undated photos were taken at US bases and sites in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. One member of the military, who was not named by CBS, said: This is major damage to our bases that hasn't been communicated to the American public. We're standing there with our eyes closed getting punched in the face.

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