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Seattle's closest view of the Blue Angels, with live music, historic aircraft, family fun, and access to the Boeing Seafair ...
Boeing looked at a supersonic bomber designed to outrun enemy aircraft for the wings, the XB-70, wanting to create variable sweeping wings. This would allow the 2707 to keep its wings out straight ...
Even bigger news was Convair’s new B58 Hustler bomber, a plane eight years in development as the nation’s first truly supersonic long-range bomber. ... Boeing’s 600-m.p.h. B-47 medium bomber.
While serving as President, Jimmy Carter chose a replacement for the B-52 bomber. He rejected one concept outright, but it became part of history anyway.
The venerable Boeing B-52 came out of WWII, with plans for the huge plane starting in 1945. ... and so the military and its defense contracts began work on a supersonic bomber to outpace them. ...
Boeing Co <BA.N> and Lockheed Martin Corp <LMT.N> will announce an agreement on Friday to team up to compete for a next-generation U.S. bomber that the U.S. Air Force wants to deploy in 10 years ...
Boeing's B-1 is a long-range, multi-mission, supersonic conventional bomber. It is equipped to carry eight air-launched cruise missiles or 24 SRAMs and up to 24 nuclear bombs or 84 500-pound ...
Clipper seaplanes like the Boeing 314 were the 747s of the era, ... The Myasishchev M-70 would not just have been an amphibious nuclear-armed bomber: it would have been supersonic as well.
Five years before Concorde’s first flight, another majestic supersonic aircraft took to the skies — and almost became the inspiration for an even faster passenger plane.
The bomber crashed at around 5:50 p.m. local time "while attempting to ... multi-mission and supersonic conventional bomber, according ... Space and Security — a division of the Boeing ...
Conducted as part of the Hyundai Air and Sea Show in Miami on 24 May, the formation flight was led by a Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, flanked by a Boeing B-1B supersonic bomber and ...
Boeing looked at a supersonic bomber designed to outrun enemy aircraft for the wings, the XB-70, wanting to create variable sweeping wings.