...and there's no one around to hear it, does it make a sound warp space-time? Inquiring minds want to know. Here's the answer, from a man who watched it happen.
If A Jet Engine Creates A Wormhole In The Forest...
Atlantis Hits It One Last Time
An Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle patrols Florida airspace during the final launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis in May. Adios, shuttle program — we're gonna miss ya. [Discover via Ruthless...]
Rock At Your Six O'Clock
Maj. John Baum, the No. 2 pilot with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, gives a "rock on" signal while refueling his F-16 Fighting Falcon after an air show at Grand Forks Air Force Base, N.D. last month. Photo Credit: USAF
Scramjet Destroys NASA Record, Hits Mach 5 For Three Minutes
The U.S. Air Force's experimental X-51A Waverider set a hypersonic flight record when it flew at Mach 5 — five times the speed of sound — for more than three minutes. The previous scramjet record was a mere 12 seconds.
The 140-Mph Chase Cars Of The U.S. Air Force
Fifty years ago, the United States Air Force discovered its top-secret Lockheed U-2
How Detroit's Aircraft Production Dream Crashed and Burned
Once, Detroit's carmakers wanted to be the nation's aircraft kings. For a short time during World War II, they were. Then things fell apart. Dr. Daniel Uziel of The Future of Things explains what happened. —Ed.
Air Force To Launch X-37B Robotic Space Plane
After a decade of development, the Air Force plans to launch later this month the X-37B — a robotic spacecraft resembling a small space shuttle to conduct technology tests in orbit and then glide home to a California runway.
Air Force Builds Two High-Tech Custom Muscle Cars
The U.S. Air Force has used your tax dollars to commission two highly-customized Planelopnik-infused muscle cars complete with radar-absorbing paint, proximity sensors and targeting cameras for its recruitment program. When do we get a turn at the stick?
Rocket Sled Breaks World Speed Record At Air Force Test Track
A military rocket train was propelled down a track at nearly nine times the speed of sound yesterday, thereby reaching a world land speed record for rail (though Guinness wasn't invited). The previous record was held by another rocket sled at about mach 8.5. Approximately three miles of the test was inside an inflated…
Boeing Creates Military Hummer Limos
As Slayer's Tom Araya so eloquently put it on the band's 1990 album Seasons in the Abyss, "WAAAAA- AAAAAAA- AAAAAAR!" What could be more heavy metal than a military-issue Hummer limo? Boeing Integrated Defense Systems has rounded up a bunch of six-door civilian stretch Hummers and outfitted them with extra goodies to be …
The Air Force Reserve's "Above and Beyond" Jet Car
Wherever it stops during its promotional show tours around the US, the Air Force Reserve's 26-foot-long race car usually competes with an aircraft. Of course, the car, simply a chrome-moly chassis with an aluminum skin, and a Westinghouse J-34 jet engine strapped on, has an unfair advantage in the acceleration…
