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Science & Technology - Aircraft and Missiles



  • Airships: a second age

  • They were once the future of travel. Now, more than 70 years after the Hindenburg crash, engineers are designing a new fleet of airships.
  • Heavy-lifting balloons; Flying saucers

  • A new type of balloon may make delivering people and provisions to inaccessible places easier
  • Aerion Supersonic Business Jet

  • A supersonic bizjet is one step closer.
  • Hypersonic Missiles

  • The X-51A Waverider demonstrated hypersonic flight; U.S. Air Force
  • Moller Skycar

  • New-concept VTOL aircraft
  • Solar Plane Makes First Flight

  • Record feat completes seven years of planning
  • Missile technology: Peril on the sea

  • Naval warfare: As anti-ship missile and torpedo technologies improve, a new seaborne arms race could be on the horizon
  • Electric planes: High voltage

  • Flying under electric power
  • Obama's 'Proven' SM-3 Missile Interceptor

  • May Only Succeed 20 Percent of the Time, Say Physicists
  • Surveillance or Killing?

  • US Air Force's Top-Secret X-37B
  • World's Biggest Airship Inflated for the First Time

  • Maybe a new way to Travel
  • Airliners Designed by MIT for NASA

  • Could Trim Fuel Consumption by 70 Percent
  • Currently in Orbit Amateurs track X-37B across the sky

  • Amateur Space-Watchers Identify Recon Role of the Air Force's Top-Secret X-37B
  • Eco-airship floats idea of the future

  • How will we travel in the future?
  • 中国 America’s Space Fighter: New Threat to Humanity

  • People have much reason to worry about the U.S. pursuit of absolute superiority in space