Aviation News
Two optical spy satellites from the cancelled Future Imagery Architecture program may get a chance to go into space under NASA’s WFIRST-AFTA (the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope-Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets) program.
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Credit: NASA
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A rare Spitfire Mark 1 that was shot down over Dunkirk 75 years ago is going under the hammer at Christie’s ‘Exceptional Sale’ this July.
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The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has invented a new way of making transparent spinel, a mineral that is tougher, stronger, harder than glass.
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U.S. Naval Research Laboratory/Jamie Hartman
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Gripen program chief Jerker Ahlqvist told journalists that Slovakia had selected the Gripen and Saab hopes to sign the contract this year.
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By Milan Nykodym [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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One of the F-2Bs damaged during the 2011 TÅhoku earthquake and tsunami has been fully restored and arrived at its new home in Misawa Air Base on Apr. 21.
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U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Jordyn Fetter
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