What aviation geek doesn’t love speed, new technologies, advanced manufacturing methods, and the mysteries of a secret government program? Many aircraft embody these features, but none come close to the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird. It could fly over Vietnam in eight minutes, its electronic counter measures were so advanced that...

SR-71 pilot recalls when a Soviet MiG-23 pilot asked him to bring his Blackbird at Vladivostok as a gesture of peaceful relationship. He answered him to forward his request to US state department.

The SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft was the world’s fastest jet-propelled aircraft and the most advanced member of the Blackbird family developed by Lockheed Aircraft Corporation’s clandestine “Skunk Works” division. The Blackbird was in a different category from anything that had come before. “Everything had to be invented....

SR-71 pilot recalls when his RSO Flipped Off a French Air Force Mirage III Pilot (Then They lit their Blackbird’s Afterburners and Outran him)

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Newly discovered footage shows an unseen view of the moment the World Trade Center collapsed after being struck by two passenger jets on September 11, 2001. Kei Sugimoto, who was living in the East Village in 2001, said he started filming on a Sony VX2000 just after he saw the second aircraft hit the towers.

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Unseen 9/11 video found in a closet shows moment when World Trade Center collapsed

OK Magazine

Prince William and Kate Middleton are often recognized as a power couple, but before saying "I do" in 2011, the university sweethearts split briefly in 2007. According to Robert Jobson, William "unexpectedly canceled plans to attend a New Year gathering in Dundee, arranged by the Middletons.""She sensed something was wrong," Jobson continued, referring to Kate. "It certainly wasn't helping that newspapers were confidently predicting a royal engagement. Soon afterward, seemingly out of the blue, William – now a 2nd Lieutenant in the Blues and Royals – telephoned her to suggest that they split up."The lovebirds first met in 2001, and...

'I'm Free': Prince William Celebrated Dumping Kate Middleton Over the Phone During Early Stages of Their Romance

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Butler County Coroner William Young released a one-page autopsy summary of the man who attempted to kill former President Donald Trump.

Trump shooter autopsy reveals cause of death after attempted assassination

NASA was reporting late Friday that an asteroid the size of an airplane traveling at an incomprehensible speed is headed Earth's direction, though it is unlikely to make contact, scientists said. The asteroid, named 2024 NB2, will get as close as 2,390,000 miles from Earth as it passes through the...

Asteroid headed toward Earth at remarkable speed

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The redesigned Chinook helicopter is completed at Ridley Boeing, with many more slated to be built. The first updated Chinook helicopter rolled off the assembly line in April at the Boeing Ridley plant, writes Pete Bannan for the Daily ‘Times. The event was marked with great fanfare, with Boeing...

Newly-Designed Chinook Rolls Off Boeing Ridley Assembly Line; Many More to Come

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Wadlow's condition meant he never stopped growing.

This Is The Tallest Person Ever To Have Lived

Savannah, GA

War History Online

A mid-air collision between two aircraft caused the emergency drop of a Mk 15 nuclear bomb near Tybee Island, but where exactly did it land?

Where Did the Nuke That The US Air Force Accidentally Dropped On Georgia In the 1950s Go?

Butler, PA

The gunman suspected in the attempted assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump Saturday was shot and killed by Secret Service, sources told The Post.

The shooter, identified only as a white male, was in an elevated sniper position located hundreds of yards away from Trump’s podium in Butler, Pa. as he spoke to a campaign crowd, sources said.













Rifle used in Trump assassination attempt belonged to shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks’ father: report



Bullets rang out in the middle of his remarks, Trump putting his hand to his right ear before being tackled to the ground by Secret Service agents.

Seconds later, Trump rose...

Gunman behind attempted assassination on Trump had head blown off by Secret Service, sources say; rally-goer killed

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14 Bone-Chilling Photos That Gave Me A Cold, Sinking Feeling In My Stomach

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The U.S. Navy is home to one of the largest air forces in the world, second only to the U.S. Air Force. The backbone of the Navy’s arsenal of aircraft is the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. These jets are equipped with advanced avionics and weapons systems and are designed for strike missions, air superiority, and aerial […]
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This Fighter Jet Makes Up Almost Half of the Navy’s Aircraft

The US is sending a carrier strike group, a fighter squadron and additional warships to the Middle East as the region braces for an Iranian retaliation to the killing of a senior Hamas leader in Tehran earlier this week.

US sending aircraft carrier, warships and fighter squadron to Middle East as region braces for Iranian retaliation

Interesting Engineering

An unmanned submarine conducted a first-of-its-kind survey of the underside of an Antarctic glacier.

Drone submarine finds mysterious 1,300-ft-long structures under Antarctic ice

Athlon Sports

Slovakian Olympic swimmer Tamara Potocka collapsed poolside Thursday after competing in the 200m individual medley. Potocka, 21, climbed out of the pool following her heat and fell to the ground immediately after exiting the water. She had just finished seventh in what was the third heat ...

Cause Of Olympic Swimmer's Sudden Collapse Revealed

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NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump in an interview on Tuesday claimed Vice President Kamala Harris, who is married to a Jewish man, “doesn’t like Jewish people” and seemed to agree with a radio host who called second gentleman Doug Emhoff “a crappy Jew.”

Donald Trump says Kamala Harris, who is married to a Jewish man, ‘doesn’t like Jewish people’

Rare footage captured by a camera strapped to the back of an endangered shark shows the moment it was struck by a boat, prompting the animal to dash into deep waters.

Boat hits massive 23-foot shark in rare video footage

CBS News

Two Austrian mountaineers have died while attempting to summit a 2,500-meter (8,200-foot) peak in Italy's Julian Alps, the mountain rescue service of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region bordering Austria said Thursday.Missing since Wednesday, the two men were both Alpine rescuers from the southern Austrian city of Villach close to the Slovenian and Austrian borders, the rescue service said on Facebook. Family members awaiting their return tried to reach them by phone but their calls went unanswered.They were scaling the "Cima di Riofreddo," whose peak culminates at more than 2,500 meters, when they fell either because of a mistake or a possible...

Bodies of mountaineers found dangling from climbing ropes near peak

LiveScience

Twenty doomed Starlink satellites, which were prematurely released during a botched Falcon 9 rocket launch last week, have burned up in the upper atmosphere after falling back to Earth, new data confirms. Experts are currently investigating what went wrong.

20 satellites fall from sky after catastrophic SpaceX rocket failure, triggering investigation

A top lawyer met a tragic end 30 years ago when he attempted to demonstrate the strength of his office's unbreakable glass by throwing himself against a window, only to fall 24 floors to his death when the frame, not the glass, gave way. Garry Hoy's untimely demise occurred as...

Horror after Toronto lawyer fell to his death attempting to prove glass window was unbreakable

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Once F-4 crews told the SR-71 couldn’t go vertical after takeoff. They gave up after a Blackbird did a high-performance takeoff (with sensitive equipment replaced with ballast).

The SR-71 The SR-71, the most advanced member of the Blackbird family that included the A-12 and YF-12, was designed by a team of Lockheed personnel...

Once F-4 crews told the SR-71 couldn’t go vertical after takeoff. They gave up after a Blackbird did a high-performance takeoff (with sensitive equipment replaced with ballast).

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