The SSC Tuatara is an upcoming high-performance sports car to be manufactured by SSC North America. Influenced by fighter jet performance and aerodynamics, the presence of the Tuatara inspires a sense of both intensity and simplistic design. The car is named afterreptilesendemic to New Zealand, k...
Number 3: Lockheed YF-12.This jet was an American interceptor prototype with a top speed of Mach 3.35. It looked almost like the SR-71 Blackbird and featured three Air-to-Air missiles. The reason for it looking a lot like the SR-71 was because the SR-71 was based on the YF-12, a...
In November 1966, drag racer and world land speed record holder Art Arfons crashed his jet-powered Green Monster automobile at a ferocious speed of 610 mph at Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Astonishingly, not only did Afrons survive, but he came out with just minor burns and bruises. Consid...
As it shoots up and down a 170ft tower for 55 seconds, the launcher packs in a 4G force that’s akin to blasting off in a jet fighter. Fuji-Q Takabisha/ photo: park This pseudo rocket-launcher is not the only stomach-churning behemoth under this park’s roof. Fuji-Q is also home...
The South China Morning Post, a Hong Kong-based newspaper, first brought the new technology to light in April 2024. According to the Post, the process uses lasers as a form of underwater propulsion to achieve not only stealth but super-high underwater speeds that would rival jet aircraft. ...
Japan’s airforce stated Sunday that it had recovered the frame of certainly considered one among crewmen of a fighter jet that went lacking weeks ago. The F-15 fighter jet changed into on a education assignment on January 31 whilst it disappeared from radar rapidly after setting out from Ko...
Frank Kendall Everest was a fighter pilot and flight instructor during World War II. He flew combat missions in both the Mediterranean and China-Burma-India Theaters of Operation. In May 1945 he was shot down. Everest was captured by the Japanese, held as a prisoner and tortured until the ...
Grumman X-29: The impossible fighter jet with inverted wings As a result, no Blackbird was ever shot down by enemy fire. However, its reliability was an issue, and 12 out of 32 were lost to accidents. It was also a complicated plane to operate and fly. “It took an army of people...
Both Altigreen and Exponent Energy announced their partnership in August 2022. After that, they launched their first product, the neEV Tez.