A magnifying globe shows a plane and boats over a map of the Bermuda Triangle, the site of many 'mysterious' disappearances. Lightguard/Getty Images You won't find it on any official map, and if you're sailing in the Atlantic, you're likely not to even notice when you cross its vag...
It is less expensive to manufacture, and a bomber can carry more of them on each mission. Making a Better Bunker Buster To make bunker busters that can go even deeper, designers have three choices: They can make the weapon heavier. More weight gives the bomb more kinetic energy when it...
Divers beat physics by taking a more streamlined plunge, and faster cars and aircraft do it by sporting more aerodynamic shapes. But there comes a point, near the sound barrier, where streamlining is not enough -- a speed at which the very air that keeps your plane aloft begins to hammer...
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Night Fury eggs are oblong, almost similar to that of a chicken egg, and are smooth. To blend in with the night sky, they are jet black albeit with lighter blemishes. In Dragons: Rise of Berk, a Night Fury egg is rounder, with a scale-like pattern covering it in its entirety. ...
and, again, got it. this year the pentagon launched a potentially $55-billion effort to build a better bomber, one capable of replacing the venerable b-52 and preserving the long-range, heavy strike prowess the air force demonstrated that day off hawaii eight years ago. the "long-range ...
It was an act of the highest courage to undertake these missions in a plane not conceived, designed or ever used anywhere in the world as a bomber.Back home, we were totally unaware of the details. The radio was the only source of information and announcements of the IAF’s vi...
A magnifying globe shows a plane and boats over a map of the Bermuda Triangle, the site of many 'mysterious' disappearances. Lightguard/Getty Images You won't find it on any official map, and if you're sailing in the Atlantic, you're likely not to even notice when you cross its vag...
A magnifying globe shows a plane and boats over a map of the Bermuda Triangle, the site of many 'mysterious' disappearances. Lightguard/Getty Images You won't find it on any official map, and if you're sailing in the Atlantic, you're likely not to even notice when you cross its vag...
“That turned out to be false, because the bomber threat continued and it continues to this day, but that was the thinking at the time,” says Mayne. The plane had lost relevance, and the ballooning costs of the project and the changing political climate did the rest. ...