Who built the first US jet engine? GEBuilds America's First Jet Engine In 1941, the U.S. Army Air Corps picked GE's Lynn, Massachusetts, plant to build a jet engine based on the design of Britain's Sir Frank Whittle. Six months later, on April 18, 1942, GE engineers successfully ...
The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird long-range reconnaissance aircraft, used by the United States Air Force between 1964 and 1998, is the jet with the fastest speed record at 3.3 Mach (2,200 mph). Who died on the Concorde crash? Parts of the Concorde fell directly on to that part of the hote...
New clues reveal the likely builder of the Air Force's secret new sixth-generation fighter jet. This defense contractor isn't being very coy.
it has built props and vehicles for live free or die hard, blade, and batman & robin, for which it created the batmobile, the freeze-mobile, batgirl’s cycle, robin’s cycle, and 18 suits of illuminated armor for mr. freeze, played by another austrian, arnold schwarzenegger. thompson had...
and was the only airframe to require a flight engineer in order to fly, while every other airframe replaced this role with a computer. Twenty examples were built, and six of those were for testing and prototyping. Only 14 entered commercial service. Now they reside in museums arou...