aerospace plane

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Noun
  • July 12, 2024 at 6:55 p.m. EDT Listen 7 min Share Comment Save Joe Engle, the last surviving member of the test pilots who skimmed the edge of space on the X-15 rocket plane in the 1960s and who later orbited the Earth on space-shuttle missions, died July 10 at his home in Houston.
    Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
  • Virgin Galactic, the space tourism company that kicked off the SPAC boom, flew its rocket plane to the limit of the atmosphere and back this morning (May 25) for the first time in nearly two years.
    Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 25 May 2023
Noun
  • Lowering the Boom What kept supersonic transport programs like Concorde from reaching full potential forms the basis for a current X program, the X-59.
    Julie Boatman, Robb Report, 10 July 2024
  • The initial plans started in 1956, with the first in a series of studies commissioned by the British Ministry of Supply, which set about exploring the idea of a supersonic transport plane—then, as now, the sole preserve of military jets.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2023
Noun
  • In January this year, a door plug blew off an Alaska Airlines’ 737 Max jet shortly after takeoff.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 23 Oct. 2024
  • That scientists can even make out such large jets is a testament to the sensitivity of modern telescopes.
    Saima S. Iqbal, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Measuring about 5½ feet long and equipped with twin turbojets manufactured in-house by the company, the Roadrunner can be kitted out with a variety of payloads.
    Sam Dean, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • For any plane hoping to dethrone the Blackbird, its engine needs to somehow seamlessly transition between turbojet, ramjet, and back to turbojet—and Hermeus has already pulled off that delicate piece of aviation engineering.
    Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 25 Jan. 2023
Noun
  • Mexico would chase down a twin-engine turboprop, according to Scramble, an aviation newsletter.
    Penn Bullock, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Aviation Week 2024 Fleet Forecast projects total narrow body, widebody, regional and turboprop aircraft deliveries for 2024 to be at 1,796.
    Alex Krutz, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Before becoming the 41st U.S. President, George H. W. Bush received training on the Avenger TBF/TBM torpedo bomber at NAS Ft. Lauderdale from June 16 to Aug. 16, 1943.
    Lauren Ferrer, Sun Sentinel, 3 July 2024
  • Several hundred aircraft would assemble, including dive bombers, torpedo bombers and fighter planes, such as the P38 Lightnings, F4F Wildcats, F6F Hellcats, F4U Corsairs and P-40 Warhawks.
    Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023

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