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Northrop Grumman is better than Boeing at building stealth aircraft. Might Northrop Grumman stock be better than Boeing, too?
"This plane is bad a--," Col. Brian Buschur of Ellsworth Air Force said in discussing the B-21 stealth bomber at the Black ...
On July 27, 1956, an American B-47 of the 397th Bombardment Wing attempted a touch-and-go maneuver at the Royal Air Force ...
The B-47 Stratojet, first flown in 1947, was a revolutionary swept-wing medium bomber; six turbojets gave it a maximum speed of 610 mph. The three-man crew could deliver 10,000 pounds of bombs to ...
On March 17, 1947, the North American Aviation B-45 Tornado took flight for the first time. This early jet bomber emerged ...
Technical Sergeant Sanford Gordon Roy was shot down over Germany on Saturday, April 8, 1944. He was on a bombing mission heading to Brunswick, Germany, to destroy airfields and manufacturing plants, ...
Technical Sergeant Sanford Gordon Roy was shot down over Germany on Saturday, April 8, 1944. He was on a bombing mission heading to Brunswick, Germany, to destroy airfields and manufacturing plants, ...
THIS week in Looking Back, we remember the time than an American music star performed for troops at Burtonwood Airbase ...
The Fairey Barracuda made history as the first English all-metal aircraft built for dive-bombing and torpedo-bombing purposes ...
BOOM BOOM BOOM In researching this article, I spoke to crews of B-52s, B-47s and Vulcans and even chatted on a train with a ...
Seventy years ago, on September 17, 1955, a modified Convair B-36 departed Carswell ... didn’t propel the bomber—or power any of its systems. The reactor was aboard solely to test shielding that would ...
Beaufort Mk VIII twin engined, mid wing monoplane bomber of all metal ... Completed 47 operational missions with 7 Sqn, (sea/reconnaissance patrols including 6 strikes (4 from Tadji). F/O G.M. Smylie ...