
Guy Norris
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Senior Editor at Aviation Week & Space Technology
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http://www.aviationweek.com 19-10-2011 09:24:11
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Supersonic flight was born in the Antelope Valley, and it's so exciting to see new local progress in this field. First, from Boom Aerospace (Boom Supersonic), which achieved supersonic flight last week in Mojave with their demonstrator vehicle. Then, NASA's X-59 low-boom program,








This extremely cool image was first published in my deep dive on the X-37B, an exclusive for Aviation Week, currently ungated: aviationweek.com/space/budget-p…









30 years to the day and over 1,750 deliveries later - and this first United Airlines The Boeing Company 777 is still earning its keep. Note WA001 - now at Pima Air & Space Museum museum - low flypast in background at Boeing Field delivery event in May 1995


“Spending on defence is the most important thing of all,” the oldest living RAF veteran pilot 104 year old Flt Lt Colin Bell tells the Royal Aeronautical Society #FCAS25 Summit. Without it, “everything can be taken from you in the twinkling of an eye.”