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Posts tagged ‘runway’

Gibraltar Airport- where planes meet cars

February 2, 2012

Gibraltar Airport

Gibraltar “The Rock” Airport is a very unusual airport and probably the only one where the runway actually intersects with a major road!

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F-16s in Elephant walk formation

December 12, 2011

F-16s taxi down a runway

You have never seen twenty-seven F-16 Fighting Falcons taxying down the runway, fully armed and ready for immediate take off and battle.  U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Rasheen Douglas

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Blackswift- hypersonic unmanned aircraft

April 20, 2011

BlackswiftIn 2007, DARPA committed to funding the development of a prototype unmanned aircraft called “Blackswift” that would be able to take off from a runway unassisted and be anywhere in the world within a few hours…
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NASA proposes a Rail Gun and a Scramjet to fire Spacecraft into Orbit

December 22, 2010

Rail Gun

The system calls for a two-mile long rail gun that will launch a scramjet, which will then fly to 200,000 feet. The scramjet will then fire a payload into orbit and return to Earth.
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