F-35 fighter safety completes first test flight
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The Pentagon's costliest acquisition  project, the F-35 Lightning 2 Joint Strike Fighter, safely  completed its first test flight Friday, advancing a $276.5  billion program co-financed by the United States and eight  nations.
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The Air Force launched an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile early Wednesday, officials said, in a test flight that blasted open a 105-ton silo door for the first time in years.
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The Federal Aviation Administration said on Wednesday it has approved the first harness-type child safety device for use on commercial airline flights.
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A United Airlines plane landed  in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City on Friday, the first commercial  American airliner to fly to the country since the Vietnam War.
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Only 34 people have died in U.S. commercial airline crashes in the past three years, making it one of the safest periods in aviation history even as more Americans than ever travel by air.
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The shuttle Atlantis safely landed in Florida Wednesday, completing a successful mission to install Europe's first space laboratory.
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Investigators on Monday were trying to determine how two new aircraft equipped with the latest anti-collision technology clipped each other in flight. A crash that followed killed 155 people, the nation's worst air disaster.
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The local arm of defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. won a $45-million contract with the US government to complete a prototype designed to protect commercial airplanes from ground-based shoulder-fired missiles.
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Iranian air force pilots made successful test flights Thursday in two of Iran's new domestically manufactured fighter jet, the official Islamic Republic News Agency said.
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An F-15 fighter jet crashed Monday after colliding in mid-air with another military jet during a training exercise, Air Force officials said. The other jet landed safely, and one was seriously injured.
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The Pentagon's costliest acquisition project, the F-35 Lightning 2 Joint Strike Fighter, safely completed its first test flight Friday, advancing a $276.5 billion program co-financed by the United States and eight nations.
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The ultimate flight-to-safety investment.
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EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE - NASA&#39;s unpiloted jet briefly reached more than nine times the speed of sound in a test flight on Tuesday.
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An unmanned experimental jet broke  a world record for speed on Tuesday, cruising over the Pacific  Ocean at just under 7,000 miles per hour in a NASA test of  cutting-edge "scramjet" engine technology.
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LITTLE EGG HARBOR, NJ Nov 4, 2004 - A National Guard F-16 fighter jet on a nighttime training mission strafed an elementary school with 25 rounds of ammunition, authorities said Thursday.
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The U.S. Air Force's latest fighters are forced to abort a test flight when onboard computers clocks go awry
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Flight Safety Technologies, Inc (AMEX: FLT) announced that on February  28, 2007 it had achieved an important milestone in demonstrating the  initial functional emulation of the Aircraft Wake Safety Management  (AWSM) system.