New US jump jet boosts capability - but lands Marines in hot water
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The fighter plane, and a controversial jump-jet transport, would fulfill a 50-year-old goal for the corps.
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BAGHDAD -- The US command has ordered changes in flight operations after four helicopters were shot down in the last two weeks, the chief military spokesman said yesterday, acknowledging for the first time that the aircraft were lost to hostile fire.
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US jets struck Fallujah with five air raids in 12 hours, softening up the insurgent stronghold for an expected major assault. Guerrillas responded with a rocket attack Friday
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Jumbo wants pork The Airborne Laser, the US Missile Defence programme's raygun-equipped jumbo jet, is to visit Washington tonight in an attempt to drum up support on Capitol Hill.â¦
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MOJAVE, Calif.--As the sun cracked the ragged horizon of the Mojave Desert on Wednesday, the White Knight aircraft taxied onto the runway looking like a gigantic model glider with an oversize torpedo latched to its belly.
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A U.S. Marine Corps Harrier fighter  jet crashed into the Indian Ocean off the west coast of Sumatra  on Thursday but the pilot was rescued by a helicopter and  sustained only minor injuries, the military said.
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LOS ANGELES Nov 17, 2004 - An unmanned NASA jet screamed into the record books high over the Pacific Ocean by reaching speeds of almost 7,000 mph, brightening hopes that humans might one day be able to fly across a continent in minutes instead of hours.
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The first in a new generation of US heavy-lift rockets, the Boeing Delta 4 Heavy, made its maiden flight on Tuesday, from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
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The controversial tilt-rotor aircraft has defied its critics with its performance to date in its harsh new landscape.
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Unmanned aircraft with hydrogen engine does well in preliminary tests.
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A small, unmanned NASA jet flew into the record books Tuesday, setting a speed record for jet planes when it screamed out over the Pacific Ocean at Mach 9.6 speed -- almost 10 times the speed of sound -- project officials announced.
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The US military unveils a "revolutionary" heat-ray gun to repel enemies or disperse hostile crowds.
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Nasa&#39;s X-43A, the world&#39;s fastest jet, was launched over the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday in an attempt to fly at 10 times the speed of sound, Mach 10.
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US marines launch a search and rescue operation after a helicopter full of troops crashes in western Iraq.
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The United States Air Force will push development of a new fuel to power its bombers and fighters, mixing conventional and nonpetroleum fuels.
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An unmanned experimental jet broke  a world record for speed on Tuesday by accelerating to about  7,000 miles per hour high over the Pacific Ocean in a NASA test  of cutting-edge engine technology.
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FALLUJAH, Iraq -- American military officials say a US jet has made a &quot;successful&quot; strike on a suspected militant hideout in Fallujah.