A second-stage rocket nozzle extension would be fixed and is intended to improve performance and reduce costs. Credit: Firefly The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has awarded Firefly ...

Testing of sixth-generation stealth fighter jets, dubbed J-36 and J-50, have been spotted showing futuristic design and ...

The F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II are both some of the most advanced stealth fighters in the world. Lockheed Martin ...

When a jet needs an extra kick to launch from an aircraft carrier ... could burn through the jetpipe or damage the end of the exhaust nozzle. Designers often also add pilot lights downstream ...

This is how necessity and innovation drove the aerospace sector to embrace 3D printing as a strategic enabler of efficiency.

Still, it was beautiful. Recognizable by its polished fuel tanks and control arms, custom-machined valves and foil-wrapped exhaust nozzles, stainless hoses and fiberglass backboard, it looks like ...

Modern space-faring rockets don't always rely on fins as they can reposition their individual exhaust nozzles instead. Those other rocket examples, though? They certainly benefit. While in flight ...

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July 2003-June 2005 - Travels to China six times to “provide defense services in the form of design, test support and test data analysis of technologies to assist the PRC with a cruise missile system ...