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Los Angeles mistakes supersonic Navy flight for earthquake

Many of the Los Angeles populace mistook a supersonic Navy flight for an earthquake Wednesday. A U.S. Navy aircraft broke the sound barrier over Orange County and the sonic boom was mistaken for an earthquake. The flight departed from the USS Ronald Reagan, which was stationed nearly 50 miles off the coast, and the reverberations […]

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Successor to record-setting SR-71 Blackbird spy plane revealed, capable of Mach 6 speeds

Nearly half a century after the introduction of the SR-71 Blackbird, Lockheed Martin has finally unveiled the record setting spy plane’s successor, the SR-72. The SR-72 will be nearly the same size as the Blackbird, but capable of flying twice as fast, streaking across the sky at a blisteringly fast cruising speed of Mach 6. […]

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