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The Shortest Lived Mega Bomber You Never Heard Of – The Convair YB-60

For all its success after World War 2, the Convair B-36 Peacemaker strategic bomber was still a piston-engined machine, and it would not take long for it to be displaced by jet power. However, as the 1950s began, the company conceived an idea to extend the career of its beloved bomber: they would create a jet-propulsion version that could enter the atomic era. Continue reading

Skypersonic Conducts Trans-Atlantic Inspection of Utility Plant in Italy from Florida via Cellphone

Relying only on an internet connection from a normal cellphone, industrial drone company Skypersonic – part of publicly traded drone company Red Cat Holdings – visually inspected the interior of a fully operational utility plant in Turin, Italy, using a drone controlled from Orlando, Florida., 4,800 miles away.

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