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15 May 2008
Top Story: An aircraft capable of bombing any target on earth within two hours...
By Jacob LeMessurier
Standard passenger jets travel at around 900 km/h…. could you imagine flying ten times that fast? You may not have long to wait. NASA, Boeing and a number of defence organisations have been testing and flying hypersonic aircraft for quite...
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> Aurora - Secret Hypersonic Spyplane
> Concorde - The Greatest Plane Ever Built?
> Hypersoar - Space Hopping Hyperplane
Standard passenger jets travel at around 900 km/h…. could you imagine flying ten times that fast? You may not have long to wait. NASA, Boeing and a number of defence organisations have been testing and flying hypersonic aircraft for quite...
> Read this article
> Aurora - Secret Hypersonic Spyplane
> Concorde - The Greatest Plane Ever Built?
> Hypersoar - Space Hopping Hyperplane
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The Challenger Admission
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Featured Poem
The Star-Splitter
By Robert Frost
You know Orion always comes up sideways.Throwing a leg up over our fence of mountains,And rising on his hands, he...
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The Star-Splitter
By Robert Frost
You know Orion always comes up sideways.Throwing a leg up over our fence of mountains,And rising on his hands, he...
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Facts
The first Ferris Wheel was created in 1893 by engineer George W. Ferris. It weighed 1,200 tons and was powered by two 1000 horsepower engines.> More facts
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