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Mon Nov 20th, 2006 | rolls-royce.com

The GE Rolls-Royce Fighter Engine Team held a successful Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for the F136 engine being developed for the F-35 Lightning II aircraft.
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Wed Nov 15th, 2006 | afmc.af.mil

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- The U.S. Air Force and Australian Department of Defence signed a multi-national research partnership Nov. 10 in Canberra, Australia, which will explore and develop fundamental hypersonic technologies, and experimental methodologies that could enable the next...
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Tue Oct 24th, 2006 | Pratt & Whitney

EAST HARTFORD, Conn., Oct. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pratt & Whitney announced today the certification of its F135 engine to power the Lightning II's first flight later this year after successfully completing all tests scheduled to date. Pratt & Whitney is a unit of United Technologies Corp.
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Mon Aug 7th, 2006 | boeing.com

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 07, 2006 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] and the U.S. Air Force achieved major progress in their relay system development program by successfully redirecting a laser beam to a target using their Aerospace Relay Mirror System (ARMS).
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Thu Jun 15th, 2006 | airlaunchllc.com

KIRKLAND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 15, 2006--AirLaunch LLC, DARPA and the Air Force made history yesterday as a simulated AirLaunch QuickReach(TM) rocket weighing 65,000 lbs was dropped out of a C-17A cargo aircraft, making it the heaviest single load to ever be dropped out of the plane.