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Nice paint jobs NASA comissioned for the 250th Anniversary of the United States founding.

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Atomicfrog said:
F-15x with refueling capabilities would be nice to make that combo work good. It would make sense for most scenario. They are working on it.

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Actually, if boom-pods are possible, it can actually revolutionise aerial refuelling.

Booms are better than probe and drogue in basically every way. Its faster, safer and easier.
It's just too big fo carrier tanker aircraft, and more expensive. If booms can be minaturised, China should also look into it asap.
 
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JetZero has started to assemble their full scale blended wing body demonstrator in California with Scaled Composites. The design has been changed to include v-tales.

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At Northrop Grumman’s Scaled Composites facility in Mojave, components of JetZero’s demonstrator are in build, including two cockpits—one flight article and one for pressure testing—fuel tanks, and windshield surrounds. In a central area of Scaled’s facility, fuselage assembly has begun—in another, MD-11 and
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757 landing gears await testing prior to integration. Fabrication of wing skins is also commencing.

A large-scale oven for curing the low temperature composites will be built around the demonstrator’s wing, to accommodate its size. JetZero’s demonstrator has a planned wingspan of 185 ft., compared to the Z4’s 213 ft.

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hasn’t thrown off timelines, Scaled President Greg Morris confirmed during a facility tour. The specialty manufacturer is building the demonstrator front-to-back, beginning with areas of more certainty. “We started with the front before we knew what the back design was,” Morris said, an approach enabled by its facility, optimized for speed and agility. Adding strength where needed is easily done, he noted. “It’s darn close to trivial.”
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Significant milestones remain. While its demonstrator will be outfitted with two Pratt & Whitney PW2040s, JetZero is navigating through the back half of an engine selection process for the production Z4. In June, the effort moved into the third of four phases, a commercial solutions opening (CSO) process, as the U.S. Air Force continues supporting studies with the Big Three engine manufacturers, JetZero explained.
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Looking ahead to milestones still to come, executives see opportunity in their timing, particularly as
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. Continuing to build and test, JetZero also plans to announce a fundraising series C by this time next year, which O’Leary expects will be “quite a bit bigger”
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