The U.S. Air Force’s First ‘Raider’ Was a Funky Transport Plane [feedly]
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The U.S. Air Force's First 'Raider' Was a Funky Transport Plane
// War Is Boring - Medium
The military should have named the new B-21 the Raider II
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Read more...Axial stack battery design could unlock the era of supersonic electric airliners [feedly]
Axial stack battery design could unlock the era of supersonic electric airliners
// Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine

Luke Workman is a complete maniac. He's also one of the world's leading lithium battery pack designers for electric vehicles, and he's come up with a revolutionary battery design that he says could bring on clean, quiet, long-distance, commercial-scale supersonic airliners.
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