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US loses hypersonic aircraft

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The US military has lost one of their Falcon aircraft, which is capable of hypersonic flight and which was only on its second test flight when it disappeared.

Bill Hennigan, aerospace writer with the LA Times, looks at the "darker side" of high speed flight.


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