Electric flying vehicle gets clearance for flight tests in the US
29 June 2023
Joby Aviation's electric flying vehicle has received regulatory permission to begin test flights in the US, ahead of delivering the vehicle to the US Air Force next year
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Joe Biden outlines plans to catalogue unidentified aerial objects
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US president Joe Biden has spoken publicly for the first time about the objects recently shot out of the sky above North America. In a press conference, he outlined how the country would deal with potential spy balloons in the future
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US Air Force plane navigates by tiny changes in Earth's magnetic field
8 July 2021
The US Air Force will conduct a test flight of an aircraft outfitted with a system that uses Earth’s magnetic fields to help navigate and is more difficult to interfere with than GPS
