U.S. hypersonic aircraft crashes seconds into military test flight

Thursday, August 16, 2012 - 04:00 in Earth & Climate

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An unmanned experimental aircraft designed to fly six times the speed of sound broke apart over the Pacific Ocean seconds into a military test flight due to a faulty control fin, the U.S. Air Force said on Wednesday.

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