jan 1, 2000 - 21st century

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The first fifth-generation military fighters were produce, starting with the F-22 Raptor. Nowadays we have unmanned aircrafts as the Global Hawk the flew from Edwards AFB in the US to Australia non-stop and unrefuelled. UAVs are now an established feature of modern warfare, carrying out pinpoint attacks under the control of a remote operator.

In 2015, André Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard flew a record distance of 4,481 miles (7,211 km) from Nagoya, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii in a solar-powered plane, Solar Impulse 2. The flight took nearly five days; during the nights the aircraft used its batteries and the potential energy gained during the day.

Humanity now tends to a more clean way of transporting, and it appears to be newfound interest in returning to supersonic era.

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