Rebecca Maksel

Rebecca Maksel is a senior associate editor at Air & Space.

Poster Boys (and Girls)

Astronauts show a lighter side in their unofficial crew posters

Did you want to send that regular or express? Delivering mail by Regulus cruise missile.

When Missiles Delivered the Mail

58 years ago this month, a Regulus II missile took postal delivery to new heights.

Last November, the Curtiss SB2C-5 moved into its new digs at the Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, where it awaits restoration.

In the Museum: Wanted: TLC for Misunderstood Warbird

Challenging the Helldiver’s bad reputation.

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Top Gun: Polar Bears Need Not Apply

How did he ever pass flight school, much less become a top gun pilot?

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The Akron and Macon’s Hail Mary Pass

“One of the interesting things about airships,” says Tom Crouch, is that they were “transitional technology"

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Air Travel 2050: Panoramic Views With a Wave of the Hand

Airbus calls its Concept Plane for 2050 an aircraft “inspired by nature”

The Huey in action.

Helicopter Missions: Vietnam Firefight

The incredible story of how two Huey pilots and an engineer saved more than 100 South Vietnamese troops

"Grissom and Young," by Norman Rockwell.

NASA Art Returns to Washington

Since 1963, hundreds of artists (and musicians, poets—even one fashion designer) have interpreted NASA’s aeronautic and space projects

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Survival Tactics

During World War II, the Smithsonian Institution aided the war effort in many different ways

The verdict? "The Avrocar was a failure in every sense of the word," says Roger Connor, vertical flight curator at the National Air and Space Museum

Explanation: They Were Drunk

These absurd aircraft must be seen to be believed

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Crossing the Atlantic by Balloon (and Other Means)

When Jules Verne's novel Five Weeks in a Balloon: or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen was translated into English in 1869, it appeared with this publisher's note: "So far as the geography, the inhabitants, the animals, and the features of the countries the travellers pass ove...

Virgil Tracy (foreground) flanked by bro Gordon (orange sash), and engineer "Brains" (who designs the team's equipment).

Thunderbirds Are Go!

Relive the classic TV show at the Royal Air Force Museum

During World War II, Navy Commander Paul Garber developed a target kite (bearing the silhouette of a Japanese aircraft) for U.S. Navy ship-to-air gunnery practice.

In the Museum

Paul Garber: Eyewitness to History

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It's Fun to be Rich

On May 5, 2011,  Bonhams auction house will hold its annual space history sale. (The date commemorates the 50th anniversary of Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard's suborbital flight in Freedom 7.) Some 250 items are up for grabs, a few coming from the Forbes Collection, others from the personal collect...

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Helicopter Missions: The Taliban Gambit

It's summer 2005. In Afghanistan, a four-man U.S. Navy SEAL team has been ambushed by the Taliban.

WAVES Parachute Rigger 3rd Class demonstrating parachute packing tools and techniques.

Parachuteless Freaks

Their parachutes didn't open..and they survived

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Young Artists and the 50th Anniversary of Human Spaceflight

Each year, the National Aeronautic Association (NAA) and the National Association of State Aviation Officials (NASAO) organize an art contest meant to encourage young people to become familiar with (and participate in) aeronautics, engineering, and science."The quality of the art we see is unbeliev...

An Aviation Electronics Technician inspects the radar of an EA-6B Prowler, presumably to address that pesky humming sound.

Inside Joke

Sometimes aircraft maintenance IS a laughing matter

Surviving the Hindenburg

<em>Hindenburg: The Untold Story</em> focuses on the investigation that followed in the wake of the tragedy

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The Victory of Advertising

Just two years after the Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor, more than 475,000 women would help to manufacture aircraft for the war effort

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