Rebecca Maksel

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

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What Does An Emergency Flight Nurse Fear Most?

This summer, the Boy Scouts of America celebrate their 100th anniversary, and the U.S. Postal Service has unveiled a spiffy new stamp to honor the organization.One of my favorite Scouting quotes comes from Janice Hudson's Trauma Junkie: Memoirs of an Emergency Flight Nurse. Hudson worked for many y...

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Asteroid Trackers

Scientists are keeping tabs on an asteroid called Apophis, an 820-foot chunk of rock moseying toward Earth at about 22 miles per second. Apophis—named after an ancient Egyptian god of evil, naturally—will pass near our planet in 2029. How near is near? Closer than our own communication satellites.B...

Earhart and Gallagher family.

Amelia Earhart's Irish Sojourn

Earhart makes a bumpy landing in Northern Ireland

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HAM the Astrochimp

"He was every bit the astronaut that any of the Mercury 7 were."

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Flying While Female

China has selected its first two female astronauts, Space.com recently reported. But, unlike their male counterparts, females have to be married. “We believe married women would be more physically and psychologically mature,” Zhang Jianqui, the former deputy commander of China’s spaceflight program...

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The World War II History of the Wright Military Flyer

The two-seat biplane looks somewhat flimsy. Sure, it was cutting-edge in 1909 when the Wrights demonstrated it for the U.S. Army Signal Corps at Fort Meyer. But how would it fare during World War II?Fortunately, the Wright Military Flyer never had to compete in any dogfights. But it did travel from...

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The Battle of Britain Beacon

To mark this year's 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, the Royal Air Force Museum has begun  initial planning for a new exhibition building, tentatively called the Battle of Britain Beacon.The 350-foot-tall structure (taller than Big Ben, the Statue of Liberty, and the United States Capitol...

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Uniform Justice

Ah, uniforms. People either love 'em or hate 'em.

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Last of the Invaders

A reader tips us off to the restoration of a rare bird.

The Wall of Honor at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.

In the Museum: Honor Roll

In the Museum: Honor Roll

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The Aerodynamic Properties of the Humvee

What springs to mind when thinking of the Humvee? Its sleek, aerodynamic lines? Well, no. But that didn't stop DARPA from announcing (in a 58-page proposal) its plans for combining an SUV-type ground vehicle with Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) capabilities. In other words, a flying Humvee.DAR...

Katherine Peterson teaches visitors about airport codes.

In the Museum: A la Cart

In the Museum: A la Cart

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Super Fly: Celebrities and Airplanes

Kitty Kelley's recent tell-all biography of Oprah Winfrey revealed that the talk-show diva owns a $47 million Bombardier BD-700 Global Express high-speed jet. According to biographer Kelley, when Winfrey upgraded from a $40 million Gulfstream in 2006, she also spent $1 million refurbishing her hang...

Stealth: Flying Invisible

Exploring the history of stealth

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Momentous Memorabilia

“Well I can’t say that this thing hasn’t been filled with excitement,” said astronaut Jim Lovell as Apollo 13's crew crowded into the Command Module Odyssey—following the explosion of an onboard tank in the Service Module—and headed back to Earth. CapCom immediately joked, "Well, James, if you can'...

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Not Your Average Seagull

On April 13, Bonhams auction house will offer a 1917 Curtiss MF "Seagull" Flying Boat for sale. The MF (which stands for "Modernised F-boat") was developed in 1917 from the original F model, a design the U.S. Navy had been using since 1912/1913. (The F model was the most successful of the pre-war C...

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America In Space

“The first decade in the Space Age was a unique moment in human history,” says Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum curator Roger Launius. “For the first time, humanity ventured off its home planet, to explore the moon and elsewhere. And along the way, we experienced both excitement and someti...

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Talking Trash

Green America's February 2010 report, What Goes Up Must Come Down: The Sorry State of Recycling in the Airline Industry, takes the study of garbage to new heights. It seems that the average passenger generates 1.3 pounds of refuse per flight, which doesn't sound like a lot, until you consider that ...

A Tiltrotor Squadron in Afghanistan

Scenes of a Marine unit flying the incredible, versatile Osprey.

Colonel Roscoe Turner, Gilmore the lion, and Donald A. Young, posed behind left wheel cover of Lockheed Express 3.

More Animals Aloft

Taking dogs and cats to new heights.

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