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Cracking down on "laser losers"
The advent of cheap, powerful hand-held lasers has become a real problem for aviation
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Amy Johnson's Excellent Adventure
Reading the stories of early aviators always makes me shake my head with admiration. Consider, for example, Amy Johnson
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Playing a tune on the Moon
This is clever and cool
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Flight Lines
Some of our favorite poems about aviation.
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Fireball!
Nothing gets your attention quite like a meteor screaming in at 40 miles a second.
Remembering the fall of Saigon
On this day in 1975, the last Americans were airlifted from Saigon, bringing an end to the war in Vietnam
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How to Build a Satellite in Three Days
Walking the line between efficiency and quality
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FAA relents, will make bird strike data public
The Federal Aviation Administration has decided to make public its full database on airplane birdstrikes
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Our First Look Back at Earth
This 70 mm Hasselblad camera frame is the first photograph of the full Earth taken by a human being.
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Another big moment for Elon Musk
Entrepreneur, engineer, inventor, space explorer
Johns Hopkins tops aero research schools
The top aerospace engineering school in the country
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Hold the F-22s, Order More F-35s
The Air Force will cap production of the F-22 fighter at 187 airplanes
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How is a volcano like a jet engine?
Answer: In the sound it makes when erupting.
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George Lucas to film Tuskegee Airmen story
He's been waiting 20 years for this
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Marine One
Meet J.T. Bachmann, the first USMC pilot to fly the Joint Strike Fighter.
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The Seven
In 1959, a group of military pilots became Astronaut Heroes overnight, and created an American icon that survives to this day.
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A Humanoid Robot on the Moon?
A task force reporting to the Japanese Prime Minister has established a goal of landing a two-legged robot on the moon around 2020
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Volcanoes from Space
This website run by the University of Wisconsin at Madison has lots of interesting satellite views of the recent eruption of Mt. Redoubt in Alaska
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Spiders on (not from) Mars
An April Fool’s joke
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Flight Lines
Some of our favorite poems about aviation—updated daily during National Poetry Month.
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