Tony Reichhardt

Tony Reichhardt is a senior editor at Air & Space.

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A Brief History of Airline Passenger Seats

John H. Hill shares the aesthetic behind one of San Francisco Airport Museum's exhibitions.

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Tuning In

What to listen to when you're pretending to be a pilot.

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Company Expected

Three more people will soon move into the International Space Station—and they’ll be drinking, um….

Steve Hinton flies Rod Lewis's Tigercat to its new home in San Antonio.

Flying Tigercats: And Then There Were Five

A couple of strays join the prowl, and the world’s supply of flyable Grumman F7Fs increases by two-thirds.

Artist's depiction of the Jupiter-120 arriving at the launch pad.

End Run

A small band of rogue rocketeers takes on the NASA establishment.

Tokyo, typified by the blue-green lighting of Japan's cities, curves around its bay. The Emperor's Palace is visible as the dark spot in the city center, as is Narita International airport, a bright point of light to the east.

Cities at Night: An Astronaut’s View

Urban nightscapes are among the most beautiful sights in orbit

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Airmail Odyssey

Three historic mailplanes commemorated the anniversary of U.S. airmail by tracing the original coast-to-coast route.

Landing field at Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, October 1935. Note the "large white circle" called out in the directions.

The Route: Long Island to Cleveland

Pilots flying the mail cross-country in 1921 followed these directions to find landmarks along the way.

Aerial view of an airmail light beacon tower, somewhere along the New York to Chicago route, in the mid-1920s.

The Route: Cleveland to Iowa City

Pilots flying the mail cross-country in 1921 followed these directions to find landmarks along the way.

DH-4 mailplanes at Fort Crook airfield, Omaha, Nebraska, in the mid-1920s.

The Route: Iowa City to North Platte

Pilots flying the mail cross-country in 1921 followed these directions to find landmarks along the way.

A light beacon tower (used for night flying) on the airmail field in North Platte, Nebraska in the mid-1920s. The field boundary light is visible in the right foreground.

The Route: North Platte to Rock Springs

Pilots flying the mail cross-country in 1921 followed these directions to find landmarks along the way.

A Varney Air Lines Swallow outside the airmail hangar at Elko, Nevada in April 1926.

The Route: Rock Springs to Reno

Pilots flying the mail cross-country in 1921 followed these directions to find landmarks along the way.

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The Shuttle Mission No One Wants

If STS-400 launches, be prepared for one of the most dramatic spaceflights ever.

The shadow of their lander dominates a mosaic of the numbered photos Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took out their window before leaving the moon.

Finding Apollo

Forty years later, we’re about to see what the moonwalkers left behind.

The Intrepid took part in every major Pacific battle in the last two years of World War II.

Restoration: USS Intrepid

Cleaning up an aircraft carrier.

At Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, a study subject is wired for a spin in the Dynamic Environment Simulator, a centrifuge that excels in inducing spatial disorientation.

The Disorient Express

Despite the best training and technology, why do pilots still die from not knowing which end is up?

The book that robbed the enemy of his secrets. A key to shapes shows a circle can be a haystack or a gun emplacement.

Portrait of the Enemy

Photographs taken from the world’s first warplanes changed the course of battle.

Early fighter helmets, like this 1950s-era Navy APH-5, were rugged but dumb.

Then & Now: Hard Hat Zone

Then & Now: Hard Hat Zone

The X-7 mounted on its B-29 carrier.

Moments and Milestones: Hits and Missiles

Produced in cooperation with the National Aeronautic Association

Brooks Bash (center) oversees the training of Iraqi pilots and ground crew.

Commanding the Air Force Transition Team in Iraq

U.S. Air Force Brigadier General Brooks Bash talks about his position.

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