Air & Space Magazine

Many of the airliners that professional data trackers can no longer account for are believed to have disappeared somewhere in Africa, an enormous land mass with a number of countries that have weak civil aircraft authorities.

When Airliners Vanish

In the murky world of international aircraft deals, old airliners can end up on the dark side.

Bruce McCandless takes the Manned Maneuvering Unit for a test drive on mission 41-B in 1984.

Untethered

The MMU may have been the coolest space vehicle ever. So why did its career end as soon as it began?

Arizona pilot John Magoffin owns the last flying Lockheed Vega.

Last of the Vegas

Loved by Amelia Earhart and Wiley Post, these Lockheed beauties are museum pieces today—all but one.

This used to be an airport. Now it’s grass.

The Day They Shut Down Meigs Field

This former Chicago landmark is a cautionary tale for small airports everywhere.

A classic Stearman flying above Santa Monica Airport.

Can This Airport Be Saved?

The fight over one of the nation’s busiest single-runway general aviation airports

An Inter-Island Airways Sikorsky S-43 flies past Molokai mountains and lagoon.

Hawaii by Air

A new exhibit gives a rich account of the state’s aviation history.

Maybe I <em>Will</em> Pass on That Coffee

Stuck in an F-16 with no bathroom in sight.

Taking off from the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln as part of Operation Unified Assistance, Seahawks respond to the tsunami that hit Indonesia in December 2004.

Rescue for the Rescuers

In 2004, the USS <em>Abraham Lincoln</em> brought help to tsunami victims, and even to fellow rescuers.

Some Aircraft Get All the Luck (and Money)

And some run out of both.

A U.S. program to send television propaganda into Cuba first used a tethered balloon, then a C-130 Hercules, and finally this Gulfstream G-1, dubbed AeroMarti.

AeroMartí Signs Off

The airplane that doubled as a TV station.

Volunteers lined up to be one of thousands to help put a Zenith kit together in one week at AirVenture this year.

How to Build an Airplane in Seven Days

Volunteers gather at Oshkosh to make a “Wonder” happen.

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Bell Support

Research pilots and astronauts used the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle to simulate landing in the moon's gravity -- three-fifths that of Earth's gravity. Shown here in 1964, a Bell 47 Helicopter provides chase support, in communication with the test pilot in case any problems arose.

F-22s were first deployed to the Middle East in 2009.

Raptor Sees First Combat Over Syria

After nine years, the F-22 gets its first call to action.

Elena Serova looks through a hatch outside a space station training mockup in Houston last October.

“Not a Woman’s Profession”

Elena Serova overcame more than the rigors of cosmonaut training to reach space from today’s conservative Russia.

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A Whiskey Toast

The members of the U.S. Air Force 37th Airlift Squadron at Ramstein Air Base in Germany posed with a Douglas C-47 Skytrain called Whiskey 7 in a recreation of a 1944 photograph taken with the 37th Troop Carrier Squadron.

Engineers check out the Mars-bound MAVEN spacecraft in March 2013.

Fitness Testing for Mars

How to ready a robot for a half-billion-mile voyage

Northrop Grumman's MQ-4C Triton is the Navy's new unmanned vehicle for "Broad Area Maritime Surveillance."

Navy Drone Makes First Coast-to-Coast Test Flight

The MQ-4C Triton’s 16th test flight is its longest yet.

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Huey Lookouts

A helicopter crew chief for the 459th Airlift Squadron looks out of a UH-1N Huey during a training exercise near Yokota Air Base in Japan.

A trio of Cubesats launch from the International Space Station in 2012.

Half of All First-Time CubeSat Projects End in Failure

Half of all first-time Cubesat projects end in failure. And that’s not entirely bad.

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Vortex Studies

A Learjet and a Cessna T-37 chase a Boeing B-747 to investigate its vortex trails, made visible with smoke generators, in the sky over NASA's Dryden (now Armstrong) Flight Research Center in 1974.

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