We don’t generally give shout-outs to fellow bloggers, but in this case it’s deserved
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<p>All aviation shooters welcome.</p>
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<p>Good for the repose of the aero soul.</p>
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The European comet-chaser Rosetta is still years away from its destination, but we can finally see its target
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The Hawker Harrier At 50
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A photo 12 years in the making
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<p>Sort of like watching a launch through a welder's mask.</p>
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The US Airways Airbus A320 that figured in the January 2009 “Miracle on the Hudson” is headed from New Jersey to the Carolinas Aviation Museum
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“How do you feel now that Americans will have to rely on the Russians to get to orbit?”
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Jeff Greason gives a talk at the recent International Space Development Conference in Huntsville, Augustine
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<p>Forty-six years of pure freedom.</p>
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We’re still not sure whether to take the folks at Copenhagen Suborbitals seriously in their quest (eventually) to launch people into space
This video of Endeavour‘s picture-perfect landing at 2:35 a.m. today offers a little surprise, even for some veteran shuttle watchers
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The incredible story of how two Huey pilots and an engineer saved more than 100 South Vietnamese troops
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<p>Amid a symphony of starlight.</p>
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Landing a shuttle while re-adapting to gravity can be disorienting. Now there's a way to simulate it on the ground.
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Like a lot of airline pilots, I’m always on the lookout for a good trip to pick up
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With the tragedy in Joplin, Missouri this week, tornadoes have been front and center in the news
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Since 1963, hundreds of artists (and musicians, poets—even one fashion designer) have interpreted NASA’s aeronautic and space projects
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Look inside one of the only surviving B-17Gs with a combat record
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