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The celebrated aeronaut found Earth-bound life difficult to navigate.
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What brought down these five airplanes?
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Hello? UFO desk? I'm calling to report a...
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Mysteries solved, secrets revealed, and questions finally answered
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Readied to transport the first U.S. ICBMs, the Douglas C-133 had a peculiar habit. It kept crashing.
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Microgravity's mysterious side effect: Stuff disappears
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A veteran reporter describes his search for the aircraft of Area 51
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Then & Now: Mercury Unmasked
Theoretical Astrophysicist, Harvard—Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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Why would the Japanese need a two-seat Ohka?
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Above & Beyond: The Oldest Powered Flying Machine?
Sightings: Guess That Airplane
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<p>A modern fighter salutes a veteran.</p>
In researching a reader's letter about "Department of Flying Saucers" in the Sept. 2010 issue, I came across a report on the Web site, UFO Casebook, which claimed that General Omar Bradley had been flown overseas to view alien beings retrieved from a UFO crash site in the Arctic Circle. The report ...
It's not new material, but if you haven't seen this, you owe it to yourself to take a couple minutes to watch. Austrian skydiver Paul Steiner did some ambitious wing walking earlier this year in this Red Bull video, with a pair of Blanix gliders flown by Ewald Roithner and Kurt Tippi high above the...
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<p>A $1.5 billion particle detector, on the fly.</p>
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You may have read about the X-37B, the U.S. Air Force's new unmanned orbital spaceplane, in our January issue. The secretive satellite with space-shuttlesque delta wings made its first launch on April 22 of this year atop an Atlas V rocket, and has been in orbit since, visible on the web via a numb...
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<p>As in, worst case.</p>
However the Copenhagen Suborbitals project turns out, you have to give these people points for nerve. The eventual plan is to launch a human to an altitude of 100 kilometers inside a capsule barely large enough to fit one person, standing up. For the moment, the Danish team would be happy just to l...
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