Air & Space Magazine

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Veteran Astronaut Story Musgrave

The only person to fly on all five space shuttle orbiters.

The space shuttle’s cargo bay is more than just a shipping container. It’s also a workspace for spacewalkers.

The Truck

Satellites, experiments, space station parts - the space shuttle hauled it all.

Fort Worth, a B-36J, basks in restored glory.

Monster Bomber

At the Pima Air and Space Museum, the B-36 is the largest U.S. warplane ever rebuilt

Unlike the flash-in-the-pan types, John Ninomiya have put years into the pursuit.

The Drifters

Of wind, helium, and hope — plus the occasional disaster.

No cats were successfully or unsuccessfully degaussed for this article.

How to Degauss a Cat

How to Degauss a Cat

Bud Evans reunites with a piece of his F-104.

Soundings

Soundings

AT-6 Harvard walk on water

Sightings: Water Striders

South African pilots go lake-skiing in their AT-6s.

John Alcock and Arthur Brown survived a not-so-pretty landing in an Irish bog.

Reviews and Previews: The Unstoppables

Cloudy skies, freezing rain, and mechanical trouble couldn’t keep a pair of British fliers from crossing the Atlantic in an open-cockpit biplane.

Mark Lewis shown here exiting an F-15.

How to Win Enemies and Influence Policy

From the halls of power to field laboratories, the Air Force Chief Scientist helps shape the future of U.S. flight.

Right of Passage: In contrast to the early days of commercial airline travel, today, airport security officers screen passengers and their carry-on baggage in an effort to prevent attacks.

Moments and Milestones: Perfecting the People Filter

Moments and Milestones: Perfecting the People Filter

Early aerial refueling required catching the hose by hand, as the back-seater in the de Havilland DH-4B (left) did in 1923.

Then & Now: Fill ’er Up

Then & Now: Fill ’er Up

John, Joe, George, and Matt Savidge (from left) with one of their biplanes, ca. 1912. Legend has it that Barney, a one-eyed barn cat, served as test pilot on the scaled-down version. In January 2009, the brothers were inducted into the Nebraska Aviation Hall of Fame.

In the Museum: Life Among the Savidges

In the Museum: Life Among the Savidges

Bell has built a Scorpion Too and an Executive, complete with trailer.

Build-It-Yourself Helicopters

If you have 700 hours to spare and can shim a rotor assembly to within .001 of an inch, here's a hobby for you

The DC-X backs into its parking spot at White Sands in September 1993.

Black Day at White Sands

What goes up, must come down. In the Delta Clipper's case, really hard.

John Mohr shows what sets him apart from the rest.

Barnstorming in the Blood

One of the world's most inventive pilots makes everything old look new again.

Thirty-eight WASPs died in service. Mary Hartson (left, with Jerry Hardman, center) was killed in a BT-13 crash in 1944.

My Mother Flew Bombers

In 1939, at the age of 17, Geraldine Hardman found her dream job.

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The Air Force in 2030

Forecasting technology is a notoriously tricky business. In spite of all the predictions, we still don't have fusion power or flying cars, but in 2010 you can kick around a virtual soccer ball using a handheld camera phone, and who saw that coming?It's the job of the Air Force Chief Scientist and h...

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NASA's Next Mars Rover

The Curiosity rover, scheduled for launch to Mars next year, took its first test drive last week.

North American RB-45C (S/N 48-033) rocket-assisted take off. (U.S. Air Force photo)

Across the Pacific

<p>It was no Spirit of St. Louis, but...</p>

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Product Placement Worth its Salt

Of all the high-end executive transports to choose from Sony opted for the Piaggio Avanti

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