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<p>Or just trouble makers?</p>
Sonic Boom
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This website run by the University of Wisconsin at Madison has lots of interesting satellite views of the recent eruption of Mt. Redoubt in Alaska
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<p>An orbiting observatory awaits its final servicing.</p>
The Race
To capitalize, or not to capitalize? That is the question.
An Airstrip in Essex 1960
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<p>Solar-powered flight is hardly a new idea.</p>
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An April Fool’s joke
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Some of our favorite poems about aviation—updated daily during National Poetry Month.
An Emblem of Byzantium
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First Man, the 2005 authorized biography of Neil Armstrong, by James R. Hansen
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<p>Bringing a piece of home to orbit.</p>
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On this day in 1922, a pair of Portuguese aviators, Sacadura Cabral and Gago Coutinho, set off on the first flight across the southern Atlantic
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You can't believe everything you read on the internet, especially where Soviet aircraft are concerned
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<p>When the airplane's gone, what's left behind?</p>
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Population: Zero. Threat level: High
This is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time
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An extremely uncommon type of asteroid is found in the Nubian Desert
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