Air & Space Magazine

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How Things Work: Flying Fuel Cells

Out of gas? Not a problem.

With $79 million on the line, NASA hopes a crash landing detected by a companion spacecraft will yield valuable data about lunar ice.

Lunar Smackdown

A spacecraft bites the lunar dust.

A U.S. Navy pilot briefs an Indian reporter before a VIP flight at Aero India in 2007.

Supersonic Sales Call

If you want a customer to spend $10 billion on your jet fighters, you gotta bust some Mach.

Roger Guest strolls the lawns, where airplanes (Cub, foreground; Citabria, background) rather than cars rule.

A Walk in the Airpark

Rest and renewal in a long-standing pilot community.

Even though the rugged airplane had survived an emergency nosewheel landing on its second test fight, the Jetliner’s days were numbered. Not even interest from Howard Hughes (opposite, top) was enough to save it. Instead, Avro ramped up production of its CF-100 fighters (left).

Woe Canada

The only thing that kept Canada from beating the U.S. to a jet airliner was Canada.

Max Q performs at the STS–114 mission success celebration at Space Center Houston in 2005.

Max Q Live

In space no one can hear you sing.

British tycoon Sir Richard Branson (left) and maverick aerospace designer Burt Rutan are racing to put the first paying passengers into space — at $200,000 per 2 1/2-hour flight.

License to Thrill

Meet the first commercial rocketship pilots.

Craig Breedlove’s Spirit of America Sonic 1 employed the transonic area rule via its high-waisted fuselage. Area ruling, which reduces drag at transonic speeds, enabled the early 1960s Convair F-102 to reach Mach 1.2.

The Bonneville Jet Wars

A California hot-rodder took on the feuding Arfons brothers in the 1960s.

Jimmy Doolittle is dwarfed by the monstrous, menacing Gee Bee R-1 Super Sportster.

Bring Back the Brute

A GeeBee racer in flyable condition? Don’t do it.

Luis and Walter Alvarez at the KT boundary. Dinosaurs on the bottom right; little critters on the top left.

Human Spaceflight: What Value to Science? (Pt. 1)

Robots vs. astronauts

Artist's concept of the Titan Saturn System Mission

Your Flight to Titan Is Delayed

We won’t see balloons flying over Saturn’s moon Titan any time soon.

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Pay-Per-Loo

Michael O'Leary, head of Ireland's low-cost airline Ryanair, let slip on Friday that he was considering charging passengers to use the onboard lavoratories

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Pioneering Pilots

<p>A Florida flight museum honors African-American aviators.</p>

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He's Got A Point

"The crew that carried out the Hudson ditching are testimony to the fact that training pays"

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Lulin's Twin Tails

<p>A visitor from deep space brightens the night sky.</p>

AFA Air France Delivery Flyaway of First 777 Freighter at Paine Field Everett WA K64632-04

Cargo-ready

<p>A people hauler becomes a freight hauler.</p>

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Another Strategic Plan Misfires

There seems to be no end of new “strategic plans” designed to “save” our nation’s space program from the purgatory of mediocrity.

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Jovian Junket

<p>NASA and ESA head back out to the big planets.</p>

Musical Airs

Songs inspired by the early age of flight.

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Two-Timer

Where do you take your next vacation after you’ve been to space? If you’re billionaire Charles Simonyi, you go back.

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