Air & Space Magazine

A new National Air and Space Museum exhibit on our photogenic planet.

Earth's Greatest Hits

A new National Air and Space Museum exhibit on our photogenic planet.

Who painted the Red Headed Woman?

B-24 Mystery

Who painted the Red Headed Woman?

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New Marine Corps Museum

Opens November 13 in Quantico, Virginia.

Students get a chance to name part of the space station.

Name That Node

Students get a chance to name part of the space station.

A pair of Hagerstown natives pose side by side.

Rare Fairchilds

A pair of Hagerstown natives pose side by side.

Four decades after Amundsen, the airplanes started arriving.

First South Pole Landing

Four decades after Amundsen, the airplanes started arriving.

Human-powered airplanes take wing over Baltimore's Inner Harbor.

Flugtag Flyer

Human-powered airplanes take wing over Baltimore's Inner Harbor.

An early plastic mockup of the Nano Air Vehicle is about the size and shape of a maple seed.

Tomorrow's Spy Plane

A Nano Air Vehicle based on a maple seed.

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How much is my Lindbergh photo worth?

Some Lindys are luckier than others.

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Starship on a Chip

Big distance, tiny spacecraft.

Voyager ends its round-the-world trip in December 1986.

Why was the Voyager aircraft not symmetrical?

A 20-year mystery solved.

Passenger Thomas Selfridge (left) and Orville Wright prepare to take off at Fort Myer, Virginia on September 17, 1908. They crashed soon after, and Selfridge became the first air fatality.

Under the Hood of a Wright Flyer

Aviation historians and restorers get a rare peek at a 98-year-old engine.

Worden takes the controls of a PT-17 "Kaydet" Stearman biplane during the Collings Foundation Wings of Freedom 2006 tour.

The Director of NASA's Ames Research Center

Pete Worden talks about piloting a Stearman and settling the moon.

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Flyboy: David Ellison Takes Off

In his new film, the actor-pilot gets to combine his two loves.

X-35B short-takeoff and vertical-landing (STOVL) aircraft displayed at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.

The X-35 on Display

The fighter of the future comes to the Hazy Center.

Alberto Santos-Dumont’s 14 Bis had three distinctly different sets of controls, which provided the aircraft’s stability.

In the Museum

The Spirit of Santos-Dumont

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Above & Beyond: A Bougainville Mystery

Above & Beyond: A Bougainville Mystery

A prototype of NASA's Phoenix Mars Scout Stretches its 6.6 foot-long arm to scoop soil at the Death Valley National Park in California.

The Not-So-Big Dig

With the equivalent power of an electric can opener, engineers try to do more than scratch the Martian surface.

The X-35A, built to validate propulsion and flying qualities for the Joint Strike Fighter, takes flight in October 2000.

Weight Watchers

How a team of engineers and a crash diet saved the Joint Strike Fighter.

Honda's in! As announcements go, this was a whopper. More than 15 years of development preceded Honda's decision, trumpeted at this year's Oshkosh, Wisconsin fly-in, to build the HondaJet. Most attentive listeners? Other jet builders.

The Next Little Thing

Why 2006 is the year of the very light jet.

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