Air & Space Magazine

An airplane ahead of its time.

Burnelli's Flying Fuselage

An airplane ahead of its time.

Two years before Apollo 8, Lunar Orbiter 1 showed us how Earth looked from the moon.

First Earthrise

Two years before Apollo 8, Lunar Orbiter 1 showed us how Earth looked from the moon.

Space station astronauts catch an Alaskan volcano blowing its stack.

Eruption from Above

Space station astronauts catch an Alaskan volcano blowing its stack.

Three more planets join the Original Nine.

Welcome to the Club

Three more planets join the Original Nine.

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Operation Hot Wheels

Far away in the Middle East, soapbox racing flies the hearts of military persons back home.

An Iraqi Air Force C-130 gets a thumbs-up from a U.S. Air Force crew chief during a July 2005 mission from Ali Air Base.

Iraq Air Force One

New pilots, new government.

The SBX, shown here on a cargo vessel in Texas, practiced two days of "weather avoidance" when Hurricane Emily arrived in the Gulf of Mexico during 2005 testing. The range of the array inside the dome is limited only by Earth's curvature.

Phased-Array Radar

It takes a big eye to see a missile coming

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We Haul It All

For armored vehicles, fossilized pachyderms, and other oversize loads, your best bet is the Russian Mi-26 helicopter.

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Superduperjumbo

Double the size of an Airbus A380? No problem, aerodynamicists say.

A U.S. Marine Corps Douglas F4D-1 Skyray in flight.

Beautiful Climber

In the summer of '58, nothing was faster to 50,000 feet

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Floaters

Mars, Venus, Titan - wherever there's air, we can explore by balloon.

The 1912 Model F flying boat, which Curtiss sold to the U.S. Army.

Glenn Curtiss Slept Here

Has Hammondsport, New York, done right by its most famous citizen?

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Commentary: Thank You For Not Flying

Helicopter ambulances could be hazardous to your health.

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Take Two

World War I airplanes star in a feature film about the Lafayette Escadrille.

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The Beaver and the Swans

How de Havilland's famous bushplane has helped protect a species.

Northrop built 13 YP-61s, which were used for flight testing. This YP-61's dorsal turret sported two guns, whereas later designs had four; counting the belly-mounted cannon, the P-61 was the most heavily armed fighter of the war.

In the Museum: High Flier

Restoring the Northrop YP-61 Black Widow

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Cessna's Golden Oldie

What flies into your mind when you hear the words "light aircraft"? We bet it's the 172.

All the shuttle's insulating tiles are marked for identification, useful for installation and accident investigation. Just 15 percent of the tiles on the shuttle's underside pose 85 percent of the risk of a tile-related accident.

Shuttle Tiles

Why the space shuttle can withstand reentry temperatures up to 2,300 degrees.

The ramp at the Udvar-Hazy Center hosts airplanes, pilots and visitors.

In the Museum: Airplane Meet 'n' Greet

A Staggerwing wows the crowd on "Become a Pilot" day.

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Airshows 2006

Across the country this season, almost 200 airshows, and every one a winner. Here's The List.

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