Air & Space Magazine

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Diamonds in the Wreck

Riches to rags and back again: A 1928 mailplane is reborn.

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Pod People

They're the ones thinking outside the space capsule.

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The Contender

How Airbus got to be number one.

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Backgrounder: State of the Station

The International Space Station is on hold while NASA answers calls for attention in the order in which they are received.

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The Spin Debate

If spins can kill, why aren't pilots trained to handle them?

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The Dept. of Etc.

Small artifacts that are the garnish of most museum exhibits make a satisfying main course in a new National Air and Space Museum book.

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Air(show) Assault

With a Caribou, Mohawk, Bird Dog, Hueys, and Cobras, Army aviators are teaching the loudest history lesson you ever heard.

Launch of a German V-2 rocket, dated October 3, 1942.

The Rest of the Rocket Scientists

Some went west. This is the story of the ones who went east.

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Last Stand at Kai Tak

When the old order changed in Hong Kong, it made way for a new set of problems for a historic aero club.

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Yellow 10

Something about the Champlin Fighter Museum's Focke-Wulf 190D never seemed quite right.

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Vang's War

How the fighting in Southeast Asia transformed a curious young man into a fiercely dedicated pilot.

Ground Proximity Warnings

Better technology is helping airline pilots keep a safe distance from terrain

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Astronaut, Cosmonaut... Euronaut?

Space exploration may come naturally to Europeans, but it doesn't come easily.

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The Comet Affair

Why the cold war forced the British government to choose between keeping a friend and arming an enemy.

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Growing Pains

It's the one area of space science in which you get to eat the experiment.

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The Magical History Tour

Why are so many Golden Age airplanes traveling the country together this fall?

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Home-Grown Simulators

Nine guys who have raised puttering in the garage to an art form.

A 1942 Fairchild PT-19 Army Air Forces trainer, now owned by Wayne Boggs in Plant City, Florida, wears a Sensenich wood prop, model W86RA-61, for authenticity, and the prop even has original Sensenich decals.

Good Wood

Wooden propellers are like Louisville Sluggers: The distance

The crew of STS-26 (l. to r. Dave Hilmers, Rick Hauck, Dick Covey, George "Pinky" Nelson, and Mike Lounge) with President George H.W. Bush after the landing at Edwards AFB in California, October 3, 1988.

Is It Worth the Risk?

The astronaut who commanded the first shuttle flight after <i>Challenger</i> explains his decision.

Republic XF-84H in flight.

ZWRRWWWBRZR

That's the sound of the prop-driven XF-84H, and it brought grown men to their knees. It didn't fly all that great either

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