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A daring mission to fly combat in Vietnam came with a catchno one else could know.
New Zealand foresters are perfecting a helicopter operation that alows them to preserve forests while they extract trees.
Rather than criticize Russia's performance in the space station partnership, the U.S. should examine its own.
Hot rod racing has borrowed ideas from WWII aviation, but for some old racers, the link to airplanes is direct.
The best and the brightest and the fastest through the ages.
Ballooning's grand prize still beckons--at the end of a 15,835-mile journey.
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Grumman's triple-tail, bug-eyed, heat-seeking camera platform
How to rescue old airplanes for fun and profit.
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In the 1930s, Arthur C. Clarke and friends designed their own lunar mission.
The tale of a photographer with the Wright stuff.
The best road map for the future of space science may the the one we already have.
Names matter in Friedrichshafen, particularly that of Zeppelin.
Hope springs eternal at SLC-6, even if rockets don't.
That's all the Boeing 247 had--until 1996.
One of the Apollo program's famous launch vehicles is given a new lease on life.
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In the final days of the Vietnam war, chaos and heroism converged in the effort to evacuate U.S.-supplied aircraft.
"And the gold medal for the drop-the-skittle-in-the-doghouse event goes to the helicopter crew from..."
A squadron of Navy A-6 Intruders pulls a new--and final--assignment.
Visionaries have long seen a source for cheap, plentiful airplane engines on roads and driveways. Why then aren't more car engines in the air?
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It's a story of spacecraft meets spacecraft.
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