Air & Space Magazine

During Operation Elephant, the men of the Twenty-Third Headquarters Special Troops (or "Ghost Army") replaced real vehicles with inflatable dummies in a Normandy village. Two Frenchmen on bicycles were surprised to see four GI's picking up a 40-ton Sherman tank. "The Americans are very strong," they were told.

The Ghost Army of World War II

In which a special unit used inflatable tanks, sound effects, and phony radio broadcasts to confuse the enemy.

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The View from Greenland

Jeremy Harbeck, a scientist for NASA's Operation IceBridge, hiked to an iceberg near Greenland's Thule Air Base and made this image, a composite of four 49-second images. Sunlight (at 2:30am) shines on the left side, and lights from Thule shine on the right side.

Ride Along in a P-51 Mustang in This 360° Virtual Reality Video

The future meets World War II

Aline Rhonie with her Luscombe Phantom. She told the New York "Mirror" in 1940: "I hit a man once. Socked him in the nose...and it bled. He said that women weren't good for anything but having babies...."

Artist Aline Rhonie Tried to Capture All of Early Aviation in a Single Painting

The pilot/painter’s 126-foot mural includes 600 pilots and 268 types of aircraft.

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Lakebed Lifting Bodies

The X-24A, M2-F3, and HL-10 lifting body aircraft sit parked on Rogers Dry Lake at what is now NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California in 1968.

51 Eridani b, the bright dot at the bottom, glows in near-infrared light in this image taken by the Gemini Planet Imager on December 18, 2014.

First Picture of a 'Young Jupiter' Exoplanet

51 Eridani b is the youngest, smallest, and coolest exoplanet imaged yet.

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Lagoon Nebula

Concept (ca. 2007) for an early Mars outpost.

The Next Jamestown

A new book says that a life on Mars will no longer be science fiction.

Artist’s impression of the surface of Kepler 452b, created by the SETI Institute, who have been working in conjunction with NASA.

The Most Earthlike Planet Yet Makes a Good Target for SETI

The newly discovered world gives us a preview of what Earth may look like 1.5 billion years in the future.

A recovery crew on the site of the 1979 Mt. Erebus crash.

The Man Who Solved the Mystery of Flight 901

Gordon Vette’s research helped explain one of history’s worst air disasters.

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AWACS Away

An E-3 Sentry <a href="http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/e3awacs/" target="_blank">AWACS</a> (Airborne Warning and Control System) taxis at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona.

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Earhart and Her Electra

Amelia Earhart and the Lockheed Electra in which she disappeared in July 1937.

A trio of “Pit-bots” explore a lunar cave.

Drones on the Moon

Is it possible to explore the Moon with low-altitude flying spacecraft?

Europe’s newest weather satellite, MSG-4, took this, its first image of Earth, yesterday.

As the Earth Turns

Live views of our planet, from satellites near and far.

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Curiosity's Sunset

NASA's Curiosity rover took this image as the sun set from Gale Crater.

Investigators carry the flap in question. It’s now in a French laboratory undergoing analysis.

Airplane Droppings

Pieces of airplane fall from the sky more often than you’d think.

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Thunderbird Over the Rockies

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Bring the Flow

Two mechanics stand in front of the first wind tunnel built at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia. The image shows a honeycomb structure near the front where the air was pulled through to smooth the flow.

Google’s drone delivery service is still in the testing stage.

Google’s Future Air Force

Before the Internet giant starts flying delivery drones, it has to solve another problem: cheap position tracking.

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Herculean Jump

Paratroopers perform a static line jump from a C-130J Super Hercules to prepare for an international exercise at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in April 2015.

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