Air & Space Magazine

Designed by Paulo Iscold and pulled through the air by a custom-built propeller, Anequim climbs, aiming for glory.

The Next World Speed Record

Has a young Brazilian professor created the fastest raceplane in its class?

There are only 300,000 African elephants left, down from 1.3 million just 20 years ago. About 100 elephants are killed each day. Here, two elephants enjoy a watering hole in the Serengeti, in September 2009.

Pilots vs. Poachers

The future of elephant survival may depend, in part, on aerial patrols.

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The Screamin’ Sasquatch at Oshkosh

The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgLKvRknQ24" target="_blank">Screamin' Sasquatch</a> is a 1929 Taperwing Waco biplane that Jack Links (they make beef jerky, of course) slapped a jet engine on (because, why not?). Jeff Boerboon, a U.S. Unlimited Aerobatics champion, is piloting the airplane, next to Sean D. Tucker in the Oracle Challenger III. Visitors to EAA's AirVenture in Oshkosh this week can get a live look at the Sasquatch.

Rear Adm. Edward L. “Whitey” Feightner is a nine-victory WWII ace who flew F4F Wildcats and F6F Hellcats.

The Tale of Whitey Feightner

An interview with biographer Peter Mersky, who chronicles the long career of an American ace.

An F/A-18E Super Hornet from the Tophatters of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 14 flies past aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis in April 2013.

About That F-18 Photo

Nope, it’s not a fake.

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F-22 Raptor Demonstration

The spacesuit Neil Armstrong wore when he was the first person to step on the moon resides in the National Air and Space Museum's collection.

Even Neil Armstrong Gets a Kickstarter Campaign

Smithsonian’s first crowdsourcing project will help digitize the famous Apollo 11 spacesuit.

Selecting a Landing Site for Humans on Mars

NASA takes a small step toward a big decision.

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Fiery Eclipse Show

The European Space Agency's Proba-2 satellite took this image during the March 20, 2015 solar eclipse.

July 16, 1945, over Alamogordo, New Mexico.

Seventy Years After the Trinity Test, There Are 16,000 Nuclear Weapons in the World

And it all started with three explosions in the summer of 1945.

Swirls near Mare Marginis on the eastern limb (20˚N, 90˚E) of the Moon. This region hosts magnetic anomalies, grooved terrain, and is antipodal to the youngest basin on the Moon, Orientale. The origin of lunar swirls is still unknown.

Swirling Controversy

The origins of strange swirl-like markings on the lunar surface are still mysterious.

Artist's view of New Horizons flying past Pluto

Stowaways on New Horizons

Three not-so-official plaques made it all the way to Pluto.

Is that you, Pluto? Photo taken by Edward Barnard on November 11, 1909, with the suspected planet marked.

Are These 1909 Photos the Oldest Pictures of Pluto?

Maybe.

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Mountain Terrain Training

Airmen from the 40th Helicopter Squadron fly a UH-1N Iroquois over a mountain range in Montana.

The ALSIB Memorial in Fairbanks.

Hello Again, Comrades! (Здравствуйте еще раз, товарищи!)

The U.S. and Russia share a long flight to commemorate a long history.

A menagerie of known trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), shown to scale.

Any More Big Planets Out There?

Pluto is not the only large object beyond Neptune.

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Shuttle Stack Assembly

At NASA's Marshall Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the Enterprise orbiter was mated for the first time with the external tank and solid rocket boosters. 1978.

"Hades; Persephone in the Underworld (Offering to Proserpine)" by Felice Giani, ca. 1820. The dwarf planet is named after Pluto, Roman god of the underworld, who is seated in the middle on the platform at the right; names for newly discovered planetary features will likely follow this theme.

Pluto’s Naming Game

New Horizons is about to discover a mess of new planetary features. What will we call them?

Images of Pluto taken with Hubble’s Faint Object Camera in June and July 1994 were enhanced and processed to make a global map of the planet at different longitudes. The tile pattern is an artifact of the processing.

Taking Pluto’s Portrait

Even the mighty Hubble Space Telescope has to strain to see this tiny, distant planet.

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Flying Boat Face-on

A Consolidated PBY Catalina at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi in 1942.

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