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January 2005

Features

What does the Northrop P-61 have in common with Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne?

Mark Gatlin

In combat trials, the RQ-4A unmanned reconnaissance aircraft showed intelligence analysts what it means to have eyes like a Hawk.

John Croft

A cosmonaut remembers the exhilaration -- and terror -- of his first space mission.

Alexei Leonov

All the action of Red Flag air combat exercises comes to movie screens through the magic of IMAX(r)

the Editors

Engineer to airplane: Stifle

Roger A. Mola

How NASA can predict when space junk will fall in your back yard.

James E. Oberg

T-34 owners are the latest to prove the value of good old-fashioned American ingenuity.

Peter Garrison