CURRENT ISSUE
January 2016
Features
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The Best-Built Airplane That Ever Was
The worldwide cult of the T-6.
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Almost Like Being There
Telepresence may be the smart way for people to explore Mars—and the only way to go farther.
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A Fighter Pilot at Pearl Harbor
Emmett “Cyclone” Davis remembers that horrifying day.
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Mystery Star
For well over a century, astronomers have been enchanted by the peculiar, vast, and violent Eta Carinae.
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Fly to Save the Earth
An army of volunteer pilots helps conservationists survey an endangered planet.
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Boeing: A Century of Flight
How a local company became a global giant.
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NASA Turns on the Juice
Electricity changes the shape of airplanes.
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The Lives They Saved
During the Vietnam War, the author reported on a Huey rescue mission for CBS. Forty-five years later, he tracked down the crew and the wounded to make sense of what happened that day.
Departments
Under the Eiffel Tower, Way Over the Bar at Reno
The Berlin Express pulls off a historic hat trick at the National Aviation Heritage Invitational.
Super Bowl, the Game in the Air
Directing air traffic for Super Bowl XII in New Orleans, we controllers had to be on our game.
Air & Space Interview
Meet Donald W. Srull, longtime designer of model-airplane plans published in modeler magazines.
Aviation Mystery
Flights of No Return.