CURRENT ISSUE

July 2004

Features

Fun: flying south for the winter. More fun: flying every day

Debbie Gary

Seddik Belyamani wrote the book on selling passenger jets.

Bill Sweetman

Ghost alarms, foul odors, and a tourist season? Life aboard the International Space Station.

Thomas D. Jones

There's hardly a combat mission that the A-4 Skyhawk hasn't flown.

Graham Chandler

Once airliners implement this pending FAA rule, a spark will no longer become a flame

Titan, the only major body in the solar system that we haven't gotten a good look at, is about to be outed.

Craig Mellow

We want speed! We want vertical lift! The Bell XV-3 Tilt-rotor was the first to satisfy all aeronautical tastes.

Jay Miller

Never operate your airplane engine lean of peak exhaust gas temperature. These guys aren't buyin' it

What they lacked in strength, World War II escort carriers made up in numbers...and the perseverance of their crews.

James L. Noles, Jr