CURRENT ISSUE
July 2009
Features
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Step Outside
Shuck the spacecraft. 182 spacewalkers have.
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Where the Wild Things Are
We’re about to get a peek at the solar system’s final frontier.
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The Six
If Lockheed’s Constellation was the hare, the Douglas DC-6 was the oh-so-reliable tortoise.
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Travels with Churchill
A World War II flight engineer dishes on the most “I” of the VIPs he flew with.
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Tumbling with the Stars
Today’s airshow performers do it gyroscopically.
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The Billy Mitchell Court-Martial
Courtroom sketches from aviation's Trial of the Century.
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Fire Hazard
Where there’s smoke, there’s pollution. How can airport firefighters green it up?
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Unmanned Traffic Jam
To the Federal Aviation Administration, civilian UAVs are the new barbarians at the gate.
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Fear of Floating
Diagnosis: Collective Panic Attack. Cause: Count von Zeppelin.
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The Dawn of Discipline
A B-47 pilot remembers when an airplane—and Curtis LeMay—stiffened the spine of the Strategic Air Command.