CURRENT ISSUE
March 2001
Features
Don't Mess With Switzerland
To the world's most formidable natural defenses, the Swiss have added F/A-18 Hornets and a new slant on neutrality.
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Terra Cognita
A new generation of satellites zooms in on a familiar planet.
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The Hammer
For every airplane, there's a region of the flight envelope into which it dare not fly.
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Restoration: Desperate Journey
A Junkers Ju 88 is pulled from a Norwegian lake.
Baikonur
It ain't pretty, but it sure does work.
Commentary: Metric Mayhem
Practically the entire world uses the metric system. Is it time for the United States to follow suit?
High Tension
Helicopter pilots play chicken with high-voltage power lines so crews can work on live wires.
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What Were They Thinking?
The wonderful, unworkable world of airplane design in the years before the Wright brothers.
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Made in the U.S.S.R.
Of course they copied it. The two airplanes could have been twins. But was the Soviets' Tu-4 truly an exact duplicate of the Boeing B-29?