CURRENT ISSUE
March 2003
Features
Miracle: A view of flight as it turns 100
Inventions seldom resemble the refined devices that evolve from them
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Meeting Wilbur and Orville
To understand the brothers, one historian found that what you know is less important than who you know.
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The Original
How the 1903 Flyer got where it is today.
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The 1903 Wright Flyer
Find out why the world's first controllable airplane was a bear to control.
I Have Today Seen Wilbur Wright and his Great White Bird
The airplane debuted to rave reviews.
Aviation's Birth Certificate
When a private collection of Wright Company papers went public, we discovered that many of our notions about the Wrights' business practices were wrong.
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Defining Moments
The inventions, institutions, gadgets, and lucky breaks that have shaped the story of the airplane
Wrong Turns
When's the last time you caught a ride in an autogiro?
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10 All-Time Great Pilots
Machines alone could not have pushed the airplane forward
10 Milestone Flights
You wouldn't have wanted to be along on most of them.