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May 2001

Features

How two Lockheed F-104 Starfighters became airshow stars.

Carl Hoffman

Why General Electric put an airplane engine on a truck and drove it to the top of Pikes Peak.

Donald Sherman

The origins of the missing man formation.

Daniel Ford

The Lockheed L-1649A Starliner gets a makeover.

When the job demands ingenuity, NASA engineers whip gadgets worthy of James Bond.

Eric Adams

Lesson learned: never send a man to do a machine's job.

Linda Shiner

There’s something down there. And it may be Antoine De Saint-Exupéry’s P-38.

Joseph Harriss

Sam Ting is on a mission: find the other half of the universe.

Andrew Lawler

First it carried a Japanese bomb 5,000 miles across the Pacific. Then it carried Don Piccard across Minneapolis.

Don Piccard

Viewport

J.R. Dailey

In the Museum

F. Robert van der Linden

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Doug Hinton

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What could go wrong with an F6F drone? You had to ask.

O.H. Billmann

Moments and Milestones

Charles Spence