CURRENT ISSUE

May 2004

Features

If we could see all the holes gouged in the Earth by asteroids, we'd run screaming for cover.

The smaller the airshow, the closer you get to the airplanes and pilots. (And the better the food.)

Patricia Trenner

In which we survey the variety of objects to which a jet engine can be affixed.

Roger A. Mola

The only thing more durable than these Junkers Ju 52s are the mountains over which they now fly sightseers.

Linda Shiner

Seven airmen talk about the event none wants to experience.

Phil Scott

If a capsule was good enough to get a crew to the moon, these old-timers say, it's good enough to get a crew back to Earth.

James Oberg

U.S. soldiers in Vietnam heard rumors of ghosts; the Viet Cong chalked it up to bad luck.

Roger Warner

Time and tide wait for no man, but they seem to linger a little around the flying paradise of the San Juan Islands.

Tom Harpole