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May 2007
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The Moose Jaw Nine
What the Canadian Snowbirds have that the Navy's Blue Angels don't.
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Guide to the Great
A performer searches the airshow circuit for this season's top acts.
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Airshows 2007: Photographer's Choice
Three pros pick their favorite acts to shoot.
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VIDEO: Red Bull's Amazing Aerobatic Helicopter
Master pilot Chuck Aaron takes some wild rides on the airshow circuit.
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300,000 Airplanes
Individual effort and mass production are equally represented in a new book celebrating World War II aircraft factories.
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The Resistance
A hub of creativity for early airplane builders: North Carolina? Ohio? Nope—Oregon. And these Oregonians had an independent streak.
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That Extra Little Lift
Willard Custer's Channel Wing looked like a mistake. Turns out his critics were the ones who were wrong.
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Lunch With Willard
How a meeting 50 years ago solved a photographic mystery.
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Looking for Life in All the Wrong Places
Weird space critters could be right beneath our planetary probes.
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Fields of Dreams
Will starry-eyed entrepreneurs transform today's wide-open spaces into tomorrow's spaceports?
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The G Machine
Riding an Atlas into space was a piece of cake compared to pulling 32 Gs on the Johnsville centrifuge.
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Concerto for Merlin and Double Wasp
John Altmann thinks airplane engines make beautiful music, and has sold thousands of CDs to prove it.
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An Automobile Company Designing Airplanes
Michimasa Fujino, the president and CEO of Honda Aircraft Company.