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October/November 2020

Features

What Ukrainian air force pilots say about their Russian-built Su-27s.

Valeriy Romanenko; Translation by Dan Zamansky

Transatlantic passenger service as we know it began on October 23, 1945, a date that will live in obscurity.

Born one year before the end of World War II, George Lucas turned a boyhood fascination into a space epic.

Life aboard the International Space Station

With the dawn of the atomic age came a highly classified operation to intercept smuggled nuclear explosives at U.S. airports.

Can Starlink overcome the ghosts of satellite constellations past?

Did they defy the skeptics, or just outlast them?

Viewport

From the Director of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum

Up to Speed

When a small boat vanished in the Pacific, U.S. forces took to the air and mounted a desperate search.

Up to Speed

I Was There

When your co-pilot is your spouse, it changes things. But not everything.

Andrea Eldridge

At the Museum

The first to deliver coffee, clothes, and medicine take their place in history.

Reviews & Previews

A new book examines the life of the most successful fighter pilot of all time.

One More Thing

America’s first swept-wing fighter won the skies over North Korea.