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The British Army Parachute Regiment Freefall Team.

Flight Today

It's Show Time

Download our 2008 Airshow Guide.

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Art Scholls Chipmunk (center, with the red and white stripes and the leading edges of the wings painted blue) hangs in the Boeing Aviation Hangar at the National Air and Space Museums Steven F.Udvar-Hazy Center.

Flight Today

Airplanes of the Stars

Show performers talk about their favorite rides.

Wilbur (holding onto the tail boom, suit wrinkled by prop blast) and Orville Wright (standing at front, cap backward) had high hopes that the <i>Baby Grand</i> would win the speed contest at Belmont. But the little racer never made it to the final event.

History of Flight

Ladies and Gentlemen, The Aeroplane!

In 1910, showmen flew death-defying stunts in Wright airplanes. Sometimes, death won.

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A historically accurate reproduction of the Wright Model B, built by the Wright Experience, is on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.

History of Flight

Premier Performer

For their first airshows, the Wright exhibition team relied on the Model B.

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Habersetzer operates out of Marabou Landing, a lodge about 230 miles southwest of Anchorage.

Flight Today

School of Hard Rocks

Loni Habersetzer teaches pilots how to land on the harshest terrain.

The gum wrapper is modern, but the medallion, scraps of paper, and builders plate (with the aircrafts serial number) go back to the Hawker Hurricanes years of operation in World War II.

History of Flight

Stowaways

The strange things restorers find in old aircraft.

Space Exploration

The Misunderstood Professor

When he suggested in a 1920 treatise that rockets could reach the moon, Robert Goddard sparked a public frenzy.

Peggy Krainz and pilot David Potuznik go for a spin over Gmunden, Austria. Krainz is also a general aviation flight instructor and plans to train wingwalkers.

Flight Today

My Wingwalker

If you think it's nerve-wracking on the wing, try being the one in the cockpit.

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July 2008

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Need to Know

What does it take to become an "ace"?

And has anyone ever been stripped of their status?

New Worlds

An Eye on Mercury

MESSENGER's pictures were taken by a very used camera.

Air & Space Interview

Brian Norris

A talk with an airshow operations coordinator.

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