Air Recon Blog
A New Dawn, Partially Realized
In 1969, Pan Am was promising both the jumbo jet and the SST. In the end, we only got one of them.
May 17, 2013
| By John Sotham
Page 1 of 51
The Daily Planet Blog
Unmanned X-47B Launches from a Carrier
For the first time in history, a combat aircraft with no pilot onboard took off from an aircraft carrier at sea.
May 14, 2013
| By Tony Reichhardt
The Once and Future Moon Blog
Earth-Moon: A Watery “Double-Planet”
New work on lunar samples reveal a shared source for water in the deep interior of both Earth and Moon.
May 14, 2013
| By Paul D. Spudis
The Daily Planet Blog
Chris Hadfield’s Space Oddity
Somebody had to do it.
May 13, 2013
| By Tony Reichhardt
The Daily Planet Blog
Lockheed’s Mom
Flora Haines Loughead was a journalist, farmer, miner, and mother to two pioneers of the aviation history.
May 10, 2013
| By Tony Reichhardt
The Daily Planet Blog
Crowdsourcing Mars
Space exploration and the limits of charity.
May 09, 2013
| By Tony Reichhardt
The Daily Planet Blog
The X-51 Ends on a High Note
The Waverider soars, thanks to the longest scramjet burn ever.
May 08, 2013
| By Tony Reichhardt
Air Recon Blog
In the Age of Stratojets
A former B-47 crew chief looks back at one of the great airplanes of the 20th century.
April 30, 2013
| By John Sotham
The Daily Planet Blog
Joe Sutter and the Rough Riders
The Father of the 747 takes his inspiration from Teddy Roosevelt.
May 03, 2013
| By Linda Shiner
On Air Blog
Raiding the Trust Fund
To keep from laying off Air Traffic Controllers, Congress grabbed money intended to improve airport safety.
May 03, 2013
| By George Larson
The View from 30,000 Feet Blog
FOQA is Watching
The little black box that looks over our shoulder.
May 02, 2013
| By Steve Satre
The Daily Planet Blog
Europe’s (Really) Cool Telescope Ends Operations
The Herschel Space Telescope closes its eye after the last of its coolant evaporated this week.
April 30, 2013
| By Heather Goss
The Daily Planet Blog
Kamikaze Bats
The plan: Strap napalm bombs onto bats, and drop them over World War II Japan.
April 29, 2013
| By Rebecca Maksel
The Daily Planet Blog
Sex and the Airlines
The evolution of the stewardess, from airborne homemaker to aerial sex kitten.
April 25, 2013
| By Rebecca Maksel
The Once and Future Moon Blog
Thin Crust Moon
New data from NASA's GRAIL mission suggest that the crust of the Moon is thinner than we had thought. Is this idea consistent with the geological evidence?
April 24, 2013
| By Paul D. Spudis
The Daily Planet Blog
Lost, Not Forgotten
Wrecked aircraft from around the world are showcased in Dietmar Eckell's forthcoming book.
April 23, 2013
| By Rebecca Maksel
The View from 30,000 Feet Blog
Life on Reserve
Being on call means never knowing where you'll fly from one day to the next.
April 22, 2013
| By Steve Satre
The Daily Planet Blog
Moon Rocket Engines Reach Space At Last
It only took 40 years, but engines originally designed for the Soviet N-1 moon rocket finally left Earth yesterday.
April 22, 2013
| By Tony Reichhardt
The Daily Planet Blog
Kepler’s New Planets: Is Anybody Home?
SETI researchers have already listened in for alien transmissions.
April 19, 2013
| By Tony Reichhardt
Air Recon Blog







