Editors' Picks
What the astronauts really said
Apollo "onboard voice" recordings captured the moon astronauts' conversations -- cussing and all -- when no one else was listening.
Drones for Hire
The newest eyes in the sky are drawing the attention of power companies, conservation groups, and the ACLU.
Five Reasons to Like NASA’s Asteroid Retrieval Mission
So it's not the Moon or Mars. Get over it.
The Invention of Flight
Inventors, dreamers, daredevils, charlatans: Aviation's early years had them all.
Disaster at Xichang
An eyewitness speaks publicly for the first time about history’s worst launch accident.
The Web site of the Federal Aviation Administration, like most government sites, is pretty tame, but can be an interesting browse for prop-heads. For instance, clicking around the Flight Delay Information map, you’ll learn that at New York’s JFK International, “Disabled Aircraft…causing departure d...
March 11, 2009
| By Pat Trenner
Wondering who wrote the first description of flying over a landscape, I came across this charming passage by Jacques Charles, French scientist and inventor of the hydrogen balloon. Charles wasn't the first to fly—that honor goes to Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes, who fle...
March 04, 2009
| By Tony Reichhardt
Jupiter’s moon Europa is a worthy target for exploration, so don’t get me wrong. It’s good news that NASA and the European Space Agency are going forward with plans for a dual-spacecraft mission to Europa, Ganymede and Jupiter's other moons in 2020. It just means we won’t see balloons flying over S...
February 27, 2009
| By Tony Reichhardt
Michael O'Leary, head of Ireland's low-cost airline Ryanair, let slip on Friday that he was considering charging passengers to use the onboard lavoratories. "We are looking at...putting a coin slot on the toilet door," O'Leary told reporters, suggesting a British pound coin per restroom visit.Other...
February 27, 2009
| By Pat Trenner
Chesley Sullenberger and his crew have been duly credited for their successful ditching in the Hudson River. But a British pilot writes in a recent issue of Flight International:
"The crew that carried out the Hudson ditching are testimony to the fact that training pays." Well, I've only been doing...
February 26, 2009
| By Pat Trenner
Chesley Sullenberger talks about That Day, his advice for young pilots, and hitting the ditch button (or not).
February 18, 2009
| By Linda Shiner
Rest and renewal in a long-standing pilot community.
March 2009
| By Del Wilber
If you want a customer to spend $10 billion on your jet fighters, you gotta bust some Mach.
March 2009
| By Jorge and Karen Escalona
Four aircraft so ugly they could only be published on the web...
June 1997
| By Air & Space staff
When is a helicopter like a Patsy Cline song? When it falls to pieces.
January 2009
| By Peter Garrison
Where you can fly from Chicago to Atlanta without leaving your living room.
January 2009
| By Ed Regis
The masters of time are about to give us a little extra. Use it wisely.
January 2009
| By James R. Chiles
What to listen to when you're pretending to be a pilot.
November 18, 2008
| By Diane Tedeschi
Antique airplanes—the cream of the crop—fluttered around corn country to celebrate an air mail birthday.
November 18, 2008
| By airspacemag.com
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