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At Oshkosh, pride goeth before a fall.
March 1993 | By Stephan Wilkinson

Would you have spotted it? The writer and the CAP officers with him on his search flight kept missing this old aircraft wreck, one of six uncovered in the course of the Fossett search. The Nevada landscape is cruelly good at concealing wrecks.

One tough job for the U.S. Civil Air Patrol.
March 2008 | By Michael Behar

March 2008 | By Roger A. Mola

The fearsome Vigilante was meant to carry nuclear weapons but ended up lugging reconnaissance cameras.

March 2008 | By R.R. "Boom" Powell

March 2008 | By Larry Lowe

March 2008 | By Rebecca Maksel

Produced in cooperation with the National Aeronautic Association
July 2008 | By George C. Larson

Ken Blackburn designs small, unmanned research craft for the military and small, unmanned paper airplanes for everybody.

How tossing paper airplanes guided the career of an aerospace engineer.
November 2008 | By Giles Lambertson

Fred Chadwick and Ron Beatty (foreground) install temporary fasterners that hold the skin in place for riveting.

Boeing's traveling fix-it team has one goal: Get it airborne.
November 2008 | By Stephen Joiner

Australian Gary Redman won first place in the international college category for his 24-seat OIONOS commuter airplane.

Student engineers answer NASA’s call to design the airplane of 2058.
August 06, 2008 | By Michael Klesius

This 1928 Zenith biplane was a real people pleaser.

Air & Space picks the best of this year’s EAA Airventure.
August 03, 2008 | By The Editors

The world’s largest seaplane fights wildfires in California.
July 30, 2008 | By Tom LeCompte

NASA

Up there or down here, it can be a struggle to maintain “situational awareness.”
July 14, 2008 | By Roger A. Mola

September 2008 | By J. R. Dailey

Incoming correspondence is "triaged," says volunteer Guy Halford-MacLeod, who tracked down the 1963 Ozark Airline timetable to answer a recent query.

September 2008 | By Rebecca Maksel

colossal cargo airplanes

Megalifters prove you’re never too fat to fly.
September 2008 | By Kara Platoni

November 2001 | By Tom Pinardo, as told to Vincent Czaplyski

The Caudron G.4 served as a bomber and recon craft. The Museum

July 2002 | By Roger A. Mola

The Air France Concorde on display at the National Air and Space Museum

There are just three on display in the United States. Here's where to find them.
January 01, 2008 | By Diane Tedeschi

Aviation in the heartland has fewer than six degrees of separation.
January 2008 | By Rebecca Maksel

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