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Boeing 307
September 2002 | By Douglas Gantenbein

September 2002 | By Linda Shiner

Don’t wear this at home.
July 2002 | By Vincent Czaplyski

Radio-controlled models rest between rounds.

Do model airplanes ever fight each other?
September 2006 | By Joe Pappalardo

It took 28 seconds for USAir Flight 427 to plummet from the sky. It took the National Transportation Safety Board five years to figure out why.
July 2002 | By Bill Adair

For three small airports, there's no way back to life as it was before September 11.
July 2002 | By Mark Huber

An accident blamed on the catch-all "pilot error" could have a single preventable cause.
July 2002 | By Stephan Wilkinson

A NASA program that ended in 2005 generated little more than this artist

Bumper sticker in the year 2015? 2025? Ever?
January 2008 | By Mark Gatlin

Her Super Cub provides Debbie Gary a leisurely break from airshow flying.

An airshow pilot describes the trials of the comeback.
March 2002 | By Debbie Gary

Space Shuttle launches must work like clockwork. Here is how the clockwork works.
March 2002 | By Eric Adams

An ingenious new use for an old Cessna.
January 2002 | By Richard Sassaman

What 9/11 looked like from one airliner’s cockpit.
January 2002 | By Anonymous

The tricks that keep the engine from knowing it’s not right side up.
May 2002 | By Patricia Trenner

Why airshows have so many Russians on their rosters.
May 2002 | By Debbie Gary

On your next flight, the passenger in the seat beside you could be a federal air marshal.
May 2002 | By D.C. Agle

What scientists haven't solved and hot-shot pilots won't talk about.
May 2002 | By William Gregory

The airplane builders of Mundelein High.
May 2002 | By John Fleischman

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.

If you think it's nerve-wracking on the wing, try being the one in the cockpit.
May 2008 | By Debbie Gary

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

Loni Habersetzer teaches pilots how to land on the harshest terrain.
May 2008 | By Tom LeCompte

Walt Pierce helps Pat Trenner try on his Stearman wing at 1978’s Oshkosh, Wisconsin Fly-in.

Just a few minutes outside the cockpit was enough for me.
March 19, 2008 | By Patricia Trenner

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