Editors' Picks
Area 51: Origins
America’s once-secret air base had humble beginnings.
Need for Speed
Airplanes with a mission: Fly faster.
Beyond the Moon
It’s not a place, exactly. But it could be NASA’s next destination.
The Invention of Flight
Inventors, dreamers, daredevils, charlatans: Aviation's early years had them all.
Vietnam Memoir
Stories from the war that shaped a generation.
The Annual Bensen Days fly-in welcomes rotorheads.
July 2012
| By Bill Wilson
Text messaging, from 1912 to 2012.
May 14, 2012
| By Rebecca Maksel
The Air Force's most sophisticated fighter, the F-22, has a problem with its oxygen system, and increasingly, with its image.
May 11, 2012
| By George Larson
Winners take home big prizes (and compete to be the next generation of aerospace leadership) in the Team America Rocketry Challenge.
May 11, 2012
| By Heather Goss
Want to get your message across in letters as tall as the Empire State Building and stretching across eight miles of sky? Call The Geico Skytypers.
May 08, 2012
| By Linda Shiner
The Run for the Roses starts with a flight to Churchill Downs.
May 04, 2012
| By Rebecca Maksel
To buy a piece of space history, you need plenty of cash.
May 03, 2012
| By Rebecca Maksel
Regional airliners powered by turboprop engines may be making a comeback.
April 27, 2012
| By George Larson
Watch Yves Rossy fly his jet-powered wing above the Swiss countryside.
April 24, 2012
| By Heather Goss
On his record-setting flight in 1938, the billionaire had two navigators, only one of which was human.
April 23, 2012
| By Rebecca Maksel
The National Safety Board’s recommendations may be only the beginning.
April 13, 2012
| By Linda Shiner
One company's attempt to help out in hard times.
April 06, 2012
| By George Larson
There's a reason why we don't already have them.
April 04, 2012
| By Pat Trenner
The second most plentiful element in the universe is rapidly running out here on earth.
March 30, 2012
| By George Larson
Vincent Bendix wanted his trophy to spur better and faster airplanes, and he got his wish.
March 23, 2012
| By George Larson
A well-traveled toy enters the Smithsonian collection.
March 29, 2012
| By Rebecca Maksel
The Captain assured the passengers that everything was under control, but I'm sure some of them thought this was the end. I would have, if I had been in back.
March 23, 2012
| By Steve Satre
AND the company will pay you for the privilege.
March 09, 2012
| By Pat Trenner
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