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About Those Space Joyrides…
The first suborbital tourists will spend up to $200,000 for a few precious minutes of weightlessness. How many minutes will they get?
The Other Air Forces
Humorist Bruce McCall's small fleet of little-known aircraft.
Design by Rutan
A retrospective of Burt Rutan's high-performance art.
Space 2012: What’s Ahead
Twelve things to watch for in space next year—if the world doesn’t end.
The Kids Are Trying to Crash
Remote-control models face off in the Extreme Flight Championships.
The Witness
Want to set a record-breaking flight? You’ll need an observer from the National Aeronautic Association.
January 2012
| By Rebecca Maksel
Art and artifacts from the Marine front lines, now on display in Washington.
January 24, 2012
| By Rebecca Maksel
The first Hollywood movie showcasing airline travel, Three Guys Named Mike, came out in 1951.
January 19, 2012
| By Rebecca Maksel
After the Wright brothers flew, a handful of inventors were determined to join them.
March 2012
| By Paul Glenshaw
When the U.S. Army Air Forces needed 100,000 men to volunteer, General Hap Arnold recruited Hollywood.
March 2012
| By Mark Betancourt
Alert: If you see a Starfighter in a parking lot, contact this Dutch museum.
December 19, 2011
| By Pat Trenner
Whether you love it or hate it, John Gillespie Magee's "High Flight" remains the most enduring of aviation poems.
December 08, 2011
| By Rebecca Maksel
When the Eighth Air Force wanted to protect its bomber crews, it asked medieval armor specialists for advice.
November 21, 2011
| By Rebecca Maksel
Remember when passengers used to toss lit cigarettes out the airplane window? Honest.
November 17, 2011
| By Rebecca Maksel
Writer Joseph Heller drew on his own wartime experience for his 1961 masterpiece.
November 11, 2011
| By Rebecca Maksel
How a 1940s Interstate Cadet trainer sent a famous airshow pilot on a journey to find a kindred spirit.
January 2012
| By John Fleischman
For some reason the heli-camper never really caught on.
January 2012
| By James R. Chiles
The Boeing 247 was the Dreamliner of its day.
January 2012
| By Rebecca Maksel
A new book highlights the final Gathering of Mustangs in 2007.
November 02, 2011
| By Pat Trenner
For Halloween, a collection of weird tales about airports and aircraft.
October 25, 2011
| By Rebecca Maksel
One hundred years ago this Sunday, on October 23, 1911, Captain Carlo Piazza climbed onto his spindly Blériot XI and made military history.
October 21, 2011
| By Rebecca Maksel
A new book reopens (for the umpteenth time) the 50-year-old mystery of how, or rather why, U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld and 15 others died in a plane crash on September 18, 1961.
September 30, 2011
| By Tony Reichhardt
Designs for a fanciful Civil War airplane fetch big bucks at auction.
September 30, 2011
| By Mary Paltzer
The Canadian Air & Space Museum arrived last Tuesday to an eviction notice, a team of locksmiths and the news that four ice rinks were to be built in their space.
September 22, 2011
| By Heather Goss
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