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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.

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The X-7 mounted on its B-29 carrier.

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

Fighter pilots today need look no farther than their visors for key flight data.

September 2008 | By Roger A. Mola

The book that robbed the enemy of his secrets. A key to shapes shows a circle can be a haystack or a gun emplacement.

Photographs taken from the world’s first warplanes changed the course of battle.
September 2008 | By Robin White

Sean Connery flies an autogyro

Real pilots rate the performance of the airplanes in James Bond flicks.
September 2008 | By David Lande

November 2001 | By Diane Tedeschi

An original Boeing B-29.

The Boeing B-29
May 2002 | By J. Douglas Hinton

Pilots of the Sopwith Camel complained that the engine, guns, fuel tank, and pilot were clustered too close. They didn

Computer analysis of World War I aircraft shows precisely why some were deadly and others, death traps.
January 2008 | By Peter Garrison

Photographs from Concorde reprinted with permission from Zenith Press.

A last, longing look at the Concorde.
January 2008 | By The editors

Eleven years after restoration began, it’s now a regular at fly-ins throughout the Midwest (above, the Blakesburg, Iowa antique aircraft fly-in).

Three brothers, an inspiring teacher, and the airplane in the barn.
January 2008 | By Lemuel C. Shattuck

Here, the Spitfire leads; World War II statistics say otherwise.

In this corner, the Vickers Supermarine Spitfire; across the ring, the Hawker Hurricane. Which is the more valuable restoration?
March 2008 | By John Fleischman

A bridge overpass in the bucolic East German countryside would have been the primary target for a flight of four Fairchild anti-tank A-10s on a 1987 cold war mission. The bridge still stands.

Memorable flights and other adventures
July 2008 | By Darrel Whitcomb

Advances in modern military UAVs have made it possible to strike an enemy from relative safety miles above ground.

Stops on a tour through america's hangar
July 2008 | By Rebecca Maksel

A scene from the Army Signal Corps film "Aviation Training in the United States," shot in 1917-1918.

Rare archival footage shows Army pilots learning to fly Jennies in 1917.
May 05, 2008 | By Phillip W. Stewart

A pilot and gunner inspect the Handley.

To face the enemy in World War I, pilots first had to survive flight training.
July 2008 | By Tom LeCompte

The Junkers J-13 had an enclosed cabin, all-metal structure, and a high degree of streamlining.

Sixteen historic designs that changed the game.
May 2008 | By Richard P. Hallion

The last U.S. F-4s were retired in 1996 (a U.S. Air Force RF-4C during the Vietnam War); about 800 still fly worldwide.

Producted in Cooperation with the National Aeronautic Association.
May 2008 | By George C. Larson

Wilbur and Orville Wright

In 1910, showmen flew death-defying stunts in Wright airplanes. Sometimes, death won.
May 2008 | By Paul Glenshaw

As vice president, Gerald Ford (with pipe) toured the country in a VC-131H, one of several in the executive fleet.

How an unremarkable Convair C-131H transported cops, patients, prisoners, and Gerald Ford.
July 2008 | By Thomas DeFrank

Mark Dusenberry built and flew this replica of the Wright 1905 aircraft.

We fearlessly (or foolishly) pick 10.
July 2008 | By The Editors

25 years after the dedication of the Vietnam War Memorial...
March 18, 2008 | By airspacemag.com

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