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Reconstruction of a South African Airways Boeing 747 has failed to reveal what started an onboard fire, which led to the loss of 19 crew members and 140 passengers.

What brought down these five airplanes?
September 2010 | By Lester A. Reingold

The islands of Bermuda beckon to passengers on a Lockheed C-121C Super Constellation in 1956. There may have been some nervousness in the cabin. Today most travelers don’t give flying into the Bermuda

Mysteries solved, secrets revealed, and questions finally answered.
September 2010 | By The Editors

Right of Passage: In contrast to the early days of commercial airline travel, today, airport security officers screen passengers and their carry-on baggage in an effort to prevent attacks.

August 2010 | By George C. Larson, Member, NAA

John, Joe, George, and Matt Savidge (from left) with one of their biplanes, ca. 1912.

August 2010 | By Tom Crouch

A half-baked excuse for an airplane, cobbled together in 1948, spent its entire life eroding in a Colorado desert.

June 2010 | By Lewis A. Bartlett

From left to right Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright chat with Wright Exhibition Team pilot Walter Brookins at Indianapolis Indiana June 1910

July 2010 | By George C. Larson, Member, NAA

Levy’s caption for the Gwinn Aircar shows how connected he was to the activity swirling around Floyd Bennett Field, where this photo was made, in the late 1930s.

If you read airplane magazines, you've seen Howard Levy's photographs.
July 2010 | By The Editors

The Mizar at Oxnard Airport in August 1973.

July 2010 | By Peter Garrison

A crew member filmed cloud behavior.

Irving Langmuir tried to change the world one storm at a time.
July 2010 | By Sam Kean

Rare warbirds star in a California airshow.
May 11, 2010 | By Linda Shiner

Antique aircraft enthusiasts Frank Pavliga and Ted Davis tinker with the Ford Model A engine on the Pietenpol Air Camper that has become a community property within the Brodhead Pietenpol Association.

Some airplanes, like some friendships, improve with age.
March 2010 | By Linda Shiner

The turbojet engine grew so reliable that passengers can now fly direct routes across the globe.

May 2010 | By George C. Larson, Member, NAA

The author went on to fly anti-submarine P2V Neptunes.

May 2010 | By William J. Onderdonk

May 2010 | By J.R. Dailey

Stashing the parachute in a backpack, Broadwick saved future jumpers from injury or death. Three Broadwick packs survive today; one is stored at the National Air and Space Museum.

Charles Broadwick invented a new way of falling.
May 2010 | By Lisa Ritter

Kevin Lacey, here with a repossessed Citation VII, gets the job done by striking an effective balance between folksy and wily.

How to repossess an airliner without getting shot, or thrown in jail, or beat up, or slammed into a wall, or...
May 2010 | By Stephen Joiner

Canadian lads, eager for a brush with World War II glory

The author remembers childhood, with round engines.
January 2010 | By Bruce McCall

Dick Navratil, who owns two Pietenpols.

With little more than Bernard Pietenpol's plans, anybody could build an airplane.
May 2010 | By Marshall Lumsden

<b><i>Why fly solo</b></i> when you can bring along a passenger? That’s probably what Bernard Pietenpol was thinking when he designed and built the Air Camper, a two-seat monoplane.<br><br> Pietenpol lived a simple life in rural Minnesota. When he wasn’t working in his television repair shop in Cherry Grove, he almost always had an airplane under construction: wood airframe, fabric covering, and an engine lifted from an automobile. And when the airplane was finished, it was put to use flying low and slow over acres of farmland. Pietenpol’s two sons, Kermit and Don, and his six grandchildren all grew up seeing their world from above. For the Pietenpol family, airplanes weren’t really a mode of transportation—a way to get from one point to another. Flying was a pleasure all its own, and getting aloft in an open-cockpit airplane was the best way to enjoy a long summer day. Generations of Pietenpol homebuilders agree.<br><br> Pictured above: Don often sat alongside his father, who resorted to strapping his son in with a men’s belt because the no-frills Air Campers had no safety harnesses.

Bernard Pietenpol’s happiest moments came when he was flying one of his homebuilt airplanes—with a child or two in tow.
March 15, 2010 | By Diane Tedeschi

In the 1970s, Hoover’s demos meant sales for North American Rockwell’s business craft.

Is there an airshow fan alive who doesn't know the legend riding beneath that hat?
May 2010 | By Debbie Gary

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