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The winning-est Bearcat in air racing steps up once more to the starting gate.
November 2009
| By Preston Lerner
As NASA prepares to shut down a historic wind tunnel in Virginia, some hope for a stay of execution.
September 10, 2009
| By Michael Klesius
It's not absolutely certain when Blanche Stuart Scott became the first American woman to pilot an airplane (it may have been September 2, 1910, or September 4—Scott herself gave different dates). But either way, it was an accident.The 25-year-old Scott, who also went by the name of Betty, had won f...
September 02, 2009
| By Tony Reichhardt
A virtual race to mark the 100th anniversary of the world’s first air meet
August 25, 2009
| By Tony Reichhardt
In the early days of aviation, any wilderness was a challenge for propeller-driven airplanes made of wood and fabric. And in 1920, there was hardly a territory more rugged and fraught with danger than Alaska.So it was that Billy Mitchell of the Army Air Service, who was always anxious to show off t...
August 24, 2009
| By Tony Reichhardt
Burt Rutan remembers the birth of the VariEze and names his favorite aircraft.
August 2009
| By Linda Shiner
A collection of six inventions that prompt a single question: What the…?
September 2009
| By The Editors
We bring you 10 great ideas that made flying safer, easier, or just a whole lot more fun.
September 2009
| By The Editors
It took a maze of valves and venturis—and a trio
of tycoons—to whisk passengers into the stratosphere.
September 2009
| By Nick D'Alto
Each year the ranks of surviving veterans of World War I—which began on this day 95 years ago—get thinner. Now just a handful are left. Henry Allingham, who joined the Royal Naval Air Service as a teenager in 1915, died on July 18 at the age of 113. He was the last British veteran of the war, and, ...
July 28, 2009
| By Tony Reichhardt
It’s a tough call for prop-heads: Which do I watch? At 9 p.m. Monday, National Geographic airs “Secret Lives of Charles Lindbergh,” which notes the seven children he fathered with three German women. PBS counters with “History Detectives,” which evaluates the likelihood that a piece of an aircraft...
July 27, 2009
| By Pat Trenner
A hundred years ago, Louis Blériot made the first aerial crossing of the English channel. On Saturday, French Pilot Edmond Salis recreated the flight (see video here), followed a day later by Mikael Carlson of Sweden, who had tried to take off on the day of the centennial, but was grounded by Frenc...
July 27, 2009
| By Tony Reichhardt
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