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U.S. Air Mail personnel with a De Havilland DH-4 mailplane at the Bellefonte, Pennsylvania airfield, December 1923.

Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, had one brief, shining moment when airmail pilots used it as a stopover. Then they went away, leaving only memories.
October 1991 | By Donald Dale Jackson

A Boeing 40C (background) and a 1927 Stearman C3B biplane are two of the three airplanes recreating the cross-country airmail route.

Three historic mailplanes commemorated the anniversary of U.S. airmail by tracing the original coast-to-coast route.
September 08, 2008 | By Linda Shiner

Landing field at Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, October 1935. Note the "large white circle" called out in the directions.

Pilots flying the mail cross-country in 1921 followed these directions to find landmarks along the way.
September 03, 2008 | By Tony Reichhardt

Five years after Kitty Hawk, the Wrights finally showed the world their invention.
August 29, 2008 | By Tom D. Crouch

Feng and assistants with the Feng Ru 2 in Guangdong, China

Feng Ru made history on the California coast, then introduced airplanes to his native land.
August 13, 2008 | By Rebecca Maksel

Inconel X, a ferociously strong nickel alloy, gives the X-15 its gun-metal black color. Inconel was chosen for the airplane

Not only was it the fastest. It may have been the best flight research program ever.
November 01, 2007 | By Linda Shiner

Spirit of New China

In an era when Chinese women weren’t allowed to drive cars, Lee Ya-Ching flew the globe.
July 24, 2008 | By Rebecca Maksel

September 2008 | By Nick D’Alto

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

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