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Business, babes, and barnstormers. For awhile, Reading, Pennsylvania, had it all.
September 2001 | By Roger Mola

July 2001 | By Robert G. Pushkar

July 2001 | By J.R. Dailey

Moss was hardly deskbound, posing with the pilot who held the Army

Why General Electric put an airplane engine on a truck and drove it to the top of Pikes Peak.
May 2001 | By Donald Sherman

March 2001 | By Lester A. Reingold

On a cool day, with a bit of wind and a light load, the Kellett jump giro could leap straight up some 15 feet, gain forward speed, and climb out. But in hot weather and still air, with a full load of fuel and a passenger, it merely lurched upward, relying on its straining engine and propeller to pull it out.

March 2001 | By E. Stuart Gregg

During the summer of 1942, this Macchi Folgore fighter was operating out of Libya as part of 4 Stormo, 10 Gruppo, 90 Squadriglia. Formed in 1940, the 4 Stormo was credited with 500 victories. The fighter

March 2001 | By Robert C. Mikesh

March 2001 | By J.R. Dailey

January 2001 | By Walter S. Terry

On the National Registry of Historic Flatbeds: one of the first film and still photographer platforms provided by the Air Force.

January 2001 | By Harold Baker

January 2001 | By Topper Sherwood

January 2001 | By J.R. Dailey

November 2002 | By Stuart Nixon

Sergei Rachmaninoff (center) was instrumental in getting the Sikorsky S-29A airliner off the ground. Igor Sikorsky (left) had labored with Baron Nicholas Solovioff (right) and a dwindling workforce to launch the 14-passenger transport.

November 2002 | By Vadim Prokhorov

In 1957 midshipmen launched an N3N from the Severn River in Annapolis.

November 2002 | By Roger A. Mola

September 2002 | By Mary Collins

September 2002 | By J.R. Dailey

Images of the glider in flight (here, a CG-4 prototype) don’t capture the human drama of a CG-4 mission, as the museum’s finished display does.

How an abandoned World War II glider found love in Long Island.
September 2002 | By Joshua Stoff

How to submit pictures for our online Reader Scrapbook
March 20, 2008 | By Air & Space magazine

Amercan idol: Earhart first crossed the Atlantic in 1928, as a passenger. Four years later, she flew solo from Newfoundland to Ireland in a Lockheed Vega. Here, the beaming villagers of Culmore, North Ireland, pay homage to the rising star.

When she vanished-70 years ago this July-she was as big a star as Greta Garbo. Is that why some are still driven to solve the mystery of Amelia Earhart?
July 2007 | By Paul Hoversten

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