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Aerospace celebrities talk about the flights that changed their lives.
July 2002 | By Phil Scott

Even with careful area ruling, Whitcomb

Richard Whitcomb changed the shape of wings to come.
July 2002 | By Peter Garrison

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January 2002 | By Stuart Nixon

The first circumnavigators were the Douglas World Cruisers.

May 2002 | By Stuart Nixon

The reality of spaceflight is tangible; a spacecraft or flight spare enables us to preserve the technology involved in a Mars landing so that future generations can understand how it was done. But how do you preserve a "sensation" so that future generations will appreciate its impact on society?
May 2002 | By Bob Craddock

May 2002 | By J.R. Dailey

A historically accurate reproduction of the Wright Model B, built by the Wright Experience, is on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.

For their first airshows, the Wright exhibition team relied on the Model B.
March 19, 2008 | By Paul Glenshaw

The gum wrapper is modern, but the medallion, scraps of paper, and builder

The strange things restorers find in old aircraft.
May 2008 | By Bettina H. Chavanne

To find the very best books about the world of aviation and spaceflight, we asked for recommendations.
March 2002 | By Our Panel Of Experts

January 2002 | By J.R. Dailey

Jimmy Doolittle had a doctorate in aeronautical engineering.

Machines alone could not have pushed the airplane forward.
March 2003 | By Patricia Trenner

When the twin-engine America proved underpowered, Curtiss added a third engine. It worked on Keuka Lake, but fuel consumption proved too high for an Atlantic crossing.

The seaplane Glenn Curtiss designed in 1914 may have had trouble on the ocean, but its reproduction is delighting a whole town on a lake.
March 2008 | By James Wynbrandt

This colorful Bede BD-J5 takes a break from the action at an airshow in Sion, Switzerland in June 1989.

The Minijet, the Weejet, and other good ideas that went nowhere.
March 01, 2008 | By David Noland

Among the first to see the historical value of aircraft, Ed Maloney opened a museum in 1957 and has been adding airplanes ever since, like the Hawker Hurricane. What makes the Planes of Fame Air Museum especially thrilling to airplane fans is aircraft that fly.

The man behind, beside, and all over, the Planes of Fame Air Museum.
March 2008 | By Marshall Lumsden

Charlie Kulp, 82, flew this Piper Cub (and wore those overalls) in more than 800 performances since 1973.

Charlie Kulp bids farewell to his alter ego, the "Flying Farmer."
March 01, 2008 | By Linda Shiner

The aviation pioneer chronicled his life and work in a once rare (but now freely downloadable) 1912 book.
March 01, 2008 | By airspacemag.com

Cromwell Dixon in his Curtiss biplane at the Helena fairgounds on September 30, 1911.

A new biography details the exploits of teenage aviation pioneer Cromwell Dixon.
March 01, 2008 | By Tom Harpole

A pilot waits somewhere in the south Pacific for a rescue plane in April 1944.

Tales of downed pilots led to one of the Institution's most important contributions to World War II.
January 01, 2008 | By Pamela M. Henson

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