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Twenty-five victims were never found, including Bill Fortenberry. For years, his son Ken believed the navigator was awaiting rescue on a desert island.

The Civil Aeronautics Board and the FBI abandoned the case 47 years ago, but two amateur detectives are still searching for the cause of the crash of Pan Am 944.
September 2004 | By Gregg Herken with Ken Fortenberry

What gives the restored warbirds of the Flying Heritage Collection their sparkle?
November 2004 | By Peter Garrison

Sterling’s Breguet came with conventional landing gear; he later replaced it with pontoons. “We were somewhat anxious about the results,” he recounted.

Tales from the era when the Air Age met the Stone Age.
November 2004 | By Tony Reichardt

Hughes’ first record-setter was a Boeing 100A, a civilian version of the Army’s P-12B pursuit aircraft. In January 1934 Hughes won the Sportsman Pilot Free-For-All at the Miami, Florida All- American Air Meet, averaging 185.7 mph over a 20-mile course.

Wealthy beyond measure and weird beyond belief, Howard Hughes was an aerospace leviathan.
November 2004 | By Preston Lerner

Magazine Within a Magazine. Celebrating 200 Years of Flight
January 2004 | By the Editors

The prototype’s wing had a constant angle of sweep; tests led to a trademark leading edge kink in wings of production craft.

The Royal Air Force Vulcan, immense cold war bomber and aerodynamic marvel, has been sentenced to permanent museum exhibition.
January 2004 | By Craig Mellow

The Scud

The Scud missiles causing so much anxiety in the world today are Soviet designs that originated in a weapon developed by the Nazis.
May 2003 | By Bruce Berkowitz

On display at the Reno Air Races, the rule was “look, but don’t touch.” And best wear sunglasses, lest the highly polished aluminum skin sear your retinas.

No airplane in the world could outshine Howard Hughes' H-1 Racer--until Jim Wright built a copy of it.
May 2003 | By Preston Lerner

Something about the Champlin Fighter Museum's Focke-Wulf 190D never seemed quite right.
September 2003 | By Howard Stansfield

Partners: Cessna O-1 Bird Dogs used smoke rockets to mark targets for the two-seat North American T-28s.

How the fighting in Southeast Asia transformed a curious young man into a fiercely dedicated pilot.
September 2003 | By Roger Warner

By 1927, airplanes were a national craze. At the original tour’s stop in Boston, crowds gathered for a closer look at the Ford 4-AT Tri-motor.

Why are so many Golden Age airplanes traveling the country together this fall?
September 2003 | By Mary Collins

An Air & Space/Smithsonian guide to a centennial's worth of fun and flying.
March 2003 | By Roger A. Mola

Befitting a Paris audience, Alberto Santos-Dumont cut a dandy figure in the pilot basket of his 14-bis.

You wouldn't have wanted to be along on most of them.
March 2003 | By Perry Turner

Grumman X-29

When's the last time you caught a ride in an autogiro?
March 2003 | By T.A. Heppenheimer

When a private collection of Wright Company papers went public, we discovered that many of our notions about the Wrights' business practices were wrong.
March 2003 | By Douglas Gantenbein

In 1902 the brothers took turns: When Orville flew, Wilbur launched, aided by friend Bill Tate (at right).

The airplane debuted to rave reviews.
March 2003 | By Mary Collins

By 1909, they were famous; 7 Hawthorne Street, a mecca for aspiring airmen.

To understand the brothers, one historian found that what you know is less important than who you know.
March 2003 | By Tom D. Crouch

Inventions seldom resemble the refined devices that evolve from them
March 2003 | By The Editors

Passengers board 5339 three weeks before its 1928 crash.

Riches to rags and back again: A 1928 mailplane is reborn.
November 2003 | By Sam Goldberg

Now departing Paradise...All day long, Chalk’s amphibious Grumman Mallards shuttle tourists in and out of Paradise Island and other Bahamian destinations.

Since 1919, this little airline has managed to keep its head above water
January 2003 | By Henry Scammell

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