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To find their way home, aviators used to be able to read the rooftops.
October 19, 2012 | By Rebecca Maksel

Some of the airplanes that loom largest in our collective memory have flown only in the movies.
November 2012 | By Preston Lerner

A gallery of traveling air- and spacecraft loaned out by the Smithsonian.
September 18, 2012 | By Heather Goss

In 1938, these TWA stewardesses were honored for each having completed a quarter-million miles or more of flying. � Delta Air Transport Heritage Museum

A new book documents the evolution of stewardesses from registered nurses to starlets in the sky.
September 18, 2012 | By Bruce McAllister and Stephan Wilkinson

The macho man of American Letters was a nervous flier. His wife was another story.
September 14, 2012 | By Rebecca Maksel

75 years ago, the Army Air Corps’ XC-35 launched the pressurized cabin.
November 2012 | By George C. Larson

Henry Ford Museum

A Buckminster Fuller design was grounded in aerospace technology.
November 2012 | By Nick D’Alto

Can’t make it to the Museum? There might be an artifact on loan right in your neighborhood.
November 2012 | By Heather Goss

A World War II British foot soldier’s best friend in the air, and the man who rescued Ernest Hemingway.
November 2012 | By Tim Belknap

The Bell 47, famous as the star of “Whirlybirds,” was the DC-3 of helicopters. Could it make a comeback?
November 2012 | By Mark Huber

In the weeks leading up to the Blitz, Londoners were still learning how to respond to air-raid warnings.
September 06, 2012 | By Rebecca Maksel

A story from when the famed comedian joined Bob Hope on his USO tours.
August 20, 2012 | By Rebecca Maksel

An 1880 balloon jaunt ends with our heroine up a tree.
August 16, 2012 | By Rebecca Maksel

It's not as straightforward as you think.
August 14, 2012 | By Rebecca Maksel

Sixty-six years ago this week, Sergeant Lawrence Lambert became the first person in the U.S. to be ejected from a high-speed aircraft.
August 13, 2012 | By Rebecca Maksel

Wiseman-Cooke Aircraft hanging in the Postal Museum.; In early 1912; the second Wiseman airplane was acquired by Weldon B. Cooke; a pilot who had been making a name for himself in recent months flying another airplane in the NASM collection; the Maupin-Lanteri Black Diamond. The second Wiseman airplane is now designated by NASM as the "Wiseman-Cooke aircraft" because both individuals were intimately associated with its history.

All the Smithsonian’s one-of-a-kind aircraft
August 14, 2012 | By Patricia Trenner

Mathias Rust’s Skyhawk is on display at the Deutsches Technikmuseum in Berlin.

Twenty-five years ago, Mathias Rust decided to personally intervene in the cold war.
September 2012 | By George C. Larson, Member, NAA

Built in 1928, the steel frame of the Curtiss flying school is still sound.

A 1920s hangar still stands at a Connecticut airport.
September 2012 | By Richard Mallory Allnutt

A Rubenesque Princess emerges from a hangar on the Isle of Wight in 1951.

A British aircraft company could not give up the ship.
September 2012 | By Stephan Wilkinson

Almost 100 aircraft were lost in the river during World War II alone, and it's not certain how many are still to be recovered.
July 27, 2012 | By Rebecca Maksel

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