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What the astronauts really said

Apollo "onboard voice" recordings captured the moon astronauts' conversations -- cussing and all -- when no one else was listening.

Drones for Hire

The newest eyes in the sky are drawing the attention of power companies, conservation groups, and the ACLU.

Five Reasons to Like NASA’s Asteroid Retrieval Mission

So it's not the Moon or Mars. Get over it.

The Invention of Flight

Inventors, dreamers, daredevils, charlatans: Aviation's early years had them all.

Disaster at Xichang

An eyewitness speaks publicly for the first time about history’s worst launch accident.

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For Halloween, a collection of weird tales about airports and aircraft.
October 25, 2011 | By Rebecca Maksel

One hundred years ago this Sunday, on October 23, 1911, Captain Carlo Piazza climbed onto his spindly Blériot XI and made military history.
October 21, 2011 | By Rebecca Maksel

A new book reopens (for the umpteenth time) the 50-year-old mystery of how, or rather why, U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld and 15 others died in a plane crash on September 18, 1961.
September 30, 2011 | By Tony Reichhardt

Designs for a fanciful Civil War airplane fetch big bucks at auction.
September 30, 2011 | By Mary Paltzer

The Canadian Air & Space Museum arrived last Tuesday to an eviction notice, a team of locksmiths and the news that four ice rinks were to be built in their space.
September 22, 2011 | By Heather Goss

A 100th anniversary remembrance of Cal Rodgers and the Vin Fiz.
September 2011 | By Charles Wiggin, As Told To Howard Eisenberg

Dorothy Kilgallen in the 1930s, when she was a correspondent for the New York Evening Journal and International News

In October 1936, three journalists battled to circle the globe first.
September 01, 2011 | By The Editors

Possibly the world’s pointiest jet

Every research aircraft poses a question. Sometimes the answer is "forget it."
August 2011 | By The Editors

By 1944, Ernest Taylor Pyle (in Normandy, France) had won millions of loyal readers and a Pulitzer.

Ernie Pyle's aviation and war dispatches.
September 16, 2011 | By Rebecca Maksel

Tata (circa 1960) wrote copious memos to his staff about everything from inflight coffee (“it tasted like bean soup”) to crew hairstyles (one stewardess “had an enormous hair bun at the back, larger than her whole head. She looked ridiculous”).

The struggle to start Air-India.
November 2011 | By David Shaftel

Leo Windecker’s proof-of- concept Fibaloy aircraft used fixed landing gear and aluminum control surfaces to cut down on development time and costs.

The world's first all-composite airplane may fly again.
November 2011 | By Stephen Joiner

Though he had a student pilot’s permit, Pyle never got a license.

The country's best-known war correspondent learned his trade as an aviation reporter.
November 2011 | By Rebecca Maksel

From the Chicago Daily Tribune, November 28, 1920: "At last the pride of the Army air service, the Verville-Packard chasse biplane, has established its worth by romping ahead of thirty-four starters in the first Pulitzer...
September 02, 2011 | By Rebecca Maksel

You may have noticed the U.S. flag flying on a federal building today, but chances are it was on the pole yesterday, too. Or perhaps you woke feeling the need for “appropriate exercises to further stimulate interest in aviation,” which many of us consider part of our routine. At least today, though, you’ve got President [...]
August 19, 2011 | By Roger Mola

The flight and ground crews for the DC-8 supersonic run included flight test engineer Richard H. Edwards

The day a Douglas DC-8 busted Mach 1.
August 2011 | By Bill Wasserzieher

Giuseppe Genchi, who found a trove of engine parts at the University of Palermo, spent countless hours restoring an 11-cylinder rotary engine from World War I.

A grad student in Italy salvages Germany's rarest World War I airplane engines.
August 2011 | By Andrew Lawler

Air Force Thunderbird pilot Nicole Malachowski, the first woman to fly with a U.S. military high-performance demonstration team.

Some were already heroes. Others were nowhere near where you would have expected them to be.
May 2011 | By Michael Klesius

Just past the standing figure, a chamber with movable sidewalls controls the Mach number of air entering the diffuser.

In the 1950s, engineers at Cleveland's brand-new supersonic wind tunnel battled shock waves, unstarts, and the local power company.
August 2011 | By Jeremy Davis

Who can forget the immortal question posed by the Mongol General in the 1982 classic Conan the Barbarian? Wait…don’t tell me you’ve forgotten? When the Mongol General bellows “What is best in life?” some (sissy) barbarian offers the following: “The open steppe, fleet horse, falcons at your wrist, and the wind in your hair.” (“The [...]
August 12, 2011 | By Rebecca Maksel

Aviation's Stories of Determination
September 2011 | By The Editors

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