Air & Space Magazine: July 2009
Articles
Step Outside
Shuck the spacecraft. 182 spacewalkers have.
By Tony Reichhardt
Where the Wild Things Are
We’re about to get a peek at the solar system’s
final frontier.
By Guy Gugliotta
The Six
If Lockheed’s Constellation was the hare, the Douglas DC-6 was the oh-so-reliable tortoise.
By Kara Platoni
Travels with Churchill
A World War II flight engineer dishes on the most “I” of the VIPs he flew with.
By Graham Chandler
Tumbling with the Stars
Today’s airshow performers do it gyroscopically.
By Debbie Gary
The Billy Mitchell Court-Martial
Courtroom sketches from aviation's Trial of the Century.
By Rebecca Maksel
Fire Hazard
Where there’s smoke, there’s pollution. How can airport firefighters green it up?
By Sam Goldberg
Unmanned Traffic Jam
To the Federal Aviation Administration, civilian
UAVs are the new barbarians at the gate.
By Douglas Gantenbein
Fear of Floating
Diagnosis: Collective Panic Attack. Cause: Count von Zeppelin.
By Dan Vergano
The Dawn of Discipline
A B-47 pilot remembers when an airplane—and Curtis LeMay—stiffened the spine of the Strategic Air Command
By Walter J. Boyne
Viewport: July 20, 2009
By J.R. Dailey
In The Museum: Fashion Lighter Than Air
By Tom D. Crouch
Above and Beyond: Too Much, Too Soon
By General Robert L. Cardenas, U.S. Air Force (Ret.) As told to James P. Busha
Oldies and Oddities: The Disney War Plan
By Stephen Joiner
Then and Now: Mars Travel Guide
By Paul Hoversten
John Glenn's Project Bullet
By George C. Larson, member, NAA
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July 2009
Snapshot
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Red, White, and BlueTimes two, for the 4th. |
Reader Scrapbook
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Send In Your PhotosCheck out our scrapbook of readers' aviation and space pictures. Then add your own. |
Need to Know
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Did Australians light signal fires for the astronauts?And would they have been visible from space? |
