Air & Space Magazine: May 2001
Features
The Fastest Show on Earth
How two Lockheed F-104 Starfighters became airshow stars.
By Carl Hoffman
Hill Climb
Why General Electric put an airplane engine on a truck and drove it to the top of Pikes Peak.
By Donald Sherman
High Honor
The origins of the missing man formation.
By Daniel Ford
Restoration: Grande Dame
The Lockheed L-1649A Starliner gets a makeover.
By John Sotham
Q
When the job demands ingenuity, NASA engineers whip gadgets worthy of James Bond.
By Eric Adams
Predator: First Watch
Lesson learned: never send a man to do a machine's job.
By Linda Shiner
Fishing for Saint-Ex
There's something down there. And it may be Antoine De Saint-Exupéry's P-38.
By Joseph Harriss
Particle Man
Sam Ting is on a mission: find the other half of the universe.
By Andrew Lawler
One Balloon Bomber (Slightly Used)
First it carried a Japanese bomb 5,000 miles across the Pacific. Then it carried Don Piccard across Minneapolis.
By Don Piccard
Viewport: That's Entertainment
By J.R. Dailey
In the Museum: Beautiful Goose
By F. Robert van der Linden
Above & Beyond: Stealing the Show
By Doug Hinton
Flights & Fancy: When Bad Things Happen to Good Drones
By O.H. Billmann
Moments & Milestones: Proteus Maximus
By Charles Spence
