Air & Space Magazine: May 2004
Features
Crater Face
If we could see all the holes gouged in the Earth by asteroids, we'd run screaming for cover.
By Tony Reichhardt
Airshow Lite
The smaller the airshow, the closer you get to the airplanes and pilots. (And the better the food.)
By Patricia Trenner
Supporting Cast
In which we survey the variety of objects to which a jet engine can be affixed.
By Roger A. Mola
Alpine Air
The only thing more durable than these Junkers Ju 52s are the mountains over which they now fly sightseers.
By Linda Shiner
I Got Shot Down
Seven airmen talk about the event none wants to experience.
By Phil Scott
Retro Rocketeers
If a capsule was good enough to get a crew to the moon, these old-timers say, it's good enough to get a crew back to Earth.
By James Oberg
Night Stalkers
U.S. soldiers in Vietnam heard rumors of ghosts; the Viet Cong chalked it up to bad luck.
By Roger Warner
The People and Planes of Friday Harbor
Time and tide wait for no man, but they seem to linger a little around the flying paradise of the San Juan Islands.
By Tom Harpole
