Air & Space Magazine: May 2004

Articles

Crater Face

If we could see all the holes gouged in the Earth by asteroids, we would 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 Joseph Bourque

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

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