Air & Space Magazine: May 2007

Articles

The Moose Jaw Nine

What the Canadian Snowbirds have that the Navy's Blue Angels don't.
By Graham Chandler

Guide to the Great

A performer searches the airshow circuit for this season's top acts.
By Debbie Gary

Airshows 2007: Photographer's Choice

Three pros pick their favorite acts to shoot.
By airspacemag.com

Airshows 2007: Photographer's Choice

Three pros pick their favorite acts to shoot.
By airspacemag.com

300,000 Airplanes

Individual effort and mass production are equally represented in a new book celebrating World War II aircraft factories.
By The editors

The Resistance

A hub of creativity for early airplane builders: North Carolina? Ohio? NopeĀ—Oregon. And these Oregonians had an independent streak.
By Ken Scott

That Extra Little Lift

Willard Custer's Channel Wing looked like a mistake. Turns out his critics were the ones who were wrong.
By Tim Wright

Lunch With Willard

How a meeting 50 years ago solved a photographic mystery.
By Joe Pappalardo

Looking for Life in All the Wrong Places

Weird space critters could be right beneath our planetary probes.
By Christen Brownlee

Fields of Dreams

Will starry-eyed entrepreneurs transform today's wide-open spaces into tomorrow's spaceports?
By Ed Regis

The G Machine

Riding an Atlas into space was a piece of cake compared to pulling 32 Gs on the Johnsville centrifuge.
By Mark Wolverton

Concerto for Merlin and Double Wasp

John Altmann thinks airplane engines make beautiful music, and has sold thousands of CDs to prove it.
By Keith Hatschek

A & S Interview: Michimasa Fujino

President and CEO, Honda Aircraft Company
By Linda Shiner

Above & Beyond: Milk Run

How a milk run from an aircraft carrier nearly killed me.
By Chris McKenna

In the Museum: Model Employee

By Sara Duncan Widness

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Need to Know

Did Australians light signal fires for the astronauts?

And would they have been visible from space?