Air & Space Magazine: May 2007

Articles

The Moose Jaw Nine

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

Guide to the Great

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

Airshows 2007: Photographer's Choice

Three pros pick their favorite acts to shoot.

Airshows 2007: Photographer's Choice

Three pros pick their favorite acts to shoot.

300,000 Airplanes

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

The Resistance

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

That Extra Little Lift

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

Lunch With Willard

How a meeting 50 years ago solved a photographic mystery.

Looking for Life in All the Wrong Places

Weird space critters could be right beneath our planetary probes.

Fields of Dreams

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

The G Machine

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

Concerto for Merlin and Double Wasp

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

A & S Interview: Michimasa Fujino

President and CEO, Honda Aircraft Company

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Need to Know

What does it take to become an "ace"?

And has anyone ever been stripped of their status?