Air & Space Magazine: August 2007

Articles

Calling All Mustangs

This September a super-size squadron of P-51s will relive the legend.

Popularity Contest

Which one of six past champions would have gotten your vote?

Online Poll: The People's Choice

Your chance to pick the "Best of the Best".

Magic Airport

Watch the Burning Man revelers pull an airport out of the desert...then make it disappear.

The Country Where Nobody Flies

Did Cuba abandon its private pilots or did they abandon Cuba?

An Airplane in Every Barn

A once-thriving organization of rural pilots is struggling to survive.

Danger: Airplane Crossing

Controlling airplanes on the ground is a thornier problem than controlling them in the air.

Northern Exposure

We've already seen water ice on Mars. NASA's Phoenix lander will reach out and touch it.

Russia's Long Love Affair with Space

It started with Utopian dreams and rocketeers.

We Shocked the World

Nikita Khrushchev's son recalls the night Sputnik made history.

Book Excerpt: "On Cuban Wings"

Chronicling the island's rich aviation history

Legs, Bags, or Wheels?

When choosing landing gear for Mars spacecraft, engineers have to weigh their options-literally.

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Need to Know

What does it take to become an "ace"?

And has anyone ever been stripped of their status?