Air & Space Magazine: August 2007
Articles
Calling All Mustangs
This September a super-size squadron of P-51s will relive the legend.
By Stephen Joiner
Popularity Contest
Which one of six past champions would have gotten your vote?
By Linda Shiner
Online Poll: The People's Choice
Your chance to pick the "Best of the Best".
By The Editors
Magic Airport
Watch the Burning Man revelers pull an airport out of the desert...then make it disappear.
By Chad Slattery
The Country Where Nobody Flies
Did Cuba abandon its private pilots or did they abandon Cuba?
By Rafael Lima
An Airplane in Every Barn
A once-thriving organization of rural pilots is struggling to survive.
By Giles Lambertson
Danger: Airplane Crossing
Controlling airplanes on the ground is a thornier problem than controlling them in the air.
By Michael Milstein
Northern Exposure
We've already seen water ice on Mars. NASA's Phoenix lander will reach out and touch it.
By Charles Petit
Russia's Long Love Affair with Space
It started with Utopian dreams and rocketeers.
By Asif Siddiqi
We Shocked the World
Nikita Khrushchev's son recalls the night Sputnik made history.
By Sergei Khrushchev (Translated by Lyudmila Khomenko Chillico)
Book Excerpt: "On Cuban Wings"
Chronicling the island's rich aviation history
By Jorge and Diana Rodriguez
Legs, Bags, or Wheels?
When choosing landing gear for Mars spacecraft, engineers have to weigh their options-literally.
By Tony Reichhardt
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Snapshot
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Max AbortWe hope it'll never be more than a test. |
Reader Scrapbook
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Send In Your PhotosCheck out our scrapbook of readers' aviation and space pictures. Then add your own. |
Need to Know
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Did Australians light signal fires for the astronauts?And would they have been visible from space? |
