Air & Space Magazine: September 2003
Features
The Magical History Tour
Why are so many Golden Age airplanes traveling the country together this fall?
By Mary Collins
Growing Pains
It's the one area of space science in which you get to eat the experiment.
By Robert Zimmerman
The Comet Affair
Why the cold war forced the British government to choose between keeping a friend and arming an enemy.
By Jeffrey A. Engel
Ground Proximity Warnings
Better technology is helping airline pilots keep a safe distance from terrain.
By Damond Benningfield
Astronaut, Cosmonaut... Euronaut?
Space exploration may come naturally to Europeans, but it doesn't come easily.
By William Triplett
Vang's War
How the fighting in Southeast Asia transformed a curious young man into a fiercely dedicated pilot.
By Roger Warner
Yellow 10
Something about the Champlin Fighter Museum's Focke-Wulf 190D never seemed quite right.
By Howard Stansfield
Last Stand at Kai Tak
When the old order changed in Hong Kong, it made way for a new set of problems for a historic aero club.
By Roger A. Mola
The Rest of the Rocket Scientists
Some went west. This is the story of the ones who went east.
By Anatoly Zak
