Air & Space Magazine: September 2006

Articles

Where the War Began

A new aviation museum preserves Pearl Harbor's past.

Tomcat Tribute

The Navy's fearsome fighter retires.

The Grumman Cats

Just under nine lives that created a company legend.

Persian Cats

How Iranian air crews, cut off from U.S. technical support, used the F-14 against Iraqi attackers.

Star Quality

How did we love the Tomcat? On the 20th anniversary of Top Gun, we count the ways.

Stronger Than Dirt

Lunar explorers will have to battle an insidious enemy—dust.

Show Me the Way to Go Home

Long before the Global Positioning System, pilots got from town to town by reading rooftops.

Keep Watching the Ice

Meet the satellites bringing data to the discussion of global warming

Flameout

Why the fire in a perfectly healthy jet engine can die.

Swing Wings

It's all done with computers (and good old-fashioned hydraulics).

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In the Magazine

Snapshot

Reader Scrapbook

Need to Know

What does it take to become an "ace"?

And has anyone ever been stripped of their status?