Air & Space Magazine: September 2006
Articles
Where the War Began
A new aviation museum preserves Pearl Harbor's past.
By Ralph Wetterhahn
Tomcat Tribute
The Navy's fearsome fighter retires.
By The Editors
The Grumman Cats
Just under nine lives that created a company legend.
By Brian Nicklas
Persian Cats
How Iranian air crews, cut off from U.S. technical support, used the F-14 against Iraqi attackers.
By Tom Cooper
Star Quality
How did we love the Tomcat? On the 20th anniversary of Top Gun, we count the ways.
By The Editors
Stronger Than Dirt
Lunar explorers will have to battle an insidious enemy—dust.
By Trudy E. Bell
Show Me the Way to Go Home
Long before the Global Positioning System,
pilots got from town to town by reading rooftops.
By Roger A. Mola
Keep Watching the Ice
Meet the satellites bringing data to the discussion of global warming
By Ben Iannotta
Flameout
Why the fire in a perfectly healthy jet engine can die.
By Peter Garrison
Swing Wings
It's all done with computers (and good old-fashioned hydraulics).
By Joe Pappalardo
In the Museum: Lindbergh for Sale
Stanley King's memorabilia collection.
By Diane Tedeschi
A Hard Day's Night
Cold war B-52s flew an icy northern route on alert for a Soviet missile strike.
By Bill Robinson
Nikola Tesla's Curious Contrivance
"You should not be at all surprised if someday you see me fly from New York to Colorado Springs in a contrivance which will resemble a gas stove and weigh almost as much." Nikola Tesla, 1913
By A.J.S. RAYL
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