Air & Space Magazine: January 2002
Features
Young Turks
The Turkish Air Demo team is winning friends at home with its seven Northrop F-5s.
By Roger A. Mola
Special Report: Aftermath
Are government and industry doing enough to make the sky secure?
By Lester A. Reingold
Ready, Set, Flap!
Birds do it, bees do it. Can two weird aircraft make aviation history doing it?
By Graham Chandler
How Things Work: Cabin Pressure
Why you remain conscious at 30,000 feet.
By George C. Larson
Science Floats
What a satellite can do, balloons can do cheaper.
By T. A. Heppenheimer
Restoration: The Bat
ASM-N-2 Guided Missle
By Jim Sweeney
The Front Office
Every pilot needs a place to work.
By Eric Long and Mark Avino
The Rocket Ships
Tracking launches from Cape Canaveral required old boats and iron guts.
By Dan Kovalchik
Air Combat U
At the USAF Fighter Weapons School in 1957, the instructors were mean, but the aircraft were meaner.
By Robert A. Hanson
Viewport: A Matter of Scale
By J.R. Dailey
In the Museum: Centuries of Upward Gazes
By Eric Adams
Above & Beyond: Pushback: Newark Airport, 8:45 a.m.
What 9/11 looked like from one airliner’s cockpit.
By Anonymous
Flights & Fancy: When Pigs Fly
An ingenious new use for an old Cessna.
By Richard Sassaman
Moments & Milestones: Finding the Wright Spot
By Stuart Nixon
