Air & Space Magazine: March 2001
Features
Don't Mess With Switzerland
To the world's most formidable natural defenses, the Swiss have added F/A-18 Hornets and a new slant on neutrality.
By Carl Posey
Terra Cognita
A new generation of satellites zooms in on a familiar planet.
By Tony Reichhardt
The Hammer
For every airplane, there's a region of the flight envelope into which it dare not fly.
By Peter Garrison
Restoration: Desperate Journey
A Junkers Ju 88 is pulled from a Norwegian lake.
By Douglas Hinton
Baikonur
It ain't pretty, but it sure does work.
By John Sotham
Commentary: Metric Mayhem
Practically the entire world uses the metric system. Is it time for the United States to follow suit?
By Michael Milstein
High Tension
Helicopter pilots play chicken with high-voltage power lines so crews can work on live wires.
By James R. Chiles
What Were They Thinking?
The wonderful, unworkable world of airplane design in the years before the Wright brothers.
By Phil Scott
Made in the U.S.S.R.
Of course they copied it. The two airplanes could have been twins. But was the Soviets' Tu-4 truly an exact duplicate of the Boeing B-29?
By Von Hardesty
Viewport: Detective Work
By J.R. Dailey
In the Museum: Italian Lighting
By Robert C. Mikesh
Above & Beyond: Jump Ship
By E. Stuart Gregg
Oldies & Oddities: Body by Erco
By Lester A. Reingold
Moments & Milestones: Tiger Beat
By Bruce Bohannon
