Air & Space Magazine: July 2009

Articles

Step Outside

Shuck the spacecraft. 182 spacewalkers have.
By Tony Reichhardt

Where the Wild Things Are

We’re about to get a peek at the solar system’s final frontier.
By Guy Gugliotta

The Six

If Lockheed’s Constellation was the hare, the Douglas DC-6 was the oh-so-reliable tortoise.
By Kara Platoni

Travels with Churchill

A World War II flight engineer dishes on the most “I” of the VIPs he flew with.
By Graham Chandler

Tumbling with the Stars

Today’s airshow performers do it gyroscopically.
By Debbie Gary

The Billy Mitchell Court-Martial

Courtroom sketches from aviation's Trial of the Century.
By Rebecca Maksel

Fire Hazard

Where there’s smoke, there’s pollution. How can airport firefighters green it up?
By Sam Goldberg

Unmanned Traffic Jam

To the Federal Aviation Administration, civilian UAVs are the new barbarians at the gate.
By Douglas Gantenbein

Fear of Floating

Diagnosis: Collective Panic Attack. Cause: Count von Zeppelin.
By Dan Vergano

The Dawn of Discipline

A B-47 pilot remembers when an airplane—and Curtis LeMay—stiffened the spine of the Strategic Air Command
By Walter J. Boyne

Viewport: July 20, 2009

By J.R. Dailey

In The Museum: Fashion Lighter Than Air

By Tom D. Crouch

Above and Beyond: Too Much, Too Soon

By General Robert L. Cardenas, U.S. Air Force (Ret.) As told to James P. Busha

Oldies and Oddities: The Disney War Plan

By Stephen Joiner

Then and Now: Mars Travel Guide

By Paul Hoversten

John Glenn's Project Bullet

By George C. Larson, member, NAA

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