Air & Space Magazine: July 2004
Features
The People and Planes of Spruce Creek
Fun: flying south for the winter. More fun: flying every day
By Debbie Gary
The 30 Billion Dollar Man
Seddik Belyamani wrote the book on selling passenger jets.
By Bill Sweetman
The First 1,000 Days
Ghost alarms, foul odors, and a tourist season? Life aboard the International Space Station.
By Thomas D. Jones
The Hotrod Squad
There's hardly a combat mission that the A-4 Skyhawk hasn't flown.
By Graham Chandler
Safer Fuel Tanks
Once airliners implement this pending FAA rule, a spark will no longer become a flame.
By Damond Benningfield
Saturn's Deep, Dark Secret
Titan, the only major body in the solar system that we haven't gotten a good look at, is about to be outed.
By Craig Mellow
Origin of the Species
We want speed! We want vertical lift! The Bell XV-3 Tilt-rotor was the first to satisfy all aeronautical tastes.
By Jay Miller
First Church of Combustion
Never operate your airplane engine lean of peak exhaust gas temperature. These guys aren't buyin' it.
By George C. Larson
All Guts, No Glory
What they lacked in strength, World War II escort carriers made up in numbers...and the perseverance of their crews.
By James L. Noles, Jr
