Air & Space Magazine: July 2005
Articles
The Notorious Flight of Mathias Rust
Ronald Reagan was president, there was still a Soviet Union, and a 19-year-old pilot set out to change the world.
Confessions of a Spaceship Pilot
If you fall off your horse...
Leroy's Launch
To watch a friend begin his expedition to the International Space Station, our correspondent travels to emptiest Kazakhstan.
People and Planes of Creve Coeur
In the department of flood recovery, Noah and his ark got nuthin' on the folks at this little airport-except that many of the aircraft they saved are ones, not twos, of a kind.
Debrief: Hyper-X
Scramjet power? Simple: Keep a match lit in a 7,000-mph wind.
Robo Repairmen
It's getting harder to find good help these days. So these space engineers built their own
Cold Front
Meet the men who kept the Thunderbolts flying.
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