Air & Space Magazine: July 2006
Articles
Cessna's Golden Oldie
What flies into your mind when you hear the words "light aircraft"? We bet it's the 172.
By Roger A. Mola
The Beaver and the Swans
How de Havilland's famous bushplane has helped protect a species.
By James Wynbrandt
At the Movies: Take Two
World War I airplanes star in a feature film about the Lafayette Escadrille.
By Tom LeCompte
Commentary: Thank You For Not Flying
Helicopter ambulances could be hazardous
to your health.
By Bryan E. Bledsoe M.D.
Glenn Curtiss Slept Here
Has Hammondsport, New York, done right by its most famous citizen?
By Phil Scott
Floaters
Mars, Venus, Titan - wherever there's air, we can explore by balloon.
By Joe Pappalardo
Beautiful Climber
In the summer of '58, nothing was faster to 50,000 feet.
By Carl Posey
Superduperjumbo
Double the size of an Airbus A380? No problem, aerodynamicists say.
By Michael Milstein
We Haul It All
For armored vehicles, fossilized pachyderms, and other oversize loads, your best bet is the Russian Mi-26 helicopter.
By John Croft
How Things Work: Phased-Array Radar
It takes a big eye to see a missile coming.
By Sam Goldberg
In the Museum: High Flier
Restoring the Northrop YP-61 Black Widow
By Diane Tedeschi
Operation Hot Wheels
Far away in the Middle East, soapbox racing flies the hearts of military persons back home.
By Allan T. Duffin
Iraq Air Force One
New pilots, new government.
By George C. Larson
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Need to Know
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Did Australians light signal fires for the astronauts?And would they have been visible from space? |
