Air & Space Magazine: March 2009
Features
License to Thrill
Meet the first commercial rocketship pilots.
By Michael Belfiore
Woe Canada
The only thing that kept Canada from beating the U.S. to a jet airliner was Canada.
By Graham Chandler
A Walk in the Airpark
Rest and renewal in a long-standing pilot community.
By Del Wilber
Supersonic Sales Call
If you want a customer to spend $10 billion on your jet fighters, you gotta bust some Mach.
By Jorge and Karen Escalona
Lunar Smackdown
A spacecraft bites the lunar dust.
By Mohi Kumar
How Things Work: Flying Fuel Cells
Out of gas? Not a problem.
By Michael Klesius
Max Q Live
In space no one can hear you sing.
By Michael Cassutt
Bring Back the Brute
A GeeBee racer in flyable condition? Don’t do it.
By ROBERT BERNIER
Thuds, the Ridge, and 100 Missions North
How the Republic F-105 got good at a mission it was not designed to fly.
By Carl Posey
Viewport: Fast Company
From the desk of the Director of the National Air & Space Museum
By J. R. Dailey
In the Museum: Hot Commodity
By Michael Klesius
Above & Beyond: Shooting Up a Shooting Star
There's more than one way to dump extra fuel before landing.
By Lieutenant Colonel Alfred (Joe) D’Amario, U.S. Air Force (ret.)
Oldies and Oddities: The Bonneville Jet Wars
A California hot-rodder took on the feuding Arfons brothers in the 1960s.
By Preston Lerner
Then & Now: A Weighty Matter
By Roger A. Mola
Moments & Milestones: Nobody’s Fuel...Yet
By George C. Larson, member, NAA
