Air & Space Magazine: March 2013
Features
Disaster at Xichang
An eyewitness speaks publicly for the first time about history’s worst launch accident.
By Anatoly Zak
Even Lindbergh Got Lost
In the 1920’s, only one man held the key to aerial navigation.
By Roger Connor
How Things Work: Laser Guide Stars
Adaptive optics and lasers are giving ground-based telescopes better-than-Hubble views.
By Heather Goss
Mr. Arango’s Aeroplanes
A World War I aircraft enthusiast’s collection tracks the evolution of the species.
By Peter Garrison
Kings of the Air
Two showmen, one dirigible, and the flight that changed aviation.
By Paul Glenshaw
The Misty Mystique
Over Vietnam, F-100 pilots flew fast and low. Later, they hit the heights.
By Mark Bernstein
Into The Great Unknown
The Voyagers begin the first real star trek.
By Christopher Riley and Richard Corfield
10 Billion Miles From Home
More than 35 years into their mission, our farthest-flung spacecraft are not finished yet.
By Paul Hoversten
Viewport
Timing is everything.
By J.R. Dailey
A Tale of Two Satellites
An artifact returns to service after being on display for eight years.
By Rebecca Maksel
Nuke the Pilot
Operation Redwing tested aircraft vulnerabilities to atomic blasts.
By Norvin C. “Bud” Evans
The Flying Crane
Test pilot Gale Moore rose to the challenge of the XH-17.
By Don Porter
The 727 Turns Fifty
Once a best-seller, the airliner’s pilots still swear by it.
By George C. Larson, Member, NAA
