Air & Space Magazine: May 2013
Features
Beyond the Moon
It’s not a place, exactly. But it could be NASA’s next destination.
By Guy Gugliotta
The Man Who Invented the Predator
Before he designed the world’s most feared drone, Abraham Karem was just trying to get a robot to stay in the air.
By Richard Whittle
Cancelled: Britain’s High-Mach Heartbreak
The TSR-2 bomber was a case of aeronautical genius foiled by political foolishness.
By David Noland
Earth’s Mirror
Landsat shows us the home planet, warts and all.
By Linda Shiner
The Galileo Project
Why Europe wants its own satellite navigation program.
By Craig Mellow
Lindbergh’s Trainer: The Brunner-Winkle Bird
The plane that taught Anne Morrow Lindbergh to fly is flying again.
By Paul Glenshaw
Rescued
Five daring helicopter crews on five very bad days.
By Preston Lerner
Viewport
And the Trophy Goes To...
By J.R. Dailey
Medevac!
Transporting the wounded in Iraq.
By Christopher Ryan
Hornet Babies
“Back in the old Marine Corps...”
By John Scanlan
For Safe Landings On Two Planets
The 2013 National Air and Space Museum Trophy Winners.
By The Editors
Close Formation
The parasitic aircraft of Britain’s Short Brothers.
By George C. Larson, Member, NAA
