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January 2012

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Features

South African-born entrepreneur Elon Musk

Is SpaceX Changing the Rocket Equation?

1 visionary + 3 launchers + 1,500 employees = ?

Nakajima B5N Kate bomber

Cornelia Fort Wanted to Fly in Combat, But Not in a Civilian Airplane Against the Japanese at Pearl Harbor

How a vintage Interstate Cadet trainer led a modern airshow pilot on a journey to find a kindred spirit.

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The Kids Are Trying to Crash

Remote-control models face off in the Extreme Flight Championships.

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NASA's Curiosity rover will try a new way of landing on another planet

Dropping in on Mars.

mantis-like Proteus

A retrospective of Burt Rutan's high-performance art

Design by Rutan

Pilot Bruce Moore and photographer Jim Koepnick

To nail the air-to-air shot, pilot and photographer have to work together like, well, this pair

Pointer and Shooter.

a slow collision

Is Earth's moon the product of a big splat as well as a big whack?

The second-moon theory.

H-1 Borp! (Gotcha!) Bomber-Bomber

The Other Air Forces

Humorist Bruce McCall's small fleet of little-known aircraft.

Veterans at the scene where Alan Shepard became the first American in space

Light This Candle

Alan Shepard was brave enough to ride the Mercury-Redstone rocket. These guys were brave enough to launch it.

Departments

Viewport

Viewport: Longer Strides

Viewport: Longer Strides

J.R. Dailey
In the Museum

In the Museum: The Original Airliner

The Boeing 247 was the Dreamliner of its day.

Above & Beyond

The Man My Mother Fell in Love With

When the Navy retired the Tomcat, my father went with it.

Brad Hooker
Oldies and Oddities

The Flying Winnebago

For some reason the heli-camper never really caught on.

James R. Chiles
Moments and Milestones

From Point A to Point A

Twenty-five years ago, Burt Rutan’s Voyager became the first aircraft to make an around-the-world flight without refueling.