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March 2009

Features

Meet the first commercial rocketship pilots.

Michael Belfiore

The only thing that kept Canada from beating the U.S. to a jet airliner was Canada.

Graham Chandler

Rest and renewal in a long-standing pilot community.

Del Wilber

If you want a customer to spend $10 billion on your jet fighters, you gotta bust some Mach.

Jorge and Karen Escalona

A spacecraft bites the lunar dust.

Out of gas? Not a problem.

Michael Klesius

In space no one can hear you sing.

A GeeBee racer in flyable condition? Don’t do it.

How the Republic F-105 got good at a mission it was not designed to fly

Viewport

From the desk of the Director of the National Air & Space Museum

J. R. Dailey

In the Museum

Michael Klesius

Above & Beyond

There's more than one way to dump extra fuel before landing

Lieutenant Colonel Alfred (Joe) D’Amario, U.S. Air Force (ret.)

Oldies and Oddities

A California hot-rodder took on the feuding Arfons brothers in the 1960s.

Then & Now

Roger A. Mola

Moments and Milestones