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November 2012

Features

One reason more soldiers are making it home alive.

If your star tracker breaks on the way to the moon, just hit Command P.

Fifty years later, Cubans remember preparing to fight the Americans.

Rafael Lima

De Havilland D.H.98 Mosquito

Graham Chandler

The Bell 47, famous as the star of “Whirlybirds,” was the DC-3 of helicopters. Could it make a comeback?

While monster telescopes get the attention, the little guys quietly — and cheaply — rack up cosmic finds.

Some of the airplanes that loom largest in our collective memory have flown only in the movies

Preston Lerner

A World War II British foot soldier’s best friend in the air, and the man who rescued Ernest Hemingway.

Tim Belknap

Viewport

Seeing is believing.

J.R. Dailey

In the Museum

Can’t make it to the Museum? There might be an artifact on loan right in your neighborhood.

Above & Beyond

A Navy aircrew got it on film.

Paul F. Stiller

Oldies and Oddities

A Buckminster Fuller design was grounded in aerospace technology.

Nick D’Alto

Moments and Milestones

75 years ago, the Army Air Corps’ XC-35 launched the pressurized cabin.