Editors' Picks
Is SpaceX changing the rocket equation?
1 visionary + 3 launchers + 1,500 employees = ?
The Spirit of Santa Monica
Between 1920 and 1975, Donald Douglas’ company—and a southern California city—helped shape aviation history.
Killer at 70,000 Feet
The occupational hazards of flying the U-2.
The Weird World of Folk Aviators
With his whimsical sculptures, Gregory Bryant celebrates early ideas about winged flight.
High Spy: The Amazing U-2
Still keeping watch after more than 50 years.
Under the Eurofighter’s Hood
Europe’s frontline fighter is a marvel of technology.
May 21, 2012
| By Carl Posey
Long before Swanson's TV dinner, there was the Maxson Sky Plate.
May 17, 2012
| By Rebecca Maksel
Naval aviators push Qaddafi's buttons in a 1981 exercise.
July 2012
| By Commander Thompson S. Sanders U.S. Navy (Ret.)
Text messaging, from 1912 to 2012.
May 14, 2012
| By Rebecca Maksel
On his record-setting flight in 1938, the billionaire had two navigators, only one of which was human.
April 23, 2012
| By Rebecca Maksel
Barry Crawford is honored for his heroism as a combat air controller in Afghanistan.
April 13, 2012
| By Air & Space / Smithsonian magazine
One of Lockheed’s former chief test pilots for high altitude reconnaissance describes the joys and terrors of the U-2.
March 2012
| By Linda Shiner
A bizarre case of mistaken identity almost cost a World War II B-17 commander his life.
March 13, 2012
| By Rebecca Maksel
Before instrument landing systems, military pilots relied on controllers to steer them right to the runway.
March 2012
| By Robert P. Mark
In World War II Britain, a new group of pilots answered the call to serve.
May 2012
| By Yona Zeldis McDonough
It started with a search for images of his hometown in China. Hundreds of miles of film later, he can't stop looking.
May 2012
| By Rebecca Maksel
Events that made the U-2 the world's most famous player in the game of espionage.
May 2012
| By Paul Hoversten
The U.S. Air Force announced last weekend that the competition to build the next bomber is already underway.
March 02, 2012
| By Heather Goss
Grant Morton wasn't the first to parachute from an airplane, or even the second.
March 01, 2012
| By Tony Reichhardt
A hundred years ago tomorrow, Capt. Albert Berry made the first parachute jump from an airplane.
February 29, 2012
| By Tony Reichhardt
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