Air & Space Magazine

A loaded C-47 is poised to take off from a base in Vietnam, 1967.

Plausible Denial

A daring mission to fly combat in Vietnam came with a catch—no one else could know.

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Natural Selection

New Zealand foresters are perfecting a helicopter operation that alows them to preserve forests while they extract trees.

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A More Perfect Union

Rather than criticize Russia's performance in the space station partnership, the U.S. should examine its own.

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Tanks, Hot Rods, and Salt

Hot rod racing has borrowed ideas from WWII aviation, but for some old racers, the link to airplanes is direct.

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Air Racing

The best and the brightest and the fastest through the ages.

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Thin Air, High Hopes

Ballooning's grand prize still beckons--at the end of a 15,835-mile journey.

The Grumman OV-1 Mohawk.

The Last of the Mohawks

Grumman's triple-tail, bug-eyed, heat-seeking camera platform

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Gary and the Pirates

How to rescue old airplanes for fun and profit.

Arthur C. Clarke (far right) and other members of the British Interplanetary Society had a visit from rocket pioneer Robert Truax (holding the rocket model) in 1938.

H.M.S. Moon Rocket

In the 1930s, Arthur C. Clarke and friends designed their own lunar mission.

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Portraits by Mayfield

The tale of a photographer with the Wright stuff.

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Seek Answers, Not Questions

The best road map for the future of space science may the the one we already have.

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Company Town

Names matter in Friedrichshafen, particularly that of Zeppelin.

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The Nine Lives of Slick Six

Hope springs eternal at SLC-6, even if rockets don't.

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One Good Year

That's all the Boeing 247 had--until 1996.

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Saturn Rising

One of the Apollo program's famous launch vehicles is given a new lease on life.

The A-37 Dragonfly was a small but capable attack bomber.

Escape to U Taphao

In the final days of the Vietnam war, chaos and heroism converged in the effort to evacuate U.S.-supplied aircraft.

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The Rotary Cup

"And the gold medal for the drop-the-skittle-in-the-doghouse event goes to the helicopter crew from..."

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Burial at Sea

A squadron of Navy A-6 Intruders pulls a new--and final--assignment.

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Power Struggle

Visionaries have long seen a source for cheap, plentiful airplane engines on roads and driveways. Why then aren't more car engines in the air?

Safe harbor: A Soyuz (foreground) and Progress supply vehicle docked to the International Space Station in August 2007.

United We Orbit

It's a story of spacecraft meets spacecraft.

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