Editors' Picks
What the astronauts really said
Apollo "onboard voice" recordings captured the moon astronauts' conversations -- cussing and all -- when no one else was listening.
Drones for Hire
The newest eyes in the sky are drawing the attention of power companies, conservation groups, and the ACLU.
Five Reasons to Like NASA’s Asteroid Retrieval Mission
So it's not the Moon or Mars. Get over it.
The Invention of Flight
Inventors, dreamers, daredevils, charlatans: Aviation's early years had them all.
Disaster at Xichang
An eyewitness speaks publicly for the first time about history’s worst launch accident.
Long before Swanson's TV dinner, there was the Maxson Sky Plate.
May 17, 2012
| By Rebecca Maksel
For the first time since World War II, fighters are stationed at RAF Northolt.
July 2012
| By Carl Posey
Naval aviators push Qaddafi's buttons in a 1981 exercise.
July 2012
| By Commander Thompson E. 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
In February 1912, Capt. Albert Berry made the first parachute jump from an airplane.
February 29, 2012
| By Tony Reichhardt
A few months into testing, the new cargo helo seems to be performing well.
February 15, 2012
| By Heather Goss
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