Editors' Picks
Printed in Space
If your star tracker breaks on the way to the moon, just hit Command P.
Area 51: Origins
America’s once-secret air base had humble beginnings.
Need for Speed
Airplanes with a mission: Fly faster.
The Invention of Flight
Inventors, dreamers, daredevils, charlatans: Aviation's early years had them all.
Vietnam Memoir
Stories from the war that shaped a generation.
In 1966, the author of The Grapes of Wrath met a new working class: Hueys, Hercs, and Spooky.
August 2012
| By The Editors
UFO investigations may have been the least exciting duty for the Air Intelligence Service Squadron.
August 2012
| By Mark Wolverton
During World War II, a raven helped alert the city to approaching bombers.
July 02, 2012
| By Rebecca Maksel
The call that makes every Apache pilot freeze.
June 18, 2012
| By Rebecca Maksel
How psychologists conditioned soldiers and civilians to the sounds of combat during World War II.
June 07, 2012
| By Rebecca Maksel
Inventors, dreamers, daredevils, charlatans: Aviation's early years had them all.
The legendary WWII fighter wasn't so fast getting out of the factory.
May 23, 2012
| By Rebecca Maksel
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
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
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