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.
Piloting an Apache helicopter almost always meant both hands and feet doing four different things at once.
February 03, 2012
| By Rebecca Maksel
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is trying out innovation the 21st century way: crowdsourcing.
January 25, 2012
| By Heather Goss
They survived the mission; would they survive the landing?
March 2012
| By Tom Murphy
The first rotary-wing UAV entered military service in 1962—and remained in operation until 1997.
March 2012
| By Rebecca Maksel
How Will Whiteside and his team transformed a light trainer into a racer.
March 2012
| By George C. Larson, Member, NAA
The life and mysterious death of an American ace in the Spanish Civil War
March 2012
| By The Editors
The Navy wanted a nuclear bomber of its own; the Glenn Martin Company thought, Why not a flying boat?
March 2012
| By Mark Wolverton
Like bomber crews on 100-plane raids, today’s B-17 owners find strength—and survival—in numbers.
March 2012
| By Brendan McNally
A salute to 10 aircraft that carried the few and the proud into history.
March 2012
| By The Editors
He flew the first flight of the F-14A Tomcat in 1970, but made bigger headlines when he had to eject from the aircraft just nine days later.
January 11, 2012
| By George Larson
The B-2 needs four fill-ups to keep flying.
January 05, 2012
| By Rebecca Maksel
Lockheed Martin held their first Tweetup this week, inviting fans to see the last F-22 roll out of the factory. So what exactly is a Tweetup, and how did they start?
December 20, 2011
| By Heather Goss
Alert: If you see a Starfighter in a parking lot, contact this Dutch museum.
December 19, 2011
| By Pat Trenner
Whether you love it or hate it, John Gillespie Magee's "High Flight" remains the most enduring of aviation poems.
December 08, 2011
| By Rebecca Maksel
Don't go looking for F-16s or A-10s at military airshows from now on. The F-22 will be performing solo.
December 07, 2011
| By Pat Trenner
When the Eighth Air Force wanted to protect its bomber crews, it asked medieval armor specialists for advice.
November 21, 2011
| By Rebecca Maksel
Writer Joseph Heller drew on his own wartime experience for his 1961 masterpiece.
November 11, 2011
| By Rebecca Maksel
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