Since our first issue in April/May 1986, we've printed a total of 154 magazine covers.
That's a lot of airplanes, spacecraft, pilots, and astronauts.
We've posted 25 of them here—one from each of the 25 years we've been publishing. Let us know which is your favorite, and use the comments form to tell us what you'd like to see on future covers.
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Comments (11)
Happy 25th Anniversary Air & Space mag!!! Keep up the great work and interesting articles - nothing else compares. We can learn so much from our past history - both the successes and the failures. EDITORS' REPLY: Thanks for your kind words; much appreciated.
Posted by Glenn G. Whiteside on March 21,2011 | 12:21 AM
Time sure flies (no pun intended!) -- it's hard to believe that it has been a quarter century since I signed up for a subscription to the new magazine from Smithsonian -- Smithsonian Air & Space.
As a charter subscriber to "Smithsonian Air & Space", and a mechanical engineer working in the aerospace/defense industry for 30 years, I have found much of interest in the unequaled variety and quality of articles and features that have appeared in "Air & Space" over the past 25 years. In fact, some of the most interesting things I have read in the magazine have been items on subjects that were new to me. I look forward to each issue of the magazine, and hope to continue to see it showing up in my mailbox every two months for many years to come. EDITORS' REPLY: Thanks for the generous comments. They're much appreciated.
Posted by Gary K. McCormick on March 24,2011 | 11:56 AM
Just showing the MAJESTY OF A PLANE IN FLIGHT
Hard to pick one - Actually any of them showing this.
Thanks.
Posted by Nancy Guthrie on March 24,2011 | 12:03 PM
The SR-71 Blackbird is an amazing machine.This is why I voted for the Oct/Nov 1990 cover. It began the "stealth" era, and set speed records. The telling of its story also helped readers get inside the phenomenal work of DARPA (the "Skunk Works"). Happy 25!. EDITORS' REPLY: Thanks (and good choice).
Posted by Philip Andon-McLane on March 24,2011 | 01:52 PM
I am a Charter subscriber to Air & Space magazine and had to get out pencil and paper to check the year it started to believe it was 25 years ago.
I have been a diehard airplane fan since I was 5 years old and saw Lindbergh land in a Ryan Brougham at Santa Barbara Airport in my hometown of Carpinteria, CA.
I was a model airplane builder in my youth and still am today. I never learned to fly full scale aircraft but I had some wild rides in Burma during WWII including a trip over the Hump heading home from China after VJ Day.
Happy 25th Birthday Air & Spaec Mag.
Lescher Dowling. EDITORS' REPLY: Thank you!
Posted by Lescher Dowling on March 24,2011 | 02:16 PM
One thing I look forward to every month is the latest Air & Space magazine to arrive in the mail. It is the only magazine I always read cover to cover and enjoy it all. Here's to 25 more!! EDITORS' REPLY: Gosh, thanks! We appreciate the support, and hope you continue to enjoy the magazine.
Posted by Js Hoopes on March 24,2011 | 08:21 PM
I watched the National Air and Space Museum being built, peering into any available window and counting the days until opening. I've visited many times, usually my first stop when in Washington. When I can't be there in person, the magazine has helped bring the museum to me. I look forward to every issue.
Thanks and Happy Anniversary!
Ellen Weisbecker. EDITORS' REPLY: Thanks for the kind words!
Posted by Ellen Weisbecker on March 24,2011 | 01:09 AM
Love anything about biplanes, especially antique planes including mono wing, tri wing or otherwise. Also, please write more articles regarding the progress of electric airplanes, solar powered or otherwise - UAVs and "air" craft being designed to fly in atmospheres surrounding other planets.
Love the magazine
Sincerely,
Hugh Atnip. EDITORS' REPLY: Thanks for the suggestions, and the kind words.
Posted by Hugh Atnip on March 26,2011 | 11:06 AM
Jack --
You have done a Terrific Job of 'Leading' -- the Air & Space Museum during the past several years.
Congratulations on the 25th Anniversary of the Air & Space
Magazine. It is one of my Favorite Publications and I look
forward to each and every issue. I also appreciate the
creativity you demonstrate in writing your monthly column,
VIEWPOINT.
Keep on -- Keeping On and know that You are Appreciated.
Semper Fidelis,
Frazz
4-56 Marine Basic School
Posted by Frazz on March 28,2011 | 02:08 PM
Jack,
Happy Birthday on the 25th anniversary of Air and
Space. You have made all of your 4-56 classmates
so very proud of the great job you have done.
Semper Fi,
Dick Gagliardi 4-56
Posted by Dick Gagliardi on March 28,2011 | 02:17 PM
I have been visiting the Museum actually since before it opened to the public. But that's another story. But be assured, like others writing in, I love it.
I join those wishing the Mag a congratulatory happy birthday and confess that I too anxiously await the arrival of the next edition. The photography is always excellent and the subject matter of your segments/stories is great.
However, I find the actual text often flawed. Either important portions of a story is left out or there are technical errors. And other simple things like mis-stating a persons age (Kittinger). This has been going on for years and never seems to get better. One thing I notice is that the named authors are almost never one of your staff. Outsourcing can be a great resource but when it is used almost exclusively, the user often wonders if this is an effort to point the blame finger at someone on the outside. In the case of Air Space, a name for this phenomenon came to me several years ago, "Drive-by Journalism". It is my opinion that many of the pieces in the Mag have not had the appropriate amount of Editorial oversight and there is a lack of accountability. It is with great reluctance that these comments are made because I fear the "Corrections" segment, which was way too long in the May edition, could dry up from embarrassment.
Thanks for the invitation to comment.
Posted by Martin Coddington on March 30,2011 | 10:48 AM