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Anousheh Ansari before her launch to the International Space Station in September 2006.

A & S Interview: Anousheh Ansari

The X-Prize sponsor and space tourist talks about trips to orbit, past and future.
September 01, 2007 | By Bettina H. Chavanne

A four-place kitplane with a pusher propeller, the Velocity SE FG offered a sturdy off-the-shelf airframe for a rocket-engine modification.

X-Racers

Can aviation's newest spectator sport lead to routine space travel?
September 2007 | By Larry Lowe

In the Dreamliner

How Boeing Put the Dream in Dreamliner

When aircraft designers wanted to make passengers feel happy, they turned to psychologists.
September 2007 | By Douglas Gantenbein

The developers of Cargolifter CL 160, a German design, used to say that their craft could carry 26,000 pounds of food to disaster victims. But the Cargolifter itself needs aid now; its parent company has declared bankruptcy.

Spy Blimps and Heavy Lifters

The latest thing in airships.
September 2007 | By Ben Iannotta

Researchers have been looking far and wide for biofuel sources, including switchgrass.

Fly Green!

Richard Branson and Boeing heap hope-and hype-on biofuels.
September 2007 | By Michael Milstein

The FAA classifies the Osprey as a "powered lift" aircraft-neither airplane nor rotorcraft.

Tilters

You might say that Osprey pilots are neither fish nor fowl.
September 2007 | By John Croft

The Orion simulator: The shape is as old as Apollo, but the dashboard is all new.

Orion's Brain

NASA's new space capsule has a mind of its own.
September 2007 | By Michael Klesius

Anatoly Zak (Moon image: NASA)

Lunar Clipper

With rich tourists traveling to Earth orbit, can a cruise around the moon be far behind?
September 2007 | By Anatoly Zak

A pulse detonation engine, fueled by ethylene and air, fires on a test stand at a General Electric research center.

Son of a Buzz Bomb

An engine with a checkered past is the power of the future.
September 2007 | By Jim Mathews

Why do airline seats have to be in an upright position during takeoff?

The rules are confusing, but the safety concern is real.
September 01, 2007 | By Joe Pappalardo

Rare Bear takes off for the Saturday Gold race. On Sunday, pilot John Penney finished first in the Unlimited class.

Notes from the Reno Races

Dispatches from the 2007 National Championship Air Races.
September 2007 | By Larry Lowe

The roving Mars Science Laboratory prepares to drop to the Martian surface, using a new (for Mars) Skycrane maneuver.

Legs, Bags, or Wheels?

When choosing landing gear for Mars spacecraft, engineers have to weigh their options-literally.
August 2007 | By Tony Reichhardt

The Phoenix lander (artist

Northern Exposure

We've already seen water ice on Mars. NASA's Phoenix lander will reach out and touch it.
August 2007 | By Charles Petit

On May 17, 1913, Cuban aviation pioneer Domingo Rosillo used a naval escort to make the Key West-to-Cuba trip in a French Morane-Sulnier.

Book Excerpt: "On Cuban Wings"

Chronicling the island's rich aviation history
August 2007 | By Jorge and Diana Rodriguez

Airplanes, not automobiles, cruised the Malecon on parade day in 1953 to mark the 40th anniversary of Parla

The Country Where Nobody Flies

Did Cuba abandon its private pilots or did they abandon Cuba?
August 2007 | By Rafael Lima

Pat McNerney flies the Kreider-Reisner as its 28th owner.

Popularity Contest

Which one of six past champions would have gotten your vote?
August 2007 | By Linda Shiner

The author, whose father was first secretary for the Soviet Communist Paty from 1953 to 1964, relaxes in his office at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

We Shocked the World

Nikita Khrushchev's son recalls the night Sputnik made history.
August 2007 | By Sergei Khrushchev (Translated by Lyudmila Khomenko Chillico)

Visions of spaceflight, like Friedrich Tsander

Russia's Long Love Affair with Space

It started with Utopian dreams and rocketeers.
August 2007 | By Asif Siddiqi

Inside a Douglas DC-6 passenger liner in the mid-1950s.

Clearing the (Cabin) Air

A new research program aims to answer the old question: Is the air in airplanes really unhealthy?
August 2007 | By Bettina H. Chavanne

Even when scalawags shuffle airport letters, it

Magic Airport

Watch the Burning Man revelers pull an airport out of the desert...then make it disappear.
August 2007 | By Chad Slattery


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