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The aviators, scientists, engineers and astronauts who have shaped the story of air and space flightDiscover Air & Space articles about the people who have shaped the history of flight – and those who will shape its future.
Stupid Plane Tricks
Breathes there the pilot with soul so dead who never to himself hath said, "I bet I can fly under that bridge"?
November 2001 |
By Phil Scott
The Avengers
They torpedoed enemy ships during World War II. Now they fight fire.
November 2001 |
By Marshall Lumsden
The Reunion
A fighter pilot, his escort, and one hell of a coincidence.
September 2001 |
By John Fleischman
The Detroit Airlift
This hard-working band of pilots and fleet of weary airplanes keep the U.S. auto industry rolling along.
July 2001 |
By Mark Huber
Commentary: A More Perfect Astronaut
With new techniques in genetic experimentation, can biologists make hardier space dwellers?
July 2001 |
By Kenneth S. Kosik
The Fastest Show on Earth
How two Lockheed F-104 Starfighters became airshow stars.
May 2001 |
By Carl Hoffman
Hill Climb
Why General Electric put an airplane engine on a truck and drove it to the top of Pikes Peak.
May 2001 |
By Donald Sherman
Q
When the job demands ingenuity, NASA engineers whip gadgets worthy of James Bond.
May 2001 |
By Eric Adams
Particle Man
Sam Ting is on a mission: find the other half of the universe.
May 2001 |
By Andrew Lawler
The Hammer
For every airplane, there's a region of the flight envelope into which it dare not fly.
March 2001 |
By Peter Garrison
High Tension
Helicopter pilots play chicken with high-voltage power lines so crews can work on live wires.
March 2001 |
By James R. Chiles
What Were They Thinking?
The wonderful, unworkable world of airplane design in the years before the Wright brothers.
March 2001 |
By Phil Scott
Memories of Kosovo
A helicopter pilot recalls his peacekeeping tour of duty over one of the world's most strife-torn regions.
January 2001 |
By Jonathan Knaul
Test Drivers
Behind the glamour boys in X-planes is an entire profession making sure your Cessna has its wings on straight.
January 2001 |
By D.C. Agle
Home Grown
Once swallowed whole by TWA, local Missouri favorite Ozark Air Lines flies again.
January 2001 |
By Nan Chase
