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Explore Air & Space articles by century or aviation era.The story of aviation from early flight to the modern era
Swing Wings
It's all done with computers (and good old-fashioned hydraulics).
September 2006 |
By Joe Pappalardo
Persian Cats
How Iranian air crews, cut off from U.S. technical support, used the F-14 against Iraqi attackers.
September 2006 |
By Tom Cooper
The Grumman Cats
Just under nine lives that created a company legend.
September 2006 |
By Brian Nicklas
Star Quality
How did we love the Tomcat? On the 20th anniversary of Top Gun, we count the ways.
September 2006 |
By The Editors
Pluto's Planethood: What Now?
Two leading scientific experts debate whether eight is enough.
September 2006 |
By airspacemag.com
Mission to Enceladus
NASA summer students plot a course for Saturn's mysterious ice world.
September 2006 |
By Tony Reichhardt
Show Me the Way to Go Home
Long before the Global Positioning System,
pilots got from town to town by reading rooftops.
September 2006 |
By Roger A. Mola
Where the War Began
A new aviation museum preserves Pearl Harbor's past.
September 2006 |
By Ralph Wetterhahn
In the Museum: Lindbergh for Sale
Stanley King's memorabilia collection.
September 2006 |
By Diane Tedeschi
Home on the Plains
Gus Grissom's Mercury capsule settles down in Kansas.
September 2006 |
By Paul Hoversten
Moonwhackers
Europe's SMART-1 is the first of several lunar crashes on the drawing board.
September 2006 |
By Tony Reichhardt
A Hard Day's Night
Cold war B-52s flew an icy northern route on alert for a Soviet missile strike.
September 2006 |
By Bill Robinson
Nikola Tesla's Curious Contrivance
"You should not be at all surprised if someday you see me fly from New York to Colorado Springs in a contrivance which will resemble a gas stove and weigh almost as much." Nikola Tesla, 1913
September 2006 |
By A.J.S. RAYL
Cessna's Golden Oldie
What flies into your mind when you hear the words "light aircraft"? We bet it's the 172.
July 2006 |
By Roger A. Mola
At the Movies: Take Two
World War I airplanes star in a feature film about the Lafayette Escadrille.
July 2006 |
By Tom LeCompte
Commentary: Thank You For Not Flying
Helicopter ambulances could be hazardous
to your health.
July 2006 |
By Bryan E. Bledsoe M.D.
Glenn Curtiss Slept Here
Has Hammondsport, New York, done right by its most famous citizen?
July 2006 |
By Phil Scott
