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The book that robbed the enemy of his secrets. A key to shapes shows a circle can be a haystack or a gun emplacement.

Portrait of the Enemy

Photographs taken from the world’s first warplanes changed the course of battle.
September 2008 | By Robin White

The P-47D carried eight guns and, on some models, rocket launchers.

Book Excerpt: Hell Hawks!

How P-47s became the tank busters of World War II
July 14, 2008 | By Robert F. Dorr and Thomas D. Jones

Humans vs. Robots

Which way lies our future in space? A discussion.
June 27, 2008 | By Tony Reichhardt

Police helicopters and ambulances at the Pentagon, September 11, 2001.

9/11: The Saga of the Skies

Chaos and control over Washington, while the Pentagon burned.
May 15, 2008 | By Lynn Spencer

A & S Interview: Dick Anderegg

A talk with the Air Force historian.
May 2008 | By Patricia Trenner

Cromwell Dixon in his Curtiss biplane at the Helena fairgounds on September 30, 1911.

Across the Divide in 1911

A new biography details the exploits of teenage aviation pioneer Cromwell Dixon.
March 01, 2008 | By Tom Harpole

Curtiss on Curtiss

The aviation pioneer chronicled his life and work in a once rare (but now freely downloadable) 1912 book.
March 01, 2008 | By airspacemag.com

A & S Interview: Michael J. Neufeld

How much did Wernher von Braun know, and when did he know it?
January 01, 2008 | By Diane Tedeschi

A pilot waits somewhere in the south Pacific for a rescue plane in April 1944.

The Smithsonian Survival Guide

Tales of downed pilots led to one of the Institution's most important contributions to World War II.
January 01, 2008 | By Pamela M. Henson

A computational fluid dynamics image shows how air would behave when Rocketplane XP flies at 2.74 times the speed of sound; red is high pressure, blue is low.

The O Prize

Will Rocketplane launch spacecraft from Oklahoma?
November 2007 | By Michael Belfiore

The B-17 Memphis Belle.

WWII: A Reader's Guide to the Air War

Our pick of the best books and memoirs on World War II aviation.
November 01, 2007 | By Richard P. Hallion

Jay Barbree (left)and Gus Grissom around the time of the astronaut

Before the Fire

Veteran space reporter Jay Barbree recalls Apollo's darkest day.
November 01, 2007 | By Jay Barbree

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

Overhead lights at a factory in Santa Monica, California, are reflected in row upon row of Plexiglas noses destined for Douglas A-20 attack bombers.

300,000 Airplanes

Individual effort and mass production are equally represented in a new book celebrating World War II aircraft factories.
May 2007 | By The editors

Von Braun at his desk at the Marshall Space Flight Center in 1960, years after writing Project Mars.

Wernher von Braun, Novelist

Half a century ago, the rocket scientist tried his hand at fiction.
January 2007 | By airspacemag.com

Debuting in 1915, the petite French Nieuport 11 fighter was based on the design of several pre-war racers.

The Great Warplanes

Portraits of military aviation's first fleet.
November 2006 | By airspacemag.com

The D.VII entered service in 1918 and quickly established itself as the best fighter of the Great World War, as beloved by German pilots as it was feared by Allies.

Cecil Lewis' War

One writer's view of flying in WWI.
November 2006 | By airspacemag.com

How much is my Lindbergh photo worth?

Some Lindys are luckier than others.
November 01, 2006 | By Joe Pappalardo

By the time the author visited the space station in 2001, the view through the window of a docked shuttle (here, Discovery) had become part of life in orbit.

Shuttle Stop

The tensest moment in spaceflight: Docking with a 100-ton space station while orbiting Earth at five miles per second.
May 2006 | By Thomas D. Jones

His staff shot men and machines—here, a ship

Steichen's Navy

With museum-quality photographs, Edward Steichen showed the world what it was like to be a sailor at war.
March 2006 | By T.A. Heppenheimer


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