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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, right, meets filmmaker James Cameron at the space agency

Cameron’s Camera

Avatar’s creator hopes to direct the first movies shot on Mars.
March 23, 2010 | By Tony Reichhardt

Video: Indoor Helicopter

Robot aircraft keep getting smaller and smarter. This one, built by a team at MIT, won the International Aerial Robotics Competition 5th mission challenge, which required that it enter a building, find its way around (through hallways and open windows), and send video back to home base. All autonom...
November 05, 2009 | By Tony Reichhardt

A cloaking device is made of copper rings, each surrounded by 10 layers of meta-material.

Now You See It, Now You Don’t

Blinding us with science: the next generation of stealth.
November 2009 | By Damond Benningfield

Viewport: See the World

November 2009 | By J.R. Dailey

Inventions large and small have combined over the years to create the modern experience of air travel. And you don’t have to be a frequent flier to know that today’s airliner is still a work in progress: What you see today may not be there tomorrow.

Anatomy of an Airliner

Our maxim: The airlines giveth, and the airlines taketh away.
September 2009 | By The Editors

Designers (from left) Tom Hudspeth, Harold Rosen, and Don Williams, holding a tube for amplifying radio frequency signals, surround the world’s first geosynchronous satellite, Syncom.

Spin Doctors

For that satellite dish on your roof and the phone calls you make to Japan, you can thank Harold Rosen.
September 2009 | By Guy Gugliotta

The F-14 was the first fighter to rely on a digital computer to optimize performance. Its microprocessor adjusted its wing sweep.

The Road to the Future… Is Paved With Good Inventions

We bring you 10 great ideas that made flying safer, easier, or just a whole lot more fun.
September 2009 | By The Editors

Before the SpeedHawk, Piasecki studied how Cobras (pictured) and Apaches would fly with ducted propellers.

Hot-Rod Helicopters

There’s just no way to add 100 mph to the speed of a helicopter. Or is there?
September 2009 | By James R. Chiles

Test flights in Akron, Ohio, 1956 — the Inflatoplane’s brief moment in the sun.

The Department of Never Mind

A collection of six inventions that prompt a single question: What the…?
September 2009 | By The Editors

In the May 25, 1909 issue of Britain’s The Aero, a caption referred to “The ailerons or small planes” (arrows) on Samuel Cody’s British Army Aeroplane.

Oldies and Oddities: Where Do Ailerons Come From?

September 2009 | By Tom Crouch

Moments and Milestones: Unknown Unknowns

September 2009 | By The Editors

Can Pete Buck adapt technology to convert a Sonex model into a practical electric airplane?

The Electric Airplane

Quiet, smooth, dependable—shouldn’t we be flying these by now?
August 2009 | By Peter Garrison

Broken microcapsules leave impressions seen through a microscope after a healing agent has bled out in a fracture plane of a composite material.

How Things Work: Self-Healing Airplanes

Several technologies that could put mechanics out of work.
July 2009 | By Tom LeCompte

Space flight

Step Outside

Shuck the spacecraft. 182 spacewalkers have.
July 2009 | By Tony Reichhardt

Brad Barker in Houston in 2004. Barker was one of several murder suspects involved with the rocket belt he helped to build.

The Rocketbelt Caper

A true tale of invention, obsession, and murder.
March 03, 2009 | By Paul Brown

How Things Work: Flying Fuel Cells

Out of gas? Not a problem.
March 2009 | By Michael Klesius

Australian Gary Redman won first place in the international college category for his 24-seat OIONOS commuter airplane.

Inexperience Wanted

Student engineers answer NASA’s call to design the airplane of 2058.
August 06, 2008 | By Michael Klesius

1. Langley Landers (1961) In August of 1961, engineer John Houbolt gave one of many presentations to the Space Task Group [at NASA

Lunar Landers That Never Were

The road to the moon was paved with good intentions.
January 01, 2008 | By Tony Reichhardt

Would Patent #1,665,114 fly? Only in Tesla

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

Robonaut was designed to work outside the space station so that astronauts wouldn

Robo Repairmen

It's getting harder to find good help these days. So these space engineers built their own
July 2005 | By Michael Behar


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