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Books and films about air and space
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An Aerial View of Geology

Photographer Michael Collier and his Cessna 180 bring North America's coastal landscapes into focus.
November 17, 2009 | By Rebecca Maksel

A P-38J-5-LO (foreground), a late Lightning variant, flies with an F-5, a later photo-recon version of the P-38. Only a handful of P-38s are flying today. Duckypoo may one day join them, if not in the air, then perhaps on the ground.

Can This P-38 Be Saved?

Lockheed P-38 Lightnings brought many a pilot home. This pilot would like to return the favor.
November 2009 | By David F. Toomey

Lieutenant Harold Robinson

Steichen Sent Me

Led by famed fashion photographer Edward Steichen, a group of camera men captured the action of World War II naval aviation.
October 01, 2009 | By Mark D. Faram

Bean hopes to complete 200 to 250 paintings of Apollo during his lifetime.

The Art of a Moonwalker

Alan Bean’s moonscapes show what photographs can’t.
August 2009 | By The Editors

Australia at night, as seen by a military weather satellite. That

Did Australians light signal fires for the astronauts?

And would they have been visible from space?
June 24, 2009 | By Rebecca Maksel

Vi Cowden during her service with the WASPs in the 1940s.

We Represented All Women

During World War II, WASPs proved that an airplane couldn’t tell the difference between a male and female pilot.
June 22, 2009 | By Jonna Dootlittle Hoppes

Voices from the Moon

What it was like, in the astronauts’ own words. Excerpts from a new book by Andrew Chaikin.
May 20, 2009 | By Andrew Chaikin with Victoria Kohl

The USS Akron

Lighter Than Air

An illustrated history of balloons and airships.
May 20, 2009 | By Tom D. Crouch

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

The Smithsonian’s Hollywood Moment

The makers of Night at the Museum took great pains to get it right.
May 07, 2009 | By Rebecca Maksel

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

The muralist, painter, and author Tom Lea

The Art of War

The paintings of Tom Lea, Life magazine's artist-correspondent during World War II.
February 06, 2009 | By Rebecca Maksel

Cities From the Sky

Sherman Fairchild, the photographer who transformed aviation
January 12, 2009 | By Rebecca Maksel

Malin with the prototype of one of his cameras in 1999. The flight version was lost on the ill-fated Mars Polar Lander later that year.

A Cameraman on Mars

If you really want to know the planet, flip through Mike Malin’s photo album.
January 2009 | By Andrew Chaikin

Animals Aloft

Aviation can sometimes be downright inhuman.
November 20, 2008 | By Rebecca Maksel

Sean Connery flies an autogyro

Live and Let Fly

Real pilots rate the performance of the airplanes in James Bond flicks.
September 2008 | By David Lande

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

Incoming correspondence is "triaged," says volunteer Guy Halford-MacLeod, who tracked down the 1963 Ozark Airline timetable to answer a recent query.

In the Museum: Mail Call

September 2008 | By Rebecca Maksel

The Airplanes of James Bond

After 46 hours watching all 22 films, our list numbers more than 150.
July 14, 2008 | By The Editors

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


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