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Air Recreation

Leisure activities and hobbies related to aviation such as air racing, stunt flying, skydiving and air shows
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416 MPH

Not all speed records look fast on video, but this one does.
February 06, 2012 | By Tony Reichhardt

Do Something

Washington struggles for a response to last year’s Reno Air Races crash.
January 10, 2012 | By Linda Shiner

About Those Space Joyrides…

The first suborbital tourists will spend up to $200,000 for a few precious minutes of weightlessness. How many minutes will they get?
January 06, 2012 | By David Warmflash

Musk’s One-in-a-Million Proposition

The SpaceX founder talks Martian real estate.
January 04, 2012 | By Tony Reichhardt

Nakajima B5N Kate bomber

A Pearl Harbor Mystery

How a 1940s Interstate Cadet trainer sent a famous airshow pilot on a journey to find a kindred spirit.
January 2012 | By John Fleischman

Extra 330

The Kids Are Trying to Crash

Remote-control models face off in the Extreme Flight Championships.
January 2012 | By Preston Lerner

Pilot Bruce Moore and photographer Jim Koepnick

Pointer and Shooter

To nail the air-to-air shot, pilot and photographer have to work together like, well, this pair.
January 2012 | By Debbie Gary

SpaceShipTwo: The Story So Far

Progress on the path to suborbital tourism.
November 03, 2011 | By Tony Reichhardt

Green Light for Fuel-Efficiency Races in California

Teams gathered their experimental planes in Santa Rosa, California last week for a competition of their environmental industriousness.
October 03, 2011 | By Heather Goss

Tragedy at Reno

What it was like in the pits that day.
September 19, 2011 | By Linda Shiner

Duck!

Even helping Jeb Corliss looks scary. Here’s the master of the wingsuit doing his thing in close proximity to canyon walls, as seen from multiple camera angles.
September 05, 2011 | By Tony Reichhardt

Going Once….The 1920 Pulitzer Race Trophy

From the Chicago Daily Tribune, November 28, 1920: "At last the pride of the Army air service, the Verville-Packard chasse biplane, has established its worth by romping ahead of thirty-four starters in the first Pulitzer...
September 02, 2011 | By Rebecca Maksel

The China Clipper "scudded along a considerable sea swell" before vaulting into the air, reported Leo Kieran.

Moments and Milestones: Once Around

The 75th anniversary of a round-the-world trip.
September 2011 | By George C. Larson, Member, NAA

An emotional Gene Breiner (at lectern, with daughter Joyce and General Jack Dailey, director of the National Air and Space Museum) donated Plane Jane to the Museum this past June in hopes of inspiring future pilots.

In the Museum: A Fleet’s Final Flight

A civilian flight trainer enters the collections.
September 2011 | By Rebecca Maksel

Andy Chiavetta inspects a new carbonfiber wing for his LT-1 kitplane at his shop in San Clemente, California.

A & S Interview: Andy Chiavetta

The Reno Kid, raceplane builder par excellence.
September 2011 | By Linda Shiner

Patty Wagstaff’s latest mission:  use the discipline of aerobatics to combat the chaos of California wildfires (photo-composite).

Patty Wagstaff’s Second Act

An airshow superstar adds firefighting to her repertoire.
August 2011 | By Debbie Gary

Giuseppe Genchi, who found a trove of engine parts at the University of Palermo, spent countless hours restoring an 11-cylinder rotary engine from World War I.

Genchi’s Obsession

A grad student in Italy salvages Germany's rarest World War I airplane engines.
August 2011 | By Andrew Lawler

Located in Sweden’s isolated far north, the tiny town of Kiruna, with its Esrange rocket range, hopes to become a major space tourism attraction.

Spaceport at the Top of the World

How an ore-mining town in Sweden sees a new identity over the horizon.
August 2011 | By Andrew Curry

Paul Mantz, circa 1928, fresh out of the Army Air Corps and headed for Hollywood.

Above and Beyond: Mantz Versus the Volcano

Filming for Cinerama with a fearless flyer.
August 2011 | By James Morrison

Jamie Stowell the sole female cadet enjoyed her turn at a 50 caliber machine gun Im not a gun nut she says But oh my God Its just astonishing power

Two Days in the Life of a B-24 Crew

Take a fantasy flight in a real, live Liberator.
July 2011 | By Stephen Joiner


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