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Hit Me WIth Your Best Shot
Our photo editor offers 12 tips to make your airshow album a work of art.
May 2009 |
By Caroline Sheen
Pass the Remote
That is, the remote control for my "RC" airplane (it actually stands for radio controlled). The first time I watched this video of Belgian armchair pilot extraordinaire Benoit Dierickx (who flies 737s for a living) putting a super-light model F3A aerobatic airplane through its paces inside a gymnas...
March 25, 2009 |
By Mike Klesius
Family Formation
The son of famed airshow pilot Sean Tucker follows in his father’s smoke trails.
March 17, 2009 |
By Jill Michaels
Bring Back the Brute
A GeeBee racer in flyable condition? Don’t do it.
March 2009 |
By ROBERT BERNIER
A Walk in the Airpark
Rest and renewal in a long-standing pilot community.
March 2009 |
By Del Wilber
Two-Timer
Where do you take your next vacation after you’ve been to space? If you’re billionaire Charles Simonyi, you go back.
February 19, 2009 |
By Irene Klotz
You’ve Got Mailplanes
Square-tail Stearmans, straight-wing Wacos, and Hisso Jennies top the roster of antique airplanes at a captivating grass strip in Iowa.
January 2009 |
By John Fleischman
Welcome to Cyberairspace
Where you can fly from Chicago to Atlanta without leaving your living room.
January 2009 |
By Ed Regis
Photo Essay:The Blakesburg Fly-In
Antique airplanes—the cream of the crop—fluttered around corn country to celebrate an air mail birthday.
November 18, 2008 |
By airspacemag.com
Tuning In
What to listen to when you're pretending to be a pilot.
November 18, 2008 |
By Diane Tedeschi
Accidental Classic
From the designers who brought you the P-51 Mustang, an airplane with a complicated past…and a controversial present.
November 2008 |
By Mark Huber
Restoration: The Memphis Belle
For this famous B-17, surviving 25 missions in World War II was the easy part.
November 2008 |
By Mark Bernstein
A&S Interview: Farouk El-Baz
A veteran space scientist discusses the challenges of the 21st Century.
November 2008 |
By Elizabeth Howell
Flying Tigercats: And Then There Were Five
A couple of strays join the prowl, and the world’s supply of flyable Grumman F7Fs increases by two-thirds.
October 24, 2008 |
By Michael Klesius
A Ride in the Boeing 40C
Onboard “Airmail 1” for the first leg of the trip, from New York to Bellefonte.
September 11, 2008 |
By Rebecca Maksel
Postcard from Oshkosh
Air & Space picks the best of this year’s EAA Airventure.
August 03, 2008 |
By The Editors
