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Airplane Restoration

Repairing and restoring old or damaged aircraft
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Chief technician Hanspeter Sennhauser smiles through the cockpit’s spacious greenhouse windscreen.

Alpine Air

The only thing more durable than these Junkers Ju 52s are the mountains over which they now fly sightseers.
May 2004 | By Linda Shiner

Project honcho Bob Cardin (in white shirt) warmed up admirers at Dayton, Ohio’s airshow last July. Glacier Girl took home the Rolls-Royce Aviation Heritage Trophy and the National Aviation Hall of Fame People’s Choice award.

Glacier Girl

The Lockheed P-38 saved from an icy tomb is now the star attraction in a previously quiet Kentucky town.
March 2004 | By Carl Hoffman

From a 1950 Navion on final approach, the Topatopa mountains loom large.

The People and Planes of Santa Paula

There's a hard-to-define quality that can't be found on a flight chart or listed in an airport directory.
March 2004 | By Marshall Lumsden

The prototype’s wing had a constant angle of sweep; tests led to a trademark leading edge kink in wings of production craft.

God Save the Vulcan!

The Royal Air Force Vulcan, immense cold war bomber and aerodynamic marvel, has been sentenced to permanent museum exhibition.
January 2004 | By Craig Mellow

Celestial Body

De Havilland's D.H. 106 Comet blazed the commercial jet trail but broke its nation's heart.
January 2004 | By Phil Scott

Passengers board 5339 three weeks before its 1928 crash.

Diamonds in the Wreck

Riches to rags and back again: A 1928 mailplane is reborn.
November 2003 | By Sam Goldberg

By 1927, airplanes were a national craze. At the original tour’s stop in Boston, crowds gathered for a closer look at the Ford 4-AT Tri-motor.

The Magical History Tour

Why are so many Golden Age airplanes traveling the country together this fall?
September 2003 | By Mary Collins

Yellow 10

Something about the Champlin Fighter Museum's Focke-Wulf 190D never seemed quite right.
September 2003 | By Howard Stansfield

Jackson and his technicians recently refurbished a civilian transport that had been converted from a Douglas A-26 Invader.

Sticks for Hire

"Uh oh. Why is this piston rod left over?" Meet the pilots who are gutsy enough to fly freshly restored airplanes.
July 2003 | By Mark Huber

On display at the Reno Air Races, the rule was “look, but don’t touch.” And best wear sunglasses, lest the highly polished aluminum skin sear your retinas.

Silver Bullet

No airplane in the world could outshine Howard Hughes' H-1 Racer--until Jim Wright built a copy of it.
May 2003 | By Preston Lerner

Occupying the exalted position reserved for research aircraft, Ken Hyde’s 1902 glider replica undergoes tests in a wind tunnel at NASA’s Langley center in Virginia.

In Search of the Real Wright Flyer

Building a replica of the first airplane requires a certain resourcefulness. Anybody got any horsehide glue?
January 2003 | By Phaedra Hise

U.S. Navy PBYs flew in every theater of the Pacific War, their long range ideal for patrolling the waters from the Solomon Islands to the Aleutian Islands.

Restoration: Going the Distance

The ninth life of a PBY-5A Cat.
January 2003 | By Phil Scott

In 1964, a trio of RA-5Cs had central Florida covered.

Restoration: Mach 2 Heavyweight Champion

The North American RA-5C Vigilante.
November 2002 | By Robert F. Dorr

In 1957 midshipmen launched an N3N from the Severn River in Annapolis.

In the Museum: Sailors' Delight

November 2002 | By Roger A. Mola

Images of the glider in flight (here, a CG-4 prototype) don’t capture the human drama of a CG-4 mission, as the museum’s finished display does.

A Waco's Happy Ending

How an abandoned World War II glider found love in Long Island.
September 2002 | By Joshua Stoff

Restoration: Soggy Stratoliner

Boeing 307
September 2002 | By Douglas Gantenbein

The Caudron G.4 served as a bomber and recon craft. The Museum

In the Museum: A French Treasure

July 2002 | By Roger A. Mola

An original Boeing B-29.

Restoration: Best of Seven

The Boeing B-29
May 2002 | By J. Douglas Hinton

Masters of the V-12

They're like highly specialized surgeons: there are few of them and they're in great demand.
March 2002 | By Stephan Wilkinson

D.H.89s served the Royal Air Force as trainers.

Restoration: Delightfully de Havilland

The last flying D.H.89 Dragon Rapide in the United States.
March 2002 | By Diane Tedeschi


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