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America by Air

Summer at the Smithsonian

Planning a visit to the Museum? We provide some helpful hints.
July 2012 | By Rebecca Maksel

Roy Davis

Gyroplanes Swarm in Florida

The Annual Bensen Days fly-in welcomes rotorheads.
July 2012 | By Bill Wilson

When he steps away from his astronaut duties at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, David Wolf can often be found flying aerobatic maneuvers in his Christen Eagle.

My Other Vehicle Was a Spacecraft

Now that the space shuttle has retired, astronauts are rediscovering the joys of flying airplanes.
July 2012 | By Phil Scott

Titanic’s Wireless Operators: The Original Texters

Text messaging, from 1912 to 2012.
May 14, 2012 | By Rebecca Maksel

Second Life for Hangar One

The Moffett Field landmark may yet house aircraft again.
May 2012 | By Kara Platoni

A soldier stands guard in front of the Unha-3 rocket sitting on a launch pad at the West Sea Satellite Launch Site, during a guided media tour by North Korean authorities on April 8, 2012.

How did North Korea build its own rocket?

April 12, 2012 | By Paul Hoversten

How are airline pilots tested for mental health?

March 28, 2012 | By Paul Hoversten

Sikorsky Wants to Pick Your Brain

AND the company will pay you for the privilege.
March 09, 2012 | By Pat Trenner

021024-N-4374S-031 Central Command Area of Responsibility (AOR) Oct. 24, 2002 - A Sailor assigned to the "World Watchers� of Fleet Air Recon Squadron One (VQ-1) sprays-down the propeller on a P-3 Orion with a water hose during an aircraft wash on the flight line. VQ-1 is home ported at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Wash., and is currently on deployment to the Middle East in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). U.S. Navy photo by Photographer�s Mate 2nd Class Michael Sandberg. (RELEASED)

Are More Propeller Blades Better?

February 27, 2012 | By Paul Hoversten

Hardest to Fly?

Piloting an Apache helicopter almost always meant both hands and feet doing four different things at once.
February 03, 2012 | By Rebecca Maksel

High-Speed Helicopters Come of Age

By adding a little push, compound helicopters push the speed limit up to 300 mph.
January 30, 2012 | By George Larson

Popular Mechanics

The Flying Winnebago

For some reason the heli-camper never really caught on.
January 2012 | By James R. Chiles

Why Do Helicopter Pilots Sit in the Right Seat?

November 16, 2011 | By Paul Hoversten

At the 2002 Nellis Air Show near Las Vegas, a Sabre heads up an A team in a USAF Heritage Flight: (from left) P-51 Mustang, P-47 Thunderbolt, F-15 Eagle, P-38 Lightning, and TF-51.

Could You Fly a Sabre?

The challenge of handling a 1950s MiG killer.
November 2011 | By Paul Hoversten

Bush flying has unique challenges. This Quest Kodiak gets a little extra thrust on takeoff from the slope of a dirt airstrip carved out of a hill in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Rough Riders

Five bushplanes and the places only they can fly.
November 2011 | By Tom LeCompte

Airman George Johnson (in a T-33 in late 1955) spent hundreds of hours maintaining Sabrejets and much less time flying one.

Mind If I Borrow It?

The day an Air Force mechanic commandeered a North American F-86.
November 2011 | By Paul D. Mather

In 2004, salvagers pulled a Bell P-39 from a Siberian lake, where 60 years earlier pilot Ivan Baranovsky had crash-landed it.

Lieutenant Ivan Baranovsky’s P-39

An airacobra's journey to the eastern front...and back.
September 2011 | By Tim Wright

When seven men got stuck in a grim patch of Greenland in 1948, the Air Force sent a B-17 to rescue them, but it got mired in soft snow (top of montage), only worsening the predicament. The Air Force kept the men from starving by parachuting food and stove

Stranded

Four aircraft, 12 airmen, 25 days, 40 below zero, in the middle of nowhere.
September 2011 | By Edward Farmer

In his flight jacket with 17th Bomb Group patch, Dick Cole looks ready to fly Panchito, a restored B-25J, at a Raider gathering in Punta Gorda, Florida, last March.

The Raiders Remember

In an annual ceremony, the last of the Doolittle Raiders recall their part in victory over Japan.
September 2011 | By Paul Hoversten


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