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The twin-engine F-22A in flight.

How Things Work: Thrust Vectoring

In a tight spot, you need zoom to maneuver.
July 2008 | By Jim Mathews

A gaggle of Hawkeyes operating out of the Naval Air Facility in Atsugi, Japan, takes to the air during a training mission.

Detect and Direct

The Navy's newest Hawkeye gets closer to the fight.
July 2008 | By Preston Lerner

Jeff Stone (beside the plane) prepares to take his grandmother, Molly MacNeil Stone, for her first airplane ride in a Piper J-3

It's Never Too Late to Take That First Flight

My grandmother loved her first and only airplane ride.
June 2008 | By Hilliard Stone

The swirling wing vortex

Is the Boeing 757 a threat to other airliners?

An unusual wake vortex has landed this airliner in a class by itself.
May 27, 2008 | By Rebecca Maksel

Birth of the Kulbit

Not just maneuverability. Supermaneuverability.
May 21, 2008 | By Roger Mola

The Junkers J-13 had an enclosed cabin, all-metal structure, and a high degree of streamlining.

Airplanes that Transformed Aviation

Sixteen historic designs that changed the game.
May 2008 | By Richard P. Hallion

A scene from the Army Signal Corps film "Aviation Training in the United States," shot in 1917-1918.

How They Trained

Rare archival footage shows Army pilots learning to fly Jennies in 1917.
May 05, 2008 | By Phillip W. Stewart

In a typical two-ship formation, B-1Bs fly a 1998 training mission near Meteor Crater in Arizona, one of the few holes in the ground bigger than a B-1 could make.

The Bone is Back

Too trouble-prone for nuclear alert and sidelined in the first Gulf War, the B-1 is today the busiest bomber in the fleet.
May 2008 | By David Noland

The last U.S. F-4s were retired in 1996 (a U.S. Air Force RF-4C during the Vietnam War); about 800 still fly worldwide.

Moments & Milestones: The Phantom at 50

Producted in Cooperation with the National Aeronautic Association.
May 2008 | By George C. Larson

A historically accurate reproduction of the Wright Model B, built by the Wright Experience, is on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.

Premier Performer

For their first airshows, the Wright exhibition team relied on the Model B.
March 19, 2008 | By Paul Glenshaw

A Hawker Hurricane Mark IIC is on permanent display at the National Air and Space Museum

Hurricane Walkaround

Aviation historian Ron Dick takes a closer look at an old warbird.
March 01, 2008 | By Diane Tedeschi

Thanks to the wonders of computer animation, Gerry Merrill

Who Says a Jet Can't Be Cheap?

Gerry Merrill says he can build you one for $150,000.
March 2008 | By David Noland

This colorful Bede BD-J5 takes a break from the action at an airshow in Sion, Switzerland in June 1989.

The Elusive Dream

The Minijet, the Weejet, and other good ideas that went nowhere.
March 01, 2008 | By David Noland

The Quiet One had a forward-looking infrared (FLIR) camera on its belly that helped the pilots navigate at night.

Air America's Black Helicopter

The secret aircraft that helped the CIA tap phones in North Vietnam.
March 2008 | By James R. Chiles

When the twin-engine America proved underpowered, Curtiss added a third engine. It worked on Keuka Lake, but fuel consumption proved too high for an Atlantic crossing.

America the Cruisable

The seaplane Glenn Curtiss designed in 1914 may have had trouble on the ocean, but its reproduction is delighting a whole town on a lake.
March 2008 | By James Wynbrandt

Snow Bird

Moments & Milestones: The Unknown Aeronaut

March 2008 | By George C. Larson, Member, NAA

Carol Sugars and Doug Roodante in their green machine.

Fly Canola!

Doug Rodante plans to fly his L-29 cross-country using cooking oil for fuel.
February 25, 2008 | By Roger Mola

Pilots of the Sopwith Camel complained that the engine, guns, fuel tank, and pilot were clustered too close. They didn

What the Red Baron Never Knew

Computer analysis of World War I aircraft shows precisely why some were deadly and others, death traps.
January 2008 | By Peter Garrison

A Short (Very Short) History of the F-19

What airplane came in a little box and never flew?
January 2008 | By Patricia Trenner

Photographs from Concorde reprinted with permission from Zenith Press.

Sleeping Beauty

A last, longing look at the Concorde.
January 2008 | By The editors


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