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Military, commercial and experimental vehicles designed for flight in the Earth’s atmosphere
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The U.K.-based Premium Aircraft Interiors Group offers rear-facing seats strictly for economic reasons, and makes no claims about safety.

Are aft-facing airplane seats safer?

They may well be. But don't look for them anytime soon.
October 26, 2009 | By Michael Klesius

The First Parachute Jump

On this day in 1797, André-Jacques Garnerin made the first high-altitude jump using a parachute, over Parc Monceau in Paris. Garnerin's contraption—a basket suspended from a silk parachute—was cut loose from a balloon at an altitude of 2,000 feet. An eyewitness recalled: He made a dreadful lurch i...
October 22, 2009 | By Tony Reichhardt

Rare Bear

Is Winning Everything?

For an air racing legend named Rare Bear, yes.
September 29, 2009 | By Diane Tedeschi

Reno Wrap-up

What was hot—and what was not—at the 2009 National Championship Air Races.
September 28, 2009 | By Linda Shiner

Airliners carry their own portable atmosphere. How much can they afford to lose?

What happens if an airliner suddenly loses cabin pressure?

Let's just say it's not like it is in the movies.
September 24, 2009 | By Rebecca Maksel

F-16s from the Ohio Air National Guard patrol over Iraq during Operation Northern Watch in 2002.

Over the No-Fly Zone

Patrolling over northern Iraq in 2001 felt like driving through a small town with Hell's Angels.
September 22, 2009 | By Randy Gordon

First Around the World

For balloonists Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones, the end of one journey marked the beginning of another.
September 17, 2009 | By Linda Shiner

The Boeing 307 Stratoliner was the first airliner able to soar above the storms, thanks to a new cabin pressurization system.

Above It All

It took a maze of valves and venturis—and a trio of tycoons—to whisk passengers into the stratosphere.
September 2009 | By Nick D'Alto

Inventions large and small have combined over the years to create the modern experience of air travel. And you don’t have to be a frequent flier to know that today’s airliner is still a work in progress: What you see today may not be there tomorrow.

Anatomy of an Airliner

Our maxim: The airlines giveth, and the airlines taketh away.
September 2009 | By The Editors

Before the SpeedHawk, Piasecki studied how Cobras (pictured) and Apaches would fly with ducted propellers.

Hot-Rod Helicopters

There’s just no way to add 100 mph to the speed of a helicopter. Or is there?
September 2009 | By James R. Chiles

At Northrop Grumman’s model shop in El Segundo, California, Gary Miley applies gel to form a mold he will use to create a model blank.

Martial Arts

Memo to bad guys: Wanna know what U.S. warplanes you’ll tangle with in the future? Visit an aerospace model shop.
September 2009 | By Chad Slattery

The BA609.

Tiltrotors for the Rest of Us

An Osprey for commuters? Bring it on. Can we get a quiet car too?
September 2009 | By Mark Wolverton

If engineers can corral liquid hydrogen, reshape pressure waves, and make fuel from algae, future airline passengers will travel around the world at hypersonic speeds in strange-looking aircraft.

The Perfect Airplane

Fast, green, and quiet. Come on, brainiacs, you can do it.
September 2009 | By Ed Regis

In the May 25, 1909 issue of Britain’s The Aero, a caption referred to “The ailerons or small planes” (arrows) on Samuel Cody’s British Army Aeroplane.

Oldies and Oddities: Where Do Ailerons Come From?

September 2009 | By Tom Crouch

AmSafe

Is bracing for impact really helpful in an airline crash?

Or is it just meant to make us feel like we're doing something?
August 26, 2009 | By Rebecca Maksel

The National Air and Space Museum

Last of its Kind

A look inside the Smithsonian's Stratoliner.
August 14, 2009 | By Paul Hoversten

Boeing’s X-48B, a 500-pound blended wing-body demonstrator with a wingspan of 21 feet, banks over California’s Mojave Desert.

Batplane

Even around other X-planes, the X-48B looks weird.
August 2009 | By Peter Garrison

Can Pete Buck adapt technology to convert a Sonex model into a practical electric airplane?

The Electric Airplane

Quiet, smooth, dependable—shouldn’t we be flying these by now?
August 2009 | By Peter Garrison

A technician employs the proverbial 10-foot pole to extract a contaminated filter from a Republic F-84. With samplers mounted, there was no room for wingtip fuel tanks.

Into the Mushroom Cloud

Most pilots would head away from a thermonuclear explosion.
August 2009 | By Mark Wolverton

A deformed machine gun from the Nakajima Ki-27 spoke volumes to the author (center).

Above and Beyond: Recovery: Bataan

August 2009 | By Ralph Wetterhahn


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