Aircraft
Military, commercial and experimental vehicles designed for flight in the Earth’s atmosphere
The 30 Billion Dollar Man
Seddik Belyamani wrote the book on selling passenger jets.
July 2004 |
By Bill Sweetman
The Hotrod Squad
There's hardly a combat mission that the A-4 Skyhawk hasn't flown.
July 2004 |
By Graham Chandler
Safer Fuel Tanks
Once airliners implement this pending FAA rule, a spark will no longer become a flame.
July 2004 |
By Damond Benningfield
Origin of the Species
We want speed! We want vertical lift! The Bell XV-3 Tilt-rotor was the first to satisfy all aeronautical tastes.
July 2004 |
By Jay Miller
First Church of Combustion
Never operate your airplane engine lean of peak exhaust gas temperature. These guys aren't buyin' it.
July 2004 |
By George C. Larson
All Guts, No Glory
What they lacked in strength, World War II escort carriers made up in numbers...and the perseverance of their crews.
July 2004 |
By James L. Noles, Jr
Airshow Lite
The smaller the airshow, the closer you get to the airplanes and pilots. (And the better the food.)
May 2004 |
By Patricia Trenner
Supporting Cast
In which we survey the variety of objects to which a jet engine can be affixed.
May 2004 |
By Roger A. Mola
I Got Shot Down
Seven airmen talk about the event none wants to experience.
May 2004 |
By Phil Scott
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
Night Stalkers
U.S. soldiers in Vietnam heard rumors of ghosts; the Viet Cong chalked it up to bad luck.
May 2004 |
By Roger Warner
The People and Planes of Friday Harbor
Time and tide wait for no man, but they seem to linger a little around the flying paradise of the San Juan Islands.
May 2004 |
By Tom Harpole
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
The Need for Speed
Everything is in place for the development of a supersonic business jet-except U.S. Federal Aviation Regulations.
March 2004 |
By Ron Swanada
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
French Lessons
With their own country occupied by Germany, French air cadets came to Alabama to learn to fly. Vive la Dixie!
March 2004 |
By Janelle Dupont
Electro- mechanical Deicing
Ice kills. That's why engineers continue to invent new ways to keep it off airplane wings.
March 2004 |
By Tim Wright
Australian Racing Moths
In the Great Australian Tiger Moth Race, it's not whether you win or lose, but whether you can stand that damned uncomfortable cockpit long enough to even finish.
March 2004 |
By Derek Grzelewski
My Ride on the Concorde
A museum curator goes along for one last transatlantic voyage.
March 2004 |
By Robert van der Linden
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
