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Military, commercial and experimental vehicles designed for flight in the Earth’s atmosphere
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Miracle: A view of flight as it turns 100

Inventions seldom resemble the refined devices that evolve from them
March 2003 | By The Editors

The Original

How the 1903 Flyer got where it is today.
March 2003 | By Peter L. Jakab

The 1903 Wright Flyer

Find out why the world's first controllable airplane was a bear to control.
March 2003 | By Phaedra Hise

In 1902 the brothers took turns: When Orville flew, Wilbur launched, aided by friend Bill Tate (at right).

I Have Today Seen Wilbur Wright and his Great White Bird

The airplane debuted to rave reviews.
March 2003 | By Mary Collins

In a flash, military aircraft adopted the turbojet, and propellers were out. Favorites like the North American T-6 trainer were retired.

Defining Moments

The inventions, institutions, gadgets, and lucky breaks that have shaped the story of the airplane.
March 2003 | By Roger Bilstein

Grumman X-29

Wrong Turns

When's the last time you caught a ride in an autogiro?
March 2003 | By T.A. Heppenheimer

Jimmy Doolittle had a doctorate in aeronautical engineering.

10 Great Pilots

Machines alone could not have pushed the airplane forward.
March 2003 | By Patricia Trenner

Befitting a Paris audience, Alberto Santos-Dumont cut a dandy figure in the pilot basket of his 14-bis.

10 Milestone Flights

You wouldn't have wanted to be along on most of them.
March 2003 | By Perry Turner

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

CorsairFest

There's a lot more to the F4U than its past association with black sheep.
January 2003 | By Larry Lowe

Seafarers

Bathing beauties from the time when aircraft first crossed oceans.
January 2003 | By Illustrations by Ian Marshall

Now departing Paradise...All day long, Chalk’s amphibious Grumman Mallards shuttle tourists in and out of Paradise Island and other Bahamian destinations.

Chalk's Ocean Airways

Since 1919, this little airline has managed to keep its head above water
January 2003 | By Henry Scammell

NASA once considered using the space shuttle to carry the X-37 to orbit, but those plans changed. When the craft does go into space, it will most likely ride atop an expendable launcher.

Will the Air Force Finally Get a Spaceplane?

If Boeing's X-37 can maneuver politically as well as in space.
January 2003 | By Ben Iannotta

The X-35B lifts off the hover pit with its nozzle vectored for short-takeoffvertical-landing. To convert the engine’s operation from conventional takeoff to STOVL, the pilot moves a lever back about an inch. This opens four sets of doors behind the cockpit, allowing air to flow through the lift fan and starting the nozzle moving through its full range of travel. Simultaneously a clutch engages, transferring power from the engine to the lift fan.

Winner Take All

All the nail biting, second guessing, and sheer engineering brilliance in the battle to build the better Joint Strike Fighter.
January 2003 | By Evan Hadingham

ShinMaywa’s US-1A, cleansed of the corrosive sea after every mission, continues an ancestral line of flying boats.

Giant Amphibian

Japan has one godzilla of a seaplane.
January 2003 | By Tim Wright

Zoom climbs in the rocket-boosted NF-104 could top out at 120,000 feet in zero gravity (left).

Sky High

My climb to the top in the F-104.
November 2002 | By George J. Marrett

Outback Scramjet

A University of Queensland lab has supersonic success.
November 2002 | By Luba Vangelova

All That Remains

Old aircraft crash scenes are littered with story fragments.
November 2002 | By Howard James Stansfield

São Paulo Traffic Report

It's rotor to rotor out there.
November 2002 | By Carl A. Posey


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