Aircraft
Military, commercial and experimental vehicles designed for flight in the Earth’s atmosphere
How Things Work: Flying Upside Down
The tricks that keep the engine from knowing it’s not right side up.
May 2002 |
By Patricia Trenner
Restoration: Delightfully de Havilland
The last flying D.H.89 Dragon Rapide in the United States.
March 2002 |
By Diane Tedeschi
“This Is Only a Test”
Fifty years ago, cold-war games halted all civilian air traffic—long before September 11 did the same.
March 2002 |
By Roger A. Mola
The Plane With No Name
The F-111: In Australia, an airplane for all seasons.
March 2002 |
By William Triplett
Young Turks
The Turkish Air Demo team is winning friends at home with its seven Northrop F-5s.
January 2002 |
By Roger A. Mola
Special Report: Aftermath
Are government and industry doing enough to make the sky secure?
January 2002 |
By Lester A. Reingold
Ready, Set, Flap!
Birds do it, bees do it. Can two weird aircraft make aviation history doing it?
January 2002 |
By Graham Chandler
How Things Work: Cabin Pressure
Why you remain conscious at 30,000 feet.
January 2002 |
By George C. Larson
Science Floats
What a satellite can do, balloons can do cheaper.
January 2002 |
By T. A. Heppenheimer
Air Combat U
At the USAF Fighter Weapons School in 1957, the instructors were mean, but the aircraft were meaner.
January 2002 |
By Robert A. Hanson
Flights & Fancy: When Pigs Fly
An ingenious new use for an old Cessna.
January 2002 |
By Richard Sassaman
All and Nothing
After Pearl Harbor, the Japanese planned to strike the United States with aircraft borne by giant submarines. If it worked, the Atlantic fleet would be trapped.
November 2001 |
By Thomas S. Momiyama
Restoration: Unearthing a Diamond
The Diamond is the only one of its kind ever built.
November 2001 |
By Becki Bell
The Avengers
They torpedoed enemy ships during World War II. Now they fight fire.
November 2001 |
By Marshall Lumsden
Unbreakable
World War II aircraft that were shot to hell—and came back.
November 2001 |
By Cory Graff
