Fixed Wing Aircraft
The Calculators of Calm
Just how far out of their way will airlines go to give you a smooth ride?
March 2005 |
By Willilam Triplett
Save the Mentor!
T-34 owners are the latest to prove the value of good old-fashioned American ingenuity.
January 2005 |
By Peter Garrison
Send in the Global Hawk
In combat trials, the RQ-4A unmanned reconnaissance aircraft showed intelligence analysts what it means to have eyes like a Hawk.
January 2005 |
By John Croft
Fork-tailed Devils and Flying Shoes
What does the Northrop P-61 have in common with Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne?
January 2005 |
By Mark Gatlin
Crown Jewels
What gives the restored warbirds of the Flying Heritage Collection their sparkle?
November 2004 |
By Peter Garrison
Beached Starship
Some say that Beech and Raytheon's turboprop failed because it tried too much, too soon.
September 2004 |
By Mark Huber
The Mystery of the Lost Clipper
The Civil Aeronautics Board and the FBI abandoned the case 47 years ago, but two amateur detectives are still searching for the cause of the crash of Pan Am 944.
September 2004 |
By Gregg Herken with Ken Fortenberry
50 Years of Hercules
As utilitarian as a bucket and just as plain, Lockheed's C-130 has flown almost everything to almost everywhere.
September 2004 |
By Carl Posey
Lockheed Electra 10A
The New England Air Museum discovers the power of Lockheed's 10.
September 2004 |
By Phil Scott
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
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
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
