Fixed Wing Aircraft
Flying Upside Down
Devices an aerobatic airplane uses to defy gravity--and convention.
May 2002 |
By Patricia Trenner
Shop Class Was Never Like This
The airplane builders of Mundelein High.
May 2002 |
By John Fleischman
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
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
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
