Fixed Wing Aircraft
How Things Work: Winglets
You know those things on the wingtips of airliners that stick straight up? The first in a new series is all about why you're seeing more of them.
September 2001 |
By George Larson
Restoration: Homecoming
Handley Page Halifax under restoration in Canada.
July 2001 |
By J. Douglas Hinton
The Detroit Airlift
This hard-working band of pilots and fleet of weary airplanes keep the U.S. auto industry rolling along.
July 2001 |
By Mark Huber
The Fastest Show on Earth
How two Lockheed F-104 Starfighters became airshow stars.
May 2001 |
By Carl Hoffman
Hill Climb
Why General Electric put an airplane engine on a truck and drove it to the top of Pikes Peak.
May 2001 |
By Donald Sherman
Predator: First Watch
Lesson learned: never send a man to do a machine's job.
May 2001 |
By Linda Shiner
Fishing for Saint-Ex
There's something down there. And it may be Antoine De Saint-Exupéry's P-38.
May 2001 |
By Joseph Harriss
The Hammer
For every airplane, there's a region of the flight envelope into which it dare not fly.
March 2001 |
By Peter Garrison
Restoration: Desperate Journey
A Junkers Ju 88 is pulled from a Norwegian lake.
March 2001 |
By Douglas Hinton
Made in the U.S.S.R.
Of course they copied it. The two airplanes could have been twins. But was the Soviets' Tu-4 truly an exact duplicate of the Boeing B-29?
March 2001 |
By Von Hardesty
