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The Bear has been hugging pylons at Reno since 1969.

The Bear Is Back

The winning-est Bearcat in air racing steps up once more to the starting gate.
November 2009 | By Preston Lerner

With highly trained engineers coming to the United States from abroad, chances are good that we’ll see more naturalized citizens in line for the Wright Trophy.

Moments and Milestones: The American Way

November 2009 | By George C. Larson, member, NAA

Tufts on the Jetwing fuselage and vertical stabilizer would reveal airflow patterns.

Oldies and Oddities: Blown Away

November 2009 | By Ken Scott

St. Onge, who shows off her Staggerwing at airshows in the Northeast, had her 1936 C17B done up in “Louise Thaden and Blanche Noyes colors” that replicate the paint scheme of the 1936 Bendix Race winner.

Sweet 17

When a Staggerwing casts its spell, it can surprise even Olive Ann Beech.
November 2009 | By James Wynbrandt

Rare Bear

Is Winning Everything?

For an air racing legend named Rare Bear, yes.
September 29, 2009 | By Diane Tedeschi

Reno Wrap-up

What was hot—and what was not—at the 2009 National Championship Air Races.
September 28, 2009 | By Linda Shiner

F-16s from the Ohio Air National Guard patrol over Iraq during Operation Northern Watch in 2002.

Over the No-Fly Zone

Patrolling over northern Iraq in 2001 felt like driving through a small town with Hell's Angels.
September 22, 2009 | By Randy Gordon

In the May 25, 1909 issue of Britain’s The Aero, a caption referred to “The ailerons or small planes” (arrows) on Samuel Cody’s British Army Aeroplane.

Oldies and Oddities: Where Do Ailerons Come From?

September 2009 | By Tom Crouch

The National Air and Space Museum

Last of its Kind

A look inside the Smithsonian's Stratoliner.
August 14, 2009 | By Paul Hoversten

Boeing’s X-48B, a 500-pound blended wing-body demonstrator with a wingspan of 21 feet, banks over California’s Mojave Desert.

Batplane

Even around other X-planes, the X-48B looks weird.
August 2009 | By Peter Garrison

Can Pete Buck adapt technology to convert a Sonex model into a practical electric airplane?

The Electric Airplane

Quiet, smooth, dependable—shouldn’t we be flying these by now?
August 2009 | By Peter Garrison

A technician employs the proverbial 10-foot pole to extract a contaminated filter from a Republic F-84. With samplers mounted, there was no room for wingtip fuel tanks.

Into the Mushroom Cloud

Most pilots would head away from a thermonuclear explosion.
August 2009 | By Mark Wolverton

Broken microcapsules leave impressions seen through a microscope after a healing agent has bled out in a fracture plane of a composite material.

How Things Work: Self-Healing Airplanes

Several technologies that could put mechanics out of work.
July 2009 | By Tom LeCompte

The boxy biplane of Belgium’s Pierre de Caters in 1909.

The Birthplaces of Aviation

It didn't all happen at Kitty Hawk.
July 2009 | By Roger A. Mola

At a 2008 motorcar and aircraft show in West Sussex, England, The Six and its pilot, Julian Firth (in white flightsuit), greet dignitaries such as Norman Turnball (left), the aircraft’s flight engineer from 1959 to 1964.

The Six

If Lockheed’s Constellation was the hare, the Douglas DC-6 was the oh-so-reliable tortoise.
July 2009 | By Kara Platoni

An upward spiral is one of Sean Tucker’s gentler maneuvers.

Tumbling with the Stars

Today’s airshow performers do it gyroscopically.
July 2009 | By Debbie Gary

Boeing B-47

The Dawn of Discipline

A B-47 pilot remembers when an airplane—and Curtis LeMay—stiffened the spine of the Strategic Air Command
July 2009 | By Walter J. Boyne

The YB-49 demonstrated that putting jet engines on an airframe designed for piston engines made the aircraft faster but not better.

Too Much, Too Soon

July 2009 | By General Robert L. Cardenas, U.S. Air Force (Ret.) As told to James P. Busha

Canadian newspapers trumpeted the glories of the Avro C102 Jetliner, which made its first flight in 1949 at Malton Airport in Toronto.

Woe Canada

The only thing that kept Canada from beating the U.S. to a jet airliner was Canada.
March 2009 | By Graham Chandler

The Eurofighter Typhoon, armed for sales combat, will take on Boeing’s F/A-18 Super Hornet.

Supersonic Sales Call

If you want a customer to spend $10 billion on your jet fighters, you gotta bust some Mach.
March 2009 | By Jorge and Karen Escalona


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