Propeller Aircraft
Defining Moments
The inventions, institutions, gadgets, and lucky breaks that have shaped the story of the airplane.
March 2003 |
By Roger Bilstein
In Search of the Real Wright Flyer
Building a replica of the first airplane requires a certain resourcefulness. Anybody got any horsehide glue?
January 2003 |
By Phaedra Hise
CorsairFest
There's a lot more to the F4U than its past association with black sheep.
January 2003 |
By Larry Lowe
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
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
The Reunion
A fighter pilot, his escort, and one hell of a coincidence.
September 2001 |
By John Fleischman
Restoration: Homecoming
Handley Page Halifax under restoration in Canada.
July 2001 |
By J. Douglas Hinton
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
