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Aerospace Scientists and Engineers

The scientists and engineers behind the science, design and production of air and spacecraft
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The Mizar at Oxnard Airport in August 1973.

Oldies and Oddities: A Different Kind of Hybrid

July 2010 | By Peter Garrison

A crew member filmed cloud behavior.

Climate Control

Irving Langmuir tried to change the world one storm at a time.
July 2010 | By Sam Kean

A&S Interview: Ray Puffer

The former Air Force historian asks, "Can anyone dispute that I had the most interesting job in the entire Air Force?"
May 2010 | By Perry Turner

Frank Cepollina with a tool for holding fasteners.

Mr. Fix-It

Frank Cepollina takes repair calls to new heights.
May 2010 | By Robert Zimmerman

Kelly Johnson

Head Skunk

Kelly Johnson was a giant in aircraft design. On the 100th anniversary of his birth, we find out how his legend grew.
March 2010 | By Peter Garrison

A&S Interview: Joe Chappell

Flight Engineer for Air Force One.
March 2010 | By Christopher Saccoccia

Cosmonauts (from right) Konstantin Feoktistov, Boris Yegorov, and Vladimir Komarov head to the launch pad for their Voskhod 1 flight, October 12, 1964.

Feoktistov's Starship

The pioneering cosmonaut who dreamed of interstellar flight.
December 18, 2009 | By Tony Reichhardt

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

A typical Alaskan sky, photographed from Eielson Air Force Base, 25 miles southeast of Fairbanks, displays auroral structures and motions that scientists still find mystifying.

The Shining

What we still have to learn about the Northern Lights.
November 2009 | By Tim Wright

Prairie Wind

In Nowheresville, Nebraska, the Air Force learned a thing or two about turbulence.
November 2009 | By Dave Manoucheri

“Little Joe” capsules were the precursors of Alan Shepard’s Mercury spacecraft.

How the Spaceship Got Its Shape

In the 1950s Harvey Allen solved the problem of atmospheric entry. But first he had to convince his colleagues.
November 2009 | By Andrew Chaikin

A cloaking device is made of copper rings, each surrounded by 10 layers of meta-material.

Now You See It, Now You Don’t

Blinding us with science: the next generation of stealth.
November 2009 | By Damond Benningfield

Dust devils like this one form frequently at Eldorado Valley.

Devils’ Advocates

Some people go to Las Vegas to gamble, others to learn about Mars.
September 2009 | By Tony Reichhardt

The Boeing X-48C blended wing-body, the last model tested in the full-scale tunnel, is shown on August 31, 2009. After its last day, September 4, engineers began dismantling the model, as NASA made plans to move forward with the demolition of the tunnel beginning in early 2010.

Last Breath

As NASA prepares to shut down a historic wind tunnel in Virginia, some hope for a stay of execution.
September 10, 2009 | By Michael Klesius

Designers (from left) Tom Hudspeth, Harold Rosen, and Don Williams, holding a tube for amplifying radio frequency signals, surround the world’s first geosynchronous satellite, Syncom.

Spin Doctors

For that satellite dish on your roof and the phone calls you make to Japan, you can thank Harold Rosen.
September 2009 | By Guy Gugliotta

The F-14 was the first fighter to rely on a digital computer to optimize performance. Its microprocessor adjusted its wing sweep.

The Road to the Future… Is Paved With Good Inventions

We bring you 10 great ideas that made flying safer, easier, or just a whole lot more fun.
September 2009 | By The Editors

One of the nearest-term ideas for future space travel: a nuclear thermal rocket that could get to Mars in 30 days.

Mars, and Step on It

When it’s not the journey but the destination that counts.
September 2009 | By Michael Klesius

Today’s state-of-the-art in imaging planets around other stars: combined Hubble telescope pictures (taken years apart) show a world three times as massive as Jupiter circling the star Fomalhaut.

Block That Star!

How can we find other Earths if their suns keep blinding us?
September 2009 | By Tony Reichhardt

If engineers can corral liquid hydrogen, reshape pressure waves, and make fuel from algae, future airline passengers will travel around the world at hypersonic speeds in strange-looking aircraft.

The Perfect Airplane

Fast, green, and quiet. Come on, brainiacs, you can do it.
September 2009 | By Ed Regis


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