Aerospace Scientists and Engineers
The scientists and engineers behind the science, design and production of air and spacecraft
The Man Who Could See Air
Richard Whitcomb changed the shape of wings to come.
July 2002 |
By Peter Garrison
Probable Cause
It took 28 seconds for USAir Flight 427 to plummet from the sky. It took the National Transportation Safety Board five years to figure out why.
July 2002 |
By Bill Adair
The Mirror Makers
The fight is on for the chance to build the world's most advanced space telescope.
November 2001 |
By Ben Iannotta
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
Q
When the job demands ingenuity, NASA engineers whip gadgets worthy of James Bond.
May 2001 |
By Eric Adams
Particle Man
Sam Ting is on a mission: find the other half of the universe.
May 2001 |
By Andrew Lawler
The Hammer
For every airplane, there's a region of the flight envelope into which it dare not fly.
March 2001 |
By Peter Garrison
Bomb Squad
How airborne detectives collect evidence from a cloud of atomic debris.
July 2000 |
By James Schultz
Starz in the Hood
There are more stars in our celestial backyard than we once thought.
May 2000 |
By Michael Milstein
Window on the World
It's only a small pane in the International Space Station.
May 2000 |
By Leonard David
The Coldest Warriors
Tales from the corridors of an agency so secret that officially it didn't exist.
January 2000 |
By William E. Burrows
The One-Pound Problem
All the Mars Ascent Vehicle has to do is deliver 16 ounces of rocks in a container the size of a grapefruit to Martian orbit. If only it were as easy as it sounds.
November 1999 |
By Tony Reichhardt
That New Black Magic
In the early years of the cold war, enter Kelly Johnson and an clean sheet of paper--long enough to accommodate an 80-foot wingspan.
January 1999 |
By William E. Burrows
Bigfoot
Sometimes the hardest design challenge isn't getting aircraft into the air but getting them back on the ground.
March 1998 |
By John Sotham
When Ships Have Wings
The bigger they are, the better they fly. And they're made in Russia.
January 1996 |
By Craig Mellow
Auto Pilots
What has four wheels and flies? The dream of a roadable airplane continues.
January 1996 |
By John Grossman
The Burnelli Controversy
Was this designer a genius or his own worst enemy?
November 1989 |
By David Noland
