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Pilot Max Miller and Air Mail Service superintendent Benjamin Lipsner (right) before Miller

The Great Race

When the Air Mail Service decided to establish a route between New York City and Chicago, two pilots competed to fly it first.
September 18, 2008 | By Rebecca Maksel

1908: The Year the Airplane Went Public

Five years after Kitty Hawk, the Wrights finally showed the world their invention.
August 29, 2008 | By Tom D. Crouch

Feng and assistants with the Feng Ru 2 in Guangdong, China

The Father of Chinese Aviation

Feng Ru made history on the California coast, then introduced airplanes to his native land.
August 13, 2008 | By Rebecca Maksel

Spirit of New China

China’s First Lady of Flight

In an era when Chinese women weren’t allowed to drive cars, Lee Ya-Ching flew the globe.
July 24, 2008 | By Rebecca Maksel

Habersetzer operates out of Marabou Landing, a lodge about 230 miles southwest of Anchorage.

School of Hard Rocks

Loni Habersetzer teaches pilots how to land on the harshest terrain.
May 2008 | By Tom LeCompte

A & S Interview: Dick Anderegg

A talk with the Air Force historian.
May 2008 | By Patricia Trenner

French ace Adolphe Pegoud

What does it take to become an "ace"?

And has anyone ever been stripped of that status?
April 07, 2008 | By Rebecca Maksel

A historically accurate reproduction of the Wright Model B, built by the Wright Experience, is on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.

Premier Performer

For their first airshows, the Wright exhibition team relied on the Model B.
March 19, 2008 | By Paul Glenshaw

Cromwell Dixon in his Curtiss biplane at the Helena fairgounds on September 30, 1911.

Across the Divide in 1911

A new biography details the exploits of teenage aviation pioneer Cromwell Dixon.
March 01, 2008 | By Tom Harpole

Curtiss on Curtiss

The aviation pioneer chronicled his life and work in a once rare (but now freely downloadable) 1912 book.
March 01, 2008 | By airspacemag.com

Charlie Kulp, 82, flew this Piper Cub (and wore those overalls) in more than 800 performances since 1973.

Goodbye, Silas Hicks

Charlie Kulp bids farewell to his alter ego, the "Flying Farmer."
March 01, 2008 | By Linda Shiner

Would you have spotted it? The writer and the CAP officers with him on his search flight kept missing this old aircraft wreck, one of six uncovered in the course of the Fossett search. The Nevada landscape is cruelly good at concealing wrecks.

The Search for Steve Fossett

One tough job for the U.S. Civil Air Patrol.
March 2008 | By Michael Behar

When the twin-engine America proved underpowered, Curtiss added a third engine. It worked on Keuka Lake, but fuel consumption proved too high for an Atlantic crossing.

America the Cruisable

The seaplane Glenn Curtiss designed in 1914 may have had trouble on the ocean, but its reproduction is delighting a whole town on a lake.
March 2008 | By James Wynbrandt

The three X-15s shared a hangar with lifting bodies (first three on left) at Edwards Air Force Base during the golden age of flight research.

The Real X-Men

Life came at you fast when you flew the X-15.
November 2007 | By Peter Garrison

Sport pilots who choose to build the SeaRey kitplane can take off from and set down on both land and water.

20 Hours to Solo

Will a new pilot category restore the glory days of general aviation?
September 2007 | By Mark Huber

Airplanes, not automobiles, cruised the Malecon on parade day in 1953 to mark the 40th anniversary of Parla

The Country Where Nobody Flies

Did Cuba abandon its private pilots or did they abandon Cuba?
August 2007 | By Rafael Lima

William Holloman during his World War II flying days.

Tuskegee Memories

This World War II veteran loved flying all airplanes, but especially the Mustang.
August 2007 | By Diane Tedeschi

Earhart poses in a Pitcairn PCA-2 Autogiro in 1931.

Think You Know Amelia?

Take our Earhart quiz and find out.
July 2007 | By airspacemag.com

Amercan idol: Earhart first crossed the Atlantic in 1928, as a passenger. Four years later, she flew solo from Newfoundland to Ireland in a Lockheed Vega. Here, the beaming villagers of Culmore, North Ireland, pay homage to the rising star.

An American Obsession

When she vanished-70 years ago this July-she was as big a star as Greta Garbo. Is that why some are still driven to solve the mystery of Amelia Earhart?
July 2007 | By Paul Hoversten

James Robbins (front row, right) poses with some of his shipmates. Behind him are Lopez (to the left) and Hendersin (to the right).

Buried at the Bottom of the World

When people die serving their country, to what lengths must a government go to recover the bodies?
July 2007 | By Carl Hoffman


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