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20th Century Aviation

Aviation innovations, milestones and developments from 1901-2000
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Alaska and the Airplane

For a century, each has shaped the other.
June 2013 | By Julie Decker and Jeremy Kinney

In 1938, these TWA stewardesses were honored for each having completed a quarter-million miles or more of flying. � Delta Air Transport Heritage Museum

The Golden Age of Flight Attendants

A new book documents the evolution of stewardesses from registered nurses to starlets in the sky.
September 18, 2012 | By Bruce McAllister and Stephan Wilkinson

Wiseman-Cooke Aircraft hanging in the Postal Museum.; In early 1912; the second Wiseman airplane was acquired by Weldon B. Cooke; a pilot who had been making a name for himself in recent months flying another airplane in the NASM collection; the Maupin-Lanteri Black Diamond. The second Wiseman airplane is now designated by NASM as the "Wiseman-Cooke aircraft" because both individuals were intimately associated with its history.

One-and-Onlies: The Complete List

All the Smithsonian’s one-of-a-kind aircraft
August 14, 2012 | By Patricia Trenner

Cancelled: Vertical Flyer

The Coléoptère was one weird-looking aircraft.
July 2012 | By Jeremy Davis

The Designing Life

This year’s National Air and Space Museum lifetime achievement award winner, Burt Rutan, talks about music, golf and his favorite chair.
March 2012 | By Perry Turner

The Witness

Want to set a record-breaking flight? You’ll need an observer from the National Aeronautic Association.
January 2012 | By Rebecca Maksel

Proteus Rutans 31st airplane

Design by Rutan

A retrospective of Burt Rutan's high-performance art.
January 2012 | By The Editors

The First Across the Continent

A 100th anniversary remembrance of Cal Rodgers and the Vin Fiz.
September 2011 | By Charles Wiggin, As Told To Howard Eisenberg

When seven men got stuck in a grim patch of Greenland in 1948, the Air Force sent a B-17 to rescue them, but it got mired in soft snow (top of montage), only worsening the predicament. The Air Force kept the men from starving by parachuting food and stove

Stranded

Four aircraft, 12 airmen, 25 days, 40 below zero, in the middle of nowhere.
September 2011 | By Edward Farmer

Kauffeld and Bruce Tully discuss a model that Tully built in his high school shop class.

Above and Beyond: Tully’s Astronarium

A high-schooler champions science in America.
September 2011 | By Robert Yowell

A formation of Westland Wapitis flies over the mountainous landscape of the North West Frontier Province In 1933 a Wapiti became the first airplane to fly over Mt Everest

The Bombing of Waziristan

In this rugged hiding place, outlaws like Osama bin Laden are rarely run to ground. The British learned that lesson in 1939.
July 2011 | By Graham Chandler

A 1921 Robert Spence photo of Venice Pier.

Oldies and Oddities:He Shot California

November 2010 | By Vickey Kalambakal

Thousands watched the China Clipper as it set off on the first trans-Pacific airmail flight on November 22, 1935.

Moments and Milestones: Birth of the Clippers

November 2010 | By George C. Larson, Member, NAA

The DC-X backs into its parking spot at White Sands in September 1993.

Black Day at White Sands

What goes up, must come down. In the Delta Clipper's case, really hard.
August 2010 | By Preston Lerner

Viewport: Building a Wall of Support

July 2010 | By J.R. Dailey

The wood paneled cockpit of Doug Parsons’ YKC.

The Classic Wagon

Why families still travel in Wacos.
June 2010 | By John Fleischman

Cessna’s Citation X hasn’t played as many roles as its propeller-driven ancestors, but the business jet is speedier than all the rest.

Then and Now: Business Models

May 2010 | By Roger A. Mola

In the 1970s, Hoover’s demos meant sales for North American Rockwell’s business craft.

Simply the Best

Is there an airshow fan alive who doesn't know the legend riding beneath that hat?
May 2010 | By Debbie Gary

An F/A-18 pilot educates visitors at the 2009 New Orleans airshow

Let the Shows Begin!

What's hot on this summer's airshow circuit.
May 2010 | By The Editors

Bob Hope

Thanks For the Memories

Air crews recall their service as roadies for Bob Hope's USO show.
January 2010 | By Rebecca Maksel


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