20th Century Aviation
Aviation innovations, milestones and developments from 1901-2000A Flight Along America's Highway
One man’s mid-century portrait of the United States—from 1,500 feet.
January 2000 |
By John Fleischman
Extreme Machine
The U.S. Marine Corps' sword gets a brand-new edge.
November 1998 |
By George C. Larson
Aiming for Arkalyk
Why cosmonauts returning from space face a chilly reception.
September 1998 |
By Craig Mellow
A Sudden Loss of Altitude
Meet the MOL-men. Prepared to make space history, these military pilots instead became a footnote to it.
July 1998 |
By Carl Posey
Bomberville
In which a tiny air force has an impact far greater than its numbers suggest.
March 1998 |
By Lance Thompson
The Making of Air Force One
Of course you realize nothing like this could ever happen.
August 1997 |
By George C. Larson
The Edwards Diaries
Test pilot Glen Edwards kept book on the Flying Wing. Now we know what he thought of the airplane he died in.
July 1997 |
By Daniel Ford
Too Ugly to Print in a Magazine
Four aircraft so ugly they could only be published on the web...
June 1997 |
By Air & Space staff
The Last of the Mohawks
Grumman's triple-tail, bug-eyed, heat-seeking camera platform.
March 1997 |
By John Sotham
H.M.S. Moon Rocket
In the 1930s, Arthur C. Clarke and friends designed their own lunar mission.
March 1997 |
By Tony Reichhardt
Auto Pilots
What has four wheels and flies? The dream of a roadable airplane continues.
January 1996 |
By John Grossman
The Road Show
Thirty years ago, astronauts were an exotic species. Wherever they appeared, crowds went wild.
January 1996 |
By Brian Duff
The Big Creek Missile Agency
The short story that became the movie October Sky.
March 1995 |
By Homer H. Hickam Jr.
The Burnelli Controversy
Was this designer a genius or his own worst enemy?
November 1989 |
By David Noland
