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Modern Aviation

An era from 1991 to the present marked by achievements in air and space flight, including unmanned aerial vehicles and the International Space Station
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Heathrow

475,000 Takeoffs and Landings a Year

The Summer Games will bring 4,000 additional aircraft to London's airports. Find out what it takes to keep Heathrow running smoothly on a normal day.
January 2007 | By Michael Milstein

The Masters of Disaster ratcheted up the drama with a jet-powered Waco UPF-7 biplane and a Chevy truck.

Extreme Airshow

A fellow performer remembers the act that pushed too far.
January 2007 | By Debbie Gary

Steam-powered catapults, expensive and difficult to maintain, are operating near their limits and will not be able to accommodate heavier aircraft planned for the future.

How Things Work: Electromagnetic Catapults

From zero to 150 in less than a second.
January 2007 | By Tim Wright

NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems

Martian Gushers

Claims of active flows on Mars are remarkable, but do they hold water?
January 2007 | By Bob Craddock

Global Postioning System satellites provide lcoations while ADS-B-equipped aircraft share flight information. Communications satellites (not shown) can link air traffic control stations.

How Things Work: Aircraft Identification

A digital communications system could put the control tower in the cockpit.
November 2006 | By Lester A. Reingold

Tough under pressure: Space station flight director Mark Ferring at his console during last year

The Ground

Astronauts get the glory, but flight directors run the show.
November 2006 | By Michael Behar

The first three paying astronauts (left to right, Greg Olsen, Mark Shuttleworth, and Dennis Tito) found that comfort was not guaranteed with their tickets. Enduring the rigors of spaceflight that professionals do was yet another price to pay.

Space Trippers

Did the first paying guests aboard the international space station get their $20 million worth?
November 2006 | By Craig Mellow

The X-35A, built to validate propulsion and flying qualities for the Joint Strike Fighter, takes flight in October 2000.

Weight Watchers

How a team of engineers and a crash diet saved the Joint Strike Fighter.
November 2006 | By Joe Pappalardo

A prototype of NASA

The Not-So-Big Dig

With the equivalent power of an electric can opener, engineers try to do more than scratch the Martian surface.
November 2006 | By Tom Harpole

X-35B short-takeoff and vertical-landing (STOVL) aircraft displayed at the National Air and Space Museum

The X-35 on Display

The fighter of the future comes to the Hazy Center.
November 2006 | By airspacemag.com

Worden takes the controls of a PT-17 "Kaydet" Stearman biplane during the Collings Foundation Wings of Freedom 2006 tour.

A & S Interview: Pete Worden

The director of NASA's Ames Research Center talks about piloting a Stearman and settling the moon.
November 2006 | By Paul Hoversten

Starship on a Chip

Big distance, tiny spacecraft.
November 2006 | By Tony Reichhardt

An early plastic mockup of the Nano Air Vehicle is about the size and shape of a maple seed.

Tomorrow's Spy Plane

A Nano Air Vehicle based on a maple seed.
November 2006 | By Tony Reichhardt

AAU CubeSat

How small can satellites get and still be functional?

From Nanosats to Femtosats.
September 01, 2006 | By Joe Pappalardo

The powdery lunar soil was great for making footprints, but was a problem for astronauts like Charlie Duke, shown here during the Apollo 16 mission in 1972. It got in their eyes and throats, and clung stubbornly to every surface.

Stronger Than Dirt

Lunar explorers will have to battle an insidious enemy—dust.
September 2006 | By Trudy E. Bell

Orbital platforms can bolster or challenge global climate change theories. Satellites have confirmed a 500,000- square-mile reduction of Arctic Sea ice since 1979.

Keep Watching the Ice

Meet the satellites bringing data to the discussion of global warming
September 2006 | By Ben Iannotta

Slight tweaks to SMART-1

Moonwhackers

Europe's SMART-1 is the first of several lunar crashes on the drawing board.
September 2006 | By Tony Reichhardt

A KC-135 Stratotanker refuels an F-16 Fighting Falcon in the skies over New Mexico. (DoD photo by Senior Airman Jeffrey Allen, USAF)

Gas Guzzlers

The Air Force looks for economy at the pump.
September 2006 | By Mike Harbour

Ballons may someday collect samples from the surface of Saturn

Floaters

Mars, Venus, Titan - wherever there's air, we can explore by balloon.
July 2006 | By Joe Pappalardo

Superduperjumbo

Double the size of an Airbus A380? No problem, aerodynamicists say.
July 2006 | By Michael Milstein


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