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Aviation innovations, milestones and developments from the 18th through the 21st century
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787 composite airframe

Inside Boeing’s 787 Factory

The Dreamliner’s quiet revolution.
July 2012 | By Stephen Joiner

Eurofighter Typhoon

Europe’s Typhoon Fighter

Who needs stealth?
July 2012 | By Carl Posey

Cancelled: Vertical Flyer

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

A pilot

Under the Eurofighter’s Hood

Europe’s frontline fighter is a marvel of technology.
May 21, 2012 | By Carl Posey

Personal Jetpacks of the Future, Today

Watch Yves Rossy fly his jet-powered wing above the Swiss countryside.
April 24, 2012 | By Heather Goss

2012 Airshow Planner

Use our interactive map to link to 120 events and share your airshow experiences.
April 2012 | By Air & Space staff

Why the Skies Will Not Be Full of Flying Cars

There's a reason why we don't already have them.
April 04, 2012 | By Pat Trenner

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

Green Light for Fuel-Efficiency Races in California

Teams gathered their experimental planes in Santa Rosa, California last week for a competition of their environmental industriousness.
October 03, 2011 | By Heather Goss

X-47 on Deck, Kind Of

This summer the X-47B unmanned combat aircraft made its first arrested landing on the USS Eisenhower. Well, actually it was an F/A-18D Hornet (left) operating as a surrogate, using the software and [...]
September 12, 2011 | By Roger Mola

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

AeroVironment’s Global Observer (in California last year), designed to fly for a week on hydrogen, will triple the endurance of experimental, gas-powered UVAS from the late 1980s.

Distance Runners

Unmanned aerial vehicles redefine the term "nonstop flight."
September 2011 | By Michael Milstein

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

When Calbraith Perry Rodgers took off from New York on September 17, 1911, bound for California, he blazed a sky trail that hundreds of thousands would follow.

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

Streaking Along at Mach 20

Initial reports from an August 11 test of DARPA’s Falcon HTV-2 hypersonic research vehicle were mixed. The glider launched successfully and separated from its Minotaur IV rocket over the Pacific, but engineers lost contact with the vehicle nine minutes into the flight, and the test ended prematurely with the vehicle self-destructing according to safety procedures. [...]
August 29, 2011 | By Tony Reichhardt

Northrop Grummans portrait of the future for naval aviation the X47B on the runway in Palmdale California

*Pilot Not Included

Military aviation prepares for the inevitable.
July 2011 | By Michael Milstein

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

Air Travel 2050: Panoramic Views With a Wave of the Hand

Airbus calls its Concept Plane for 2050 an aircraft “inspired by nature.” But it sure includes a lot of technology. “The idea is to move out from the old-fashioned class system—first class, business class, economy class—and think more about the experience,” says Airbus chief engineer Charles Champion in an interview with The (London) Telegraph. “So [...]
June 15, 2011 | By Rebecca Maksel


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