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Jimmy Leeward

Tragedy at the Reno Air Races

Air and Space editor Linda Shiner reports on her meeting with pilot Jimmy Leeward and what it was like in the pits that day
September 19, 2011 | By Linda Shiner, Air and Space magazine

Parking Day Minneapolis

Park(ing) Day’s Roadside Attraction

The founders of Park(ing) Day discuss the birth of their idea and how it became a global phenomenom
September 14, 2011 | By Jeff Greenwald

Floyd Country Store Jamboree

A Musical Tour Along the Crooked Road

Grab a partner. Bluegrass and country tunes that tell America's story are all the rage in hilly southern Virginia
September 2011 | By Abigail Tucker

Tricycle

William Eggleston's Big Wheels

This enigmatic 1970 portrait of a tricycle took photography down a whole new road
August 2011 | By Mark Feeney

Tad McGreer

Drones are Ready for Takeoff

Will unmanned aerial vehicles—drones—soon take civilian passengers on pilotless flights?
June 2011 | By Richard Conniff

Norries rickety platform

Catching the Bamboo Train

Rural Cambodians cobbled old tank parts and scrap lumber into an ingenious way to get around
January 2011 | By Russ Juskalian

Snow shoes

In Case of Emergency, Pack Snowshoes

In 1933, Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh prepared for the worst by packing winter gear before flying over the Arctic
January 2011 | By Owen Edwards

Photographer Russ Juskalian

Russ Juskalian on “Catching the Bamboo Train”

December 22, 2010 | By Megan Gambino

Reeve Lindbergh

Childhood Memories of Charles Lindbergh

In an excerpt from her memoir, Reeve Lindbergh, the daughter of the famous aviator, recalls her father's love of checklists
December 20, 2010 | By Reeve Lindbergh

Sully Sullenberger

Q and A: Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger

The pilot of US Airways Flight 1549 talks about that fateful day, being a pilot and his future
November 2010 | By Megan Gambino

Blue Ridge Parkway

75 Years of the Blue Ridge Parkway

Winding its way through Appalachia, the scenic road is the result of workers and politicians who blazed the trail in the 1930s
September 16, 2010 | By Jim Morrison

Shai Agassi

Charging Ahead With a New Electric Car

An entrepreneur hits the road with a new approach for an all-electric car that overcomes its biggest shortcoming
August 2010 | By Joshua Hammer

Eyjafjallajoekull volcano erupting

What We Know From the Icelandic Volcano

Geologist Elizabeth Cottrell discusses the effects of the Icelandic volcanic eruption and the work of the Smithsonian’s Global Volcanism Program
April 22, 2010 | By Erica R. Hendry

Java Island Indonesia

An American Who Died Fighting for Indonesia's Freedom

Bobby Freeberg, a 27-year-old pilot from Kansas, disappeared while flying a supply-filled cargo plane over the Indonesian jungle
March 23, 2010 | By Simon Montlake

Graf Zeppelin Christmas letter

Holiday Delivery From the Graf Zeppelin

In 1934, a zeppelin originating in Germany and bound for Brazil carried a cargo of Christmas cheer
December 2009 | By Owen Edwards

Amelia Earhart

Flying With America's Most Famous Female Aviators

Dozens of talented women preceded Amelia Earhart, and thousands have followed, and each has her own groundbreaking story to tell
October 22, 2009 | By Patricia Trenner

Fez Morocco donkeys

Morocco's Extraordinary Donkeys

The author returns to Fez to explore the stubborn animal's central role in the life of this desert kingdom
September 2009 | By Susan Orlean

Castleton Gardens Jaimaca

Captain Bligh's Cursed Breadfruit

The biographer of William Bligh—he of the infamous mutiny on the Bounty—tracks him to Jamaica, still home to the versatile plant
September 2009 | By Caroline Alexander

Los Angeles freeway

Taking the Great American Roadtrip

In the spirit of Kerouac and Steinbeck, the celebrated travel writer fulfills a childhood fantasy: to drive across his native land
September 2009 | By Paul Theroux

Hunter S Thompson

Great Road Trips in American Literature

From Twain to Kerouac to Bryson, writers have found inspiration in hitting the road and traveling the United States
August 20, 2009 | By Abby Callard


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