Stories from this author
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Once a best-seller, the airliner’s pilots still swear by it.
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About Those Airliner Batteries
They’re not the same as the AAs from your hardware store, or even your car battery
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Why Do Airliners Have Teething Problems?
If they’re introducing new technology, problems are almost guaranteed
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The Ranger Series of Space Probes Finally Succeeded — On the Seventh Try
Did President John F. Kennedy’s speech in 1962 create a spark?
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Aerospace jobs south of the border? Yes, and it’s been that way for a long time.
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How far does a trip have to be to travel by air? Answer our poll.
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In the airplane business, clothes make the salesman.
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75 years ago, the Army Air Corps’ XC-35 launched the pressurized cabin.
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For its innovation and emphasis on inner beauty, the Hondajet deserves a recent design award
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Flying clubs can bring the costs of operating an airplane within the reach of mid-income pilots
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Moments and Milestones: The Bridge Builder
Twenty-five years ago, Mathias Rust decided to personally intervene in the cold war
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Is the TSA forever? We’re interested in your opinion
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Two pilots won a trophy in 1937 for keeping their hands off the controls.
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The East is Red (or at Least a Kind of Pinkish Color)
China is making inroads in the aerospace business, but it’s difficult to think of an industry that’s harder to break into
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Making a Smoother (and Speedier) Airplane
Within months of its first flight, August Bellanca’s Skyrocket II set five world speed records.
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A Yak 3U gets to 10,000 feet in 125 seconds.
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Pilots will always remember Ed King as the man who built their radios.
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Not Your Father’s Safety Board
Smart and experienced, the National Transportation Safety Board will delve into issues facing General Aviation in a forum to be held next week.
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Not grounded, but close.
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The Air Force’s most sophisticated fighter, the F-22, has a problem with its oxygen system, and increasingly, with its image.
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