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Air & Space Magazine

Have you seen me?

Where is the Wright Brothers’ Patent?

It appears to have, uh, gone missing.

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Dogfighting in the Pacific

Navy pilots take on the Malaysian air force for some training. 

Dragonflies for Sale

Robot insects are about to go commercial

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At The Ready

The New York Air National Guard prepared for Hurricane Sandy.

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Great Balls of Floating Fire

Astronauts burn droplets of fuel in space to study combustion.

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What Are You Wearing?

In the airplane business, clothes make the salesman.

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Rover Selfie

What do you think, looking good?

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Ocean of Storms, Oceans of Argument

A new paper claims mineral evidence for the largest basin on the Moon — is it true?

Wounded service members are taken off a C-17 and brought into Scott, which serves as a hub in moving the injured from the battlefield to U.S. treatment facilities.

The Flying Emergency Room

One reason more soldiers are making it home alive.

After a successful wartime career as a patrol aircraft, the Martin Mariner served as an aerial firefighter and a fish hauler.

The Smithsonian Roadshow

Can’t make it to the Museum? There might be an artifact on loan right in your neighborhood.

The Pollysboy 11 crew: Author Paul F. Stiller, standing, third from left; Bruce McCormick to his left; George Fabik, far right; Eric Neptune, front row, far right.

When the Missiles Left Cuba

A Navy aircrew got it on film.

The only Dymaxion to ever house a family is now a display at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.

Home Sweet Duralumin

A Buckminster Fuller design was grounded in aerospace technology.

Additive manufacturing could be used for creating concrete structures on the moon.

Printed in Space

If your star tracker breaks on the way to the moon, just hit Command P.

Militiamen trained in the Escambray mountains while superpowers tested each other’s resolve. The background in this composite image is from a U-2 photo of Cuba.

Cuba During the Missile Crisis

Fifty years later, Cubans remember preparing to fight the Americans.

At de Havilland in 1943, a worker prepares wood strips for a Mosquito hull.

Restoration: Carpenter’s Special

De Havilland D.H.98 Mosquito

The trademark plexiglass sphere enclosing its cockpit gave the Bell 47 its nickname and provides the pilot cruising this beach a glorious view of a Florida sunset.

Ode to the Bubble

The Bell 47, famous as the star of “Whirlybirds,” was the DC-3 of helicopters. Could it make a comeback?

HATSouth telescopes search for dim planets orbiting the stars in Chile’s Atacama desert sky.

Pint-Size Sky Watchers

While monster telescopes get the attention, the little guys quietly — and cheaply — rack up cosmic finds.

194 navigator Peter Briscoe and Fatty Pearson.

Who Was Fatty Pearson?

A World War II British foot soldier’s best friend in the air, and the man who rescued Ernest Hemingway.

The XC-35 (in flight near Wright Field in August 1937) earned the U.S. Army Air Corps the 1937 Collier Trophy for its substratospheric design.

Flying in Comfort

75 years ago, the Army Air Corps’ XC-35 launched the pressurized cabin.

And the Oscar Goes to… the Airplane!

Some of the airplanes that loom largest in our collective memory have flown only in the movies

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