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Air & Space Magazine

During a 2011 performance over Quonset Point, Rhode Island, the Skytypers soloists cross within 50 feet of each other.

World’s Biggest Billboard

Want to get your message across in letters as tall as the Empire State Building and stretching across eight miles of sky? Call The Geico Skytypers.

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Water + ZZ Top – Gravity =

Playing with sound waves and a drop of water in microgravity.

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Elephant Walk

F-16s taxi down the runway.

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Three Dust Devils

Storms move across the Martian landscape.

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Toe Koozies

The zero-gravity equivalent to flip-flops

A Sea Shadow (IX-529) craft at dusk.

Sea Shadow for Sale

For a mere $300,000, you can buy this unique stealthy seagoing vessel

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Get Me to the Derby On Time

The Run for the Roses starts with a flight to Churchill Downs

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Space History Items Bring $1 Million

To buy a piece of space history, you need plenty of cash

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A Comet’s Tale

The story of the first commercial airliner is brave and tragic. 

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The Tyranny (and Power) of Rocket Travel

The energy now stored in my body is seven times greater than what would be in an 80- kilogram pile of TNT

The Weird World of Folk Aviators

With his whimsical sculptures, Gregory Bryant celebrates early ideas about winged flight.

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A Saturn V’s Final Journey: From Mildew to Museum

A new book recounts (sort of) the difficult restoration of a deteriorating Saturn V

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The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers*

The legal status and ownership of resources harvested from space are unclear. How does such uncertainty affect our plans to exploit them?

In a 1935 publicity stunt, Fred Key checks the oil in flight.

The Pressure’s On

The ingenious—and goofy—modifications of endurance flights.

Louis DeHatre ran a St. Louis diner that attempted to sate the young “Slim” Lindbergh’s hearty appetite.

Lindbergh Ate Here

The young airmail pilot logged plenty of time at the local diner.

No fan of aviation, Rudolph Dirks was persuaded by a friend to attend the air meet. The “bizarre carnival atmosphere” delighted the artist, who rushed home to paint “The Fledglings,” considered the first serious artistic attempt to depict aircraft flight.

The Katzenjammer Kids Take to the Air

It took a cartoonist to paint the first serious depiction of aircraft flight.

Former ATA pilot Molly Rose actually preferred the Spitfire to the Hurricane (pictured).

The Women’s RAF

In World War II Britain, a new group of pilots answered the call to serve.

Just one Brabazon made it off the assembly line. The supersized airliner, with its 230-foot wingspan, rumbled over the British countryside in 1951, accompanied by a Bristol 170 Freighter.

Cancelled: Design by Committee

The Bristol Brabazon was big and it flew. Much more can’t be said.

Alaska’s Denali National Park and Preserve fills the windows of an AStar B3 helicopter en route to base camp.

Air Rangers

The wild flights of Park Service pilots.

Han Decai (among many others) would find that only a missile could down the high-altitude spyplane.

Bring Down the Spyplane

MIG-17 vs. Lockheed U-2

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