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Air & Space Magazine

Aviation Art: The Lighter Side

In wartime, a customized Zippo was part of an airman’s identity

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A Fair View

Learning the attractions of the 1939 New York World’s Fair, by air.

Jeb Corliss "Grinding The Crack"

Duck!

The wingsuit master does it again

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Sentimental View

An arresting look at a restored B-17G Flying Fortress.

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Going Once….The 1920 Pulitzer Race Trophy

“Never in the history of official flying in America has a man traveled with such great velocity”

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Destination: Moon or Asteroid? Part III: Resource Utilization Considerations

Part III:  Resource Utilization Considerations

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Destination: Moon or Asteroid? Part II: Scientific Considerations

Part II:  Scientific Considerations

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Pirates Ready to Board the Space Station

Ahoy there, Matey!

Draper Lab team members Bobby Cohanim (in black shirt) and Eph Lanford check fittings and connections on TALARIS before running a test.

Leaping Lunar Landers!

Can a spacecraft hop its way to winning the Google Lunar X prize?

Staff Sergeant Michelle Torrey, right, with Master Sergeant Brett Kitzman load an AIM-120 missile onto an F-16.

The Changing of the Guard

Ten years after 9/11, what life is like in an Air National Guard unit.

In his flight jacket with 17th Bomb Group patch, Dick Cole looks ready to fly Panchito, a restored B-25J, at a Raider gathering in Punta Gorda, Florida, last March.

The Raiders Remember

In an annual ceremony, the last of the Doolittle Raiders recall their part in victory over Japan.

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.

Stranded

Four aircraft, 12 airmen, 25 days, 40 below zero, in the middle of nowhere.

At Amsterdam's Schipol airport in the Netherlands, air traffic controllers oversaw 386,000 takeoffs and landings last year.

Heroes in the Tower

Stories about air traffic controllers that you probably didn’t see on the evening news.

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.”

In 2004, salvagers pulled a Bell P-39 from a Siberian lake, where 60 years earlier pilot Ivan Baranovsky had crash-landed it.

Lieutenant Ivan Baranovsky’s P-39

An airacobra’s journey to the eastern front…and back

An emotional Gene Breiner (at lectern, with daughter Joyce and General Jack Dailey, director of the National Air and Space Museum) donated Plane Jane to the Museum this past June in hopes of inspiring future pilots.

In the Museum: A Fleet’s Final Flight

A civilian flight trainer enters the collections.

Kauffeld and Bruce Tully discuss a model that Tully built in his high school shop class.

Above & Beyond: Tully’s Astronarium

A high-schooler champions science in America

The prone-pilot Gloster Meteor testbed, couch included, is on permanent R&R at Britain's Royal Air Force Museum Cosford.

Oldies and Oddities: Lying Down on the Job

Piloting in the prone position

The China Clipper "scudded along a considerable sea swell" before vaulting into the air, reported Leo Kieran.

Moments and Milestones: Once Around

The 75th anniversary of a round-the-world trip.

At the Black Sheep Squadron's base on the South Pacific island of Espiritu Santo, Boyington (holding paper) briefs his pilots on an upcoming mission.

Reviews and Previews: Prodigal Son

A troubled man, Gregory Boyington found redemption commanding a U.S. Marine fighter squadron in the South Pacific

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