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Air & Space Magazine

Max Q performs at the STS–114 mission success celebration at Space Center Houston in 2005.

Max Q Live

In space no one can hear you sing.

Even though the rugged airplane had survived an emergency nosewheel landing on its second test fight, the Jetliner’s days were numbered. Not even interest from Howard Hughes (opposite, top) was enough to save it. Instead, Avro ramped up production of its CF-100 fighters (left).

Woe Canada

The only thing that kept Canada from beating the U.S. to a jet airliner was Canada.

Roger Guest strolls the lawns, where airplanes (Cub, foreground; Citabria, background) rather than cars rule.

A Walk in the Airpark

Rest and renewal in a long-standing pilot community.

A U.S. Navy pilot briefs an Indian reporter before a VIP flight at Aero India in 2007.

Supersonic Sales Call

If you want a customer to spend $10 billion on your jet fighters, you gotta bust some Mach.

With $79 million on the line, NASA hopes a crash landing detected by a companion spacecraft will yield valuable data about lunar ice.

Lunar Smackdown

A spacecraft bites the lunar dust.

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How Things Work: Flying Fuel Cells

Out of gas? Not a problem.

During a flight demonstration Stateside, an F-105 carries a full bomb load: 16 750-pounders. While attacking targets in Vietnam, though, Thuds were generally outfitted with 6,000 pounds of bombs and two auxiliary fuel tanks.

Thuds, the Ridge, and 100 Missions North

How the Republic F-105 got good at a mission it was not designed to fly

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Above & Beyond: Shooting Up a Shooting Star

There’s more than one way to dump extra fuel before landing

This Cozy made it across the country on fermented-plant fuel.

Moments and Milestones: Nobody’s Fuel…Yet

Moments and Milestones: Nobody’s Fuel…Yet

Luis and Walter Alvarez at the KT boundary. Dinosaurs on the bottom right; little critters on the top left.

Human Spaceflight: What Value to Science? (Pt. 1)

Robots vs. astronauts

Artist's concept of the Titan Saturn System Mission

Your Flight to Titan Is Delayed

We won’t see balloons flying over Saturn’s moon Titan any time soon.

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Pay-Per-Loo

Michael O’Leary, head of Ireland’s low-cost airline Ryanair, let slip on Friday that he was considering charging passengers to use the onboard lavoratories

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Pioneering Pilots

A Florida flight museum honors African-American aviators.

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He’s Got A Point

“The crew that carried out the Hudson ditching are testimony to the fact that training pays”

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Lulin’s Twin Tails

A visitor from deep space brightens the night sky.

AFA Air France Delivery Flyaway of First 777 Freighter at Paine Field Everett WA K64632-04

Cargo-ready

A people hauler becomes a freight hauler.

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Another Strategic Plan Misfires

There seems to be no end of new “strategic plans” designed to “save” our nation’s space program from the purgatory of mediocrity.

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Jovian Junket

NASA and ESA head back out to the big planets.

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Two-Timer

Where do you take your next vacation after you’ve been to space? If you’re billionaire Charles Simonyi, you go back.

Musical Airs

Songs inspired by the early age of flight.

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