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Air & Space Magazine

A new National Air and Space Museum exhibit on our photogenic planet.

Earth’s Greatest Hits

A new National Air and Space Museum exhibit on our photogenic planet.

Who painted the Red Headed Woman?

B-24 Mystery

Who painted the Red Headed Woman?

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New Marine Corps Museum

Opens November 13 in Quantico, Virginia.

Students get a chance to name part of the space station.

Name That Node

Students get a chance to name part of the space station.

A pair of Hagerstown natives pose side by side.

Rare Fairchilds

A pair of Hagerstown natives pose side by side.

Four decades after Amundsen, the airplanes started arriving.

First South Pole Landing

Four decades after Amundsen, the airplanes started arriving.

Human-powered airplanes take wing over Baltimore's Inner Harbor.

Flugtag Flyer

Human-powered airplanes take wing over Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.

Visitors wait at Los Angeles International Airport to tour the new Pan Am Jet Clipper Liberty Bell, grounded during Skyshield II in October, 1961.

The Day Nobody Flew

September 11, 2001 wasn’t the first time U.S. air traffic was grounded.

An aerial view of Baghdad International Airport.

Landing in Baghdad

At the world’s most dangerous airport, it’s best to get down quickly.

VERA, in her original glory, leads a group of Me 262s, captured by the U.S. Air Force, as they taxi for takeoff from the airfield at Lechfeld, Germany, in 1945.

Stormbird

Stormbird

Global Postioning System satellites provide lcoations while ADS-B-equipped aircraft share flight information. Communications satellites (not shown) can link air traffic control stations.

How Things Work: Aircraft Identification

A digital communications system could put the control tower in the cockpit.

Tough under pressure: Space station flight director Mark Ferring at his console during last year's STS-114 mission.

The Ground

Astronauts get the glory, but flight directors run the show.

Debuting in 1915, the petite French Nieuport 11 fighter was based on the design of several pre-war racers.

The Great Warplanes

Portraits of military aviation’s first fleet.

The D.VII entered service in 1918 and quickly established itself as the best fighter of the Great World War, as beloved by German pilots as it was feared by Allies.

Cecil Lewis’ War

One writer’s view of flying in WWI.

The first three paying astronauts (left to right, Greg Olsen, Mark Shuttleworth, and Dennis Tito) found that comfort was not guaranteed with their tickets. Enduring the rigors of spaceflight that professionals do was yet another price to pay.

Space Trippers

Did the first paying guests aboard the international space station get their $20 million worth?

Honda's in! As announcements go, this was a whopper. More than 15 years of development preceded Honda's decision, trumpeted at this year's Oshkosh, Wisconsin fly-in, to build the HondaJet. Most attentive listeners? Other jet builders.

The Next Little Thing

Why 2006 is the year of the very light jet.

The X-35A, built to validate propulsion and flying qualities for the Joint Strike Fighter, takes flight in October 2000.

Weight Watchers

How a team of engineers and a crash diet saved the Joint Strike Fighter.

A prototype of NASA's Phoenix Mars Scout Stretches its 6.6 foot-long arm to scoop soil at the Death Valley National Park in California.

The Not-So-Big Dig

With the equivalent power of an electric can opener, engineers try to do more than scratch the Martian surface.

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Above & Beyond: A Bougainville Mystery

Above & Beyond: A Bougainville Mystery

Alberto Santos-Dumont’s 14 Bis had three distinctly different sets of controls, which provided the aircraft’s stability.

In the Museum

The Spirit of Santos-Dumont

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