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An airplane ahead of its time.
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Two years before Apollo 8, Lunar Orbiter 1 showed us how Earth looked from the moon.
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Space station astronauts catch an Alaskan volcano blowing its stack.
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Three more planets join the Original Nine.
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What flies into your mind when you hear the words “light aircraft”? We bet it’s the 172.
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Restoring the Northrop YP-61 Black Widow
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How de Havilland’s famous bushplane has helped protect a species.
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World War I airplanes star in a feature film about the Lafayette Escadrille.
Commentary: Thank You For Not Flying
Helicopter ambulances could be hazardous to your health.
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Has Hammondsport, New York, done right by its most famous citizen?
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Mars, Venus, Titan - wherever there’s air, we can explore by balloon.
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In the summer of ‘58, nothing was faster to 50,000 feet
Double the size of an Airbus A380? No problem, aerodynamicists say.
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For armored vehicles, fossilized pachyderms, and other oversize loads, your best bet is the Russian Mi-26 helicopter.
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It takes a big eye to see a missile coming
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New pilots, new government.
Far away in the Middle East, soapbox racing flies the hearts of military persons back home.
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The next lunar lander will be a giant leap ahead of the first.
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Because airplanes must fly in the real world, the Air Force built a fake one.
Eleven airplanes you could only call “cute.”
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