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For those who use portable electronic devices aboard airliners: Here’s why they’re dangerous.
The Rise and Fall and Rise of Iridium
Iridium’s constellation of 66 comsats was a technological triumph but a business disaster-until an executive and a computer geek found salvation in the Pentagon.
The New England Air Museum discovers the power of Lockheed’s 10.
The place to go for the world’s best warbird-watching? Warbirds over Wanaka, New Zealand.
The People and Planes of Spruce Creek
Fun: flying south for the winter. More fun: flying every day
Ghost alarms, foul odors, and a tourist season? Life aboard the International Space Station.
Seddik Belyamani wrote the book on selling passenger jets.
There’s hardly a combat mission that the A-4 Skyhawk hasn’t flown.
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Once airliners implement this pending FAA rule, a spark will no longer become a flame
Titan, the only major body in the solar system that we haven’t gotten a good look at, is about to be outed.
We want speed! We want vertical lift! The Bell XV-3 Tilt-rotor was the first to satisfy all aeronautical tastes.
Never operate your airplane engine lean of peak exhaust gas temperature. These guys aren’t buyin’ it
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All Guts, No Glory for the Escort Carriers
What they lacked in strength, World War II escort carriers made up in numbers…and the perseverance of their crews.
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To work at the Douglas Aircraft plant, you had to know the jargon.
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If we could see all the holes gouged in the Earth by asteroids, we’d run screaming for cover.
The smaller the airshow, the closer you get to the airplanes and pilots. (And the better the food.)
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In which we survey the variety of objects to which a jet engine can be affixed.
It’s a big country out there, with almost 200 airshows this year. Here’s where and when.
Seven airmen talk about the event none wants to experience.
The only thing more durable than these Junkers Ju 52s are the mountains over which they now fly sightseers.
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