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How Things Work: Cabin Pressure
Why you remain conscious at 30,000 feet
What a satellite can do, balloons can do cheaper.
ASM-N-2 Guided Missle
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Every pilot needs a place to work.
Tracking launches from Cape Canaveral required old boats and iron guts.
At the USAF Fighter Weapons School in 1957, the instructors were mean, but the aircraft were meaner.
In the Museum: Centuries of Upward Gazes
In the Museum: Centuries of Upward Gazes
Above & Beyond: Pushback: Newark Airport, 8:45 a.m.
What 9/11 looked like from one airliner’s cockpit
Flights & Fancy: When Pigs Fly
An ingenious new use for an old Cessna
Moments and Milestones: Finding the Wright Spot
Moments and Milestones: Finding the Wright Spot
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After Pearl Harbor, the Japanese planned to strike the United States with aircraft borne by giant submarines.
Japan’s secret foldable-flier weapon.
How Things Work: Celestial Navigation
Knowing where you are going in space.
The fight is on for the chance to build the world’s most advanced space telescope.
Restoration: Unearthing a Diamond
The Diamond is the only one of its kind ever built.
Breathes there the pilot with soul so dead who never to himself hath said, “I bet I can fly under that bridge”?
The People’s Liberation Bizjet
In China, another revolution is about to begin.
They torpedoed enemy ships during World War II. Now they fight fire.
World War II aircraft that were shot to hell—and came back.
In the Museum: Smokers Welcome
In the Museum: Smokers Welcome
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