Think of Yankee Lima Four Two as a time machine: Jump in and you’re back in Vietnam.
Commentary: A More Perfect Astronaut
With new techniques in genetic experimentation, can biologists make hardier space dwellers?
This hard-working band of pilots and fleet of weary airplanes keep the U.S. auto industry rolling along.
Now and then, the faintest whisper returns from NASA’s distant space probes.
Air and spacecraft as art.
Handley Page Halifax under restoration in Canada.
Air crash investigators train students to fit little pieces into the big picture.
The B-52 that launched a thousand ships.
A Russian-born journalist penetrates mission control for Mir’s final moments.
Moments and Milestones: Proteus Maximus
Moments and Milestones: Proteus Maximus
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When Bad Things Happen to Good Drones
What could go wrong with an F6F drone? You had to ask.
Above & Beyond: Stealing the Show
Above & Beyond: Stealing the Show
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In the Museum: Beautiful Goose
In the Museum: Beautiful Goose
One Balloon Bomber (Slightly Used)
First it carried a Japanese bomb 5,000 miles across the Pacific. Then it carried Don Piccard across Minneapolis.
Sam Ting is on a mission: find the other half of the universe.
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There’s something down there. And it may be Antoine De Saint-Exupéry’s P-38.
Lesson learned: never send a man to do a machine’s job.
When the job demands ingenuity, NASA engineers whip gadgets worthy of James Bond.
The Lockheed L-1649A Starliner gets a makeover.
The origins of the missing man formation.
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