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Air & Space Magazine

In 1924, there wasn't a code for this. A U.S. Army Air Corps Curtiss NBS-1 nosed over in a plowed field.

Spacecraft Collision? Hang-glider Fire? There’s a Code for That.

A new medical coding system allows your doctor to be specific about the cause of injury. Very specific.

Judges for an aviation heritage event at the Reno Air Races knew immediately that the Berlin Express was a restoration worthy of the grand prize.

One Mustang, Three Awards

The Berlin Express pulls off a historic hat trick at the National Aviation Heritage Invitational.

Besides visiting Mars through telepresence, explorers will be able to meet there virtually using software that overlays data onto real imagery, then displays the “mixed reality” holographically so it can be viewed with Microsoft’s HoloLens glasses.

Almost Like Being There

Telepresence and VR may be the smart way to explore the Martian surface—and the only way to go farther.

The largest and most powerful rocket ever built, the Space Launch System (SLS) will take Orion and its crew to the International Space Station, the moon, and eventually Mars. Boeing is the primary contractor for the SLS core stage.

Happy Birthday, Boeing

How a local company became a global giant.

A display of some of the medals awarded to Emmett Davis (in his home, in 2012) sums up a long, exemplary career.

A Fighter Pilot at Pearl Harbor

Emmett “Cyclone” Davis remembers that horrifying day.

A LightHawk volunteer helps conservationists survey Magdalena Bay, where gray whales take refuge.

Fly to Save the Earth

An army of volunteer pilots helps conservationists survey an endangered planet.

The GL-10 Greased Lightning electric tilt-wing is the brainchild of NASA’s Mark Moore

Electrical Power Will Change the Look of Aviation

One propeller? Two? Try a dozen.

Moisant Air Traffic Control Tower, New Orleans, 1977. “If you make it here, you can work traffic anywhere in the country,” a veteran controller told the author.

Game-Day Traffic

Directing air traffic for Super Bowl XII in New Orleans, we controllers had to be on our game.

Spying on the Soviets, With Graph Paper and a Calculator

Figuring out the specs of Cold War Soviet airplanes was educated guesswork, if you had the right tools.

Eta Carinae shines brighter than a million suns.

Mystery Star

For well over a century, astronomers have been enchanted by the peculiar, vast, and violent Eta Carinae.

What Ever Happened to the Men of Hawk Hill?

During the Vietnam War, the author reported on a Huey rescue mission. Forty-five years later, he tracked down the crew and the soldiers they saved.

Maybe the oddest accident report ever filed: the F9F Panther that flew itself.

The Panther That Flew Itself

Maybe the oddest accident report ever filed.

Gordon Cooper’s watch is one of many that will be conserved.

The Watches That Went to the Moon

Most common question: Do they contain lunar dust?

Tighten up (from the top): Heritage Flight Museum founder and Apollo 8 veteran William Anders, Merrill Wien and Alan Anders (in the same aircraft), Craig Nelson, and Greg Anders fly formation to stay sharp for larger warbirds—and just to enjoy the T-6.

The Best-Built Airplane That Ever Was

The worldwide cult of the T-6.

Don Srull has built hundreds of airplane models, including the PWS-10, a 1930s-era fighter flown by the Polish air force.

From Models to Military Drones, Don Srull Has Built Them All

The hobby that launched a career.

Amelia Earhart and the Lockheed Electra she was flying when she disappeared in 1937.

The Flights That Never Returned

A new book reports on some of aviation’s most perplexing unsolved mysteries.

Magellanic Clouds

This image from ESA’s Planck satellite show two dwarf galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud (the red and orange blog near the center) and the Small Magellanic Cloud (lower left). Read more about the image here.

Part of an F-106 that crashed in 1964. The wreckage is in a stand of trees that hasn't been harvested—or visited—in 50 years.

In a Remote Forest, Traces of a 50-Year-Old Mystery

A forester uncovers the nearly forgotten wreckage of an Air Force F-106 that went down in 1964.

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Stormy Flight Ops

Sailors on board the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge prepare for a training exercise.

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1941 Interstate Cadet

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