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Air & Space Magazine

NTSB investigators on the scene of the SpaceShipTwo crash last November.

SpaceShipTwo Crash Was Due to Pilot Error, and a Lapse in Safety Culture

The company running the suborbital vehicle’s test program failed to pay enough attention to the possibility of human error.

A CubeSat launched from the International Space Station.

Nanotechnology + Small Satellites = Big Returns

A NASA study group hopes to build powerful science instruments for the next generation of CubeSats.

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Triple Crescent

Three Saturn moons, Titan, Mimas, and Rhea, line up for this image by Cassini.

Flirtey's UAV, en route to a delivery in Wise, Virginia last week.

In Rural Virginia, a Drone Makes the First Legal U.S. Package Delivery

Advocates call it a “Kitty Hawk moment” for the flying package business.

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John Glenn Climbs into Friendship 7

Solar Impulse landing in Hawaii, March 7, 2015.

Seven Thousand Kilometers on No Gas

After their longest leg, the sun-powered Solar Impulse crew tells how they did it.

During a spacewalk on mission STS-131, astronaut and author Clay Anderson, hanging from the space station, waved to his shuttle Discovery crewmates.

Confessions of a Station Astronaut

Clayton Anderson talks about his new book, The Ordinary Spaceman.

Patricia Mawuli built the Rotax-powered Zenith CH701; she uses the aircraft for supply runs to rural villages in West Africa.

A Ghanaian Woman’s Quest to Work—and Fly

How Patricia Mawuli beat the odds to become an airplane builder and airport manager.

The Draganflyer has helped the Mounties locate lost hikers.

This Drone Can Save Your Life

Just ask the hiker it helped rescue in 2013.

The U.S. Army cut off funding for the Long Endurance Multi-intelligence Vehicle (LEM-V) after one flight.

Advice for Airship Builders: Think Smaller

Grandiosity has been the ruin of many a dirigible design.

TransPac Aviation Academy's February 2015 graduating class, in character. The Arizona flight school's student body is roughly 80 percent Chinese.

China Needs Pilots

A boom in Chinese air travel is sending hundreds of novices to flight school in Arizona.

Cmdr. Dean S.“Diz” Laird is the only U.S. Navy ace to have scored combat victories in both the European and the Pacific theaters of World War II.

The Last American Aces

Members of an exclusive club tell what it takes to make ace.

Low down and dirty: A United 747-400 flies a "dirty" pass (with flaps and gear down) by the Golden Gate Bridge during the 2010 Fleet Week Air Show.

The Jumbo Flies an Airshow

The Boeing 747, like you’ve never seen it fly.

Pigeons fly alongside DHL's parcelcopter during trials in 2013.

Delivery by Drone

Around the world, quadcopters are turning into mail carriers.

The historic C-47, tail number 42-92847, was discovered recently in a conversion yard.

Crowdsourcing Saves D-Day’s First Airplane

The C-47 that led the Normandy invasion gets a reprieve.

Drone’s-eye view: From 60,000 feet, a NASA Global Hawk observed Tropical Storm Frank swirling over the Pacific in August 2010.

How to Start a Hurricane

What makes one small eddy fizzle out, and another turn into the planet’s most destructive storm?

An x-ray of the boots Neil Armstrong wore on the moon, taken before the launch of Apollo 11, is now in private hands.

Space $ouvenirs

Collectors compete for artifacts from the Apollo program.

The Elko “airfield”. A target from above, topiary from below.

In 1942, the Army Built a Decoy Airfield in Virginia to Fool the Luftwaffe

Henrico County residents came to call it “The Lost City”

Anderson working inside the station's Destiny laboratory in 2007.

Bad Day in Space

Patience and frustration on the ISS

Years before Topeka I flew, Longren built one of Kansas' first motorcycles (not pictured).

The Birdman of Topeka

By 1912, Albin Longren was building better airplanes than the Wrights and Curtiss.

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