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August 2015

Features

Around the world, quadcopters are turning into mail carriers.

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

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

Photography by Robert Seale

Has a young Brazilian professor created the fastest raceplane in its class?

Eric Stewart

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

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

Arielle Emmett

Collectors compete for artifacts from the Apollo program.

Rachel Manteuffel

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

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

Giles Lambertson

Soundings

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

Technically Speaking

Grandiosity has been the ruin of many a dirigible design.

Solar System Chatter

Above & Beyond

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

Jonathan "Capt. Yaw" Porter

Oldies and Oddities

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

Nick D’Alto

In the Museum