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July 2012

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Features

Felix Baumgartner

The 120,000-Foot Leap

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Europe’s Typhoon Fighter

Leroy Chiao

My Other Vehicle Was a Spacecraft

Will Whitesides Yak-3U

A New Time-to-Climb Record

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Inside Boeing’s 787 Factory

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Cancelled: Vertical Flyer

TacSat-2

Hurry-Up Satellites

Mercury

Piggyback Airplanes

Departments

Viewport

Viewport: Champion of the Fleet

J.R. Dailey
Soundings

Gyroplanes Swarm in Florida

Bill Wilson
In the Museum

Summer at the Smithsonian

Above & Beyond

Bait and Switch in Libya

Commander Thompson E. Sanders U.S. Navy (Ret.)
Flights & Fancy

Short Strips and Flying Pigs

Nate Gordon
Moments and Milestones

Making a Smoother (and Speedier) Airplane