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July 2014

Features

“Inconceivably noisy,” says the author, but a blast.

Geoff Dyer

The James Webb Space Telescope will see out to the universe’s edge.

The James Webb Space Telescope will take the slow boat to Kourou

Today’s manual of fighter tactics was written 100 years ago, in World War I.

Maligned and abandoned, the prototype Northrop X-4 Bantam gets a restoration after 65 years.

The first jumbo jet has transported the equivalent of 80 percent of the human race.

A stroll through the Baikonur Cosmodrome’s neighborhood.

Photographs by James Hill

Russia is building a rocket launch complex six time zones from Moscow. Will its aerospace industry follow?

Made from scratch, a Kestrel takes flight.

Why Douglas Skyknight crews weren’t afraid of the dark.

Technically Speaking

Above & Beyond

Digging out a crashed F-104 in a Spanish village in 1964, I made some unexpected friends.

Oldies and Oddities

In the Museum