March 2009
Smithsonian magazine delivers trusted and incisive reporting on history, science, nature, culture and travel.
Features
License to Thrill
Meet the first commercial rocketship pilots.
Woe Canada
The only thing that kept Canada from beating the U.S. to a jet airliner was Canada.
A Walk in the Airpark
Rest and renewal in a long-standing pilot community.
Supersonic Sales Call
If you want a customer to spend $10 billion on your jet fighters, you gotta bust some Mach.
Lunar Smackdown
A spacecraft bites the lunar dust.
How Things Work: Flying Fuel Cells
Out of gas? Not a problem.
Max Q Live
In space no one can hear you sing.
Bring Back the Brute
A GeeBee racer in flyable condition? Don’t do it.
Thuds, the Ridge, and 100 Missions North
How the Republic F-105 got good at a mission it was not designed to fly
Departments
Above & Beyond: Shooting Up a Shooting Star
There's more than one way to dump extra fuel before landing
The Bonneville Jet Wars
A California hot-rodder took on the feuding Arfons brothers in the 1960s.
Moments and Milestones: Nobody’s Fuel...Yet
Moments and Milestones: Nobody’s Fuel...Yet