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September 2011

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Draper Lab team members Bobby Cohanim (in black shirt) and Eph Lanford check fittings and connections on TALARIS before running a test.

Leaping Lunar Landers!

Staff Sergeant Michelle Torrey, right, with Master Sergeant Brett Kitzman load an AIM-120 missile onto an F-16.

The Changing of the Guard

Special Section: True Grit

When Calbraith Perry Rodgers took off from New York on September 17, 1911, bound for California, he blazed a sky trail that hundreds of thousands would follow.

First Across the Continent

In his flight jacket with 17th Bomb Group patch, Dick Cole looks ready to fly Panchito, a restored B-25J, at a Raider gathering in Punta Gorda, Florida, last March.

The Raiders Remember

When seven men got stuck in a grim patch of Greenland in 1948, the Air Force sent a B-17 to rescue them, but it got mired in soft snow (top of montage), only worsening the predicament.

Stranded

At Amsterdam's Schipol airport in the Netherlands, air traffic controllers oversaw 386,000 takeoffs and landings last year.

Heroes in the Tower

AeroVironment’s Global Observer (in California last year), designed to fly for a week on hydrogen, will triple the endurance of experimental, gas-powered UVAS from the late 1980s.

Distance Runners

In 2004, salvagers pulled a Bell P-39 from a Siberian lake, where 60 years earlier pilot Ivan Baranovsky had crash-landed it.

Lieutenant Ivan Baranovsky’s P-39

WASP pilot

The Mobile in Mobilization

Departments

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Viewport: Across the Country in 49 Days

J.R. Dailey
Interview

Raceplane Builder Par Excellence

Linda Shiner
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In the Museum: A Fleet’s Final Flight

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Above & Beyond: Tully’s Astronarium

Robert Yowell
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Oldies and Oddities: Lying Down on the Job

Graham Chandler
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Reviews and Previews: Prodigal Son

Phil Scott
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Moments and Milestones: Once Around