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September 2015

Features

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Bring the Fallen Airmen Home

A volunteer group helps fund searches for the missing by selling rides in the types of aircraft they once flew.

David Sears

Disaster Prevention in a Gulfstream

Earthquakes, volcanoes, mudslides: Airborne radar watches all the ways the earth moves.

Alexandra Witze

Huey Pilots: Where the Heroes Were Made

Basic training for a dangerous job.

James R. Chiles

15 Years of Living in Space

The highs and lows of life in an orbiting tin can

The Editors; Graphic by Ted Lopez

Russian Territory

How the other half lives.

Anatoly Zak

Space Station ER

What happens if an astronaut in space needs surgery?

Tim Wright

The Future of Construction in Space

Is the International Space Station the last aluminum spacecraft?

Bruce Lieberman

Love Letter to the 747

In his new book, an airline pilot contemplates the wonder of flight and the world’s first jumbo jet.

Mark Vanhoenacker

Where Did Max Miller Die?

One man’s search for the place where the U.S. Air Mail Service lost a star

John Fleischman

Departments

Soundings

Showtime for E-Planes

A battery-powered race to cross the English Channel.

Soundings

ISO First Moon Lander

Fifty years later, researchers try to locate the first spacecraft to land on another world.

Leonard David

Interview

John C. Lewis

A visionary scientist says that asteroids and comets can be the foundation of a lucrative space-based economy.

Solar System Chatter

A hundred satellites, all talking at once. Here’s the intel.

Technically Speaking

The Cult of the Sonic Cruiser

The airliner that never took off.

Oldies and Oddities

The Last Piston-Engine Dogfights

Corsairs against Mustangs in the skies over Central America in 1969.

In the Museum

Mementos of the First Flights

Evelyn Kendall’s collection of early flight artifacts lands at the Museum.