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January 2002

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Features

Young Turks

The Turkish Air Demo team is winning friends at home with its seven Northrop F-5s.

Special Report: Aftermath

Are government and industry doing enough to make the sky secure?

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Ready, Set, Flap!

Birds do it, bees do it. Can two weird aircraft make aviation history doing it?

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How Things Work: Cabin Pressure

Why you remain conscious at 30,000 feet

Science Floats

What a satellite can do, balloons can do cheaper.

Restoration: The Bat

ASM-N-2 Guided Missle

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The Front Office

Every pilot needs a place to work.

The Rocket Ships

Tracking launches from Cape Canaveral required old boats and iron guts.

Air Combat U

At the USAF Fighter Weapons School in 1957, the instructors were mean, but the aircraft were meaner.

Departments

Viewport

Viewport: A Matter of Scale

Viewport: A Matter of Scale

In the Museum

In the Museum: Centuries of Upward Gazes

In the Museum: Centuries of Upward Gazes

Above & Beyond

Above & Beyond: Pushback: Newark Airport, 8:45 a.m.

What 9/11 looked like from one airliner’s cockpit

Uncategorized

Flights & Fancy: When Pigs Fly

An ingenious new use for an old Cessna

Moments and Milestones

Moments and Milestones: Finding the Wright Spot

Moments and Milestones: Finding the Wright Spot