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January 2003

Features

Building a replica of the first airplane requires a certain resourcefulness. Anybody got any horsehide glue?

Phaedra Hise

How the Soviet Buran space shuttle helped the United States win the cold war.

Tom Harpole

The ninth life of a PBY-5A Cat.

Phil Scott

There's a lot more to the F4U than its past association with black sheep.

Bathing beauties from the time when aircraft first crossed oceans.

Illustrations by Ian Marshall

Japan has one godzilla of a seaplane

Tim Wright

Since 1919, this little airline has managed to keep its head above water

Henry Scammell

All the nail biting, second guessing, and sheer engineering brilliance in the battle to build the better Joint Strike Fighter.

Evan Hadingham

If Boeing's X-37 can maneuver politically as well as in space.

Ben Iannotta