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January 2015

Features

Specialized—and terrifying—training helps passengers prepare for the worst.

Descendants of the volunteers who served in the famed Lafayette Escadrille shed light on why they chose to fight.

Paul Glenshaw and Dan Patterson

The Piper PA-48 Enforcer may have been called the “Super Mustang,” but it never found its mission.

Stories from the fastest jet ever flown

The Editors

The hunt for the most elusive particles in the universe is half a mile underground.

A look at the air war waged from the ground.

If the space station gets smacked by a micrometeoroid, an array of devices can find—and fix—the damage.

Soundings

A German princess takes to the runway to produce “jet-art.”

Phil Scott

Soundings

On its 75th anniversary, the pilots association celebrates successes and looks to the future.

Technically Speaking

The idea of connecting city centers with vertical take-off airports never quite took off.

Above & Beyond

In 1966, a Naval aviator got an unforgettable look at an icon of the Cold War: the Soviet Tupolev Tu-95.

Oldies and Oddities

In 1964, midwestern farmers and school kids got a jump on the Apollo astronauts.

Nick D'Alto

In the Museum

Small-engine wonders in the Museum’s collection.

Tim Wright