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First Around the World

For balloonists Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones, the end of one journey marked the beginning of another.

Reno Wrap-up

What was hot—and what was not—at the 2009 National Championship Air Races.

Hawker Hurricane at the NASM Udvar-Hazy Center. Smithsonian NASM Udvar-Hazy Center Photo By Dane A. Penland

Sightings: Hazy's Hits

A photo gallery of airplanes at the National Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center.

Rare Bear

Is Winning Everything?

For an air racing legend named Rare Bear, yes.
September 2009 | By Diane Tedeschi

The authors daughter, spellbound by a Hercules C-130

Flights and Fancy: Like Father, Like Daughter

January 2010 | By David Unekis

Hello HAL: Pilots needed a computer to fly Grumman’s X-29.

Moments and Milestones: Swept Forward

January 2010 | By George C. Larson, Member, NAA

An Aerial View of Geology

Photographer Michael Collier and his Cessna 180 bring North America's coastal landscapes into focus.

UAV

Unmanned Traffic Jam

To the Federal Aviation Administration, civilian UAVs are the new barbarians at the gate.
July 2009 | By Douglas Gantenbein

How Things Work: Flying Upside Down

The tricks that keep the engine from knowing it’s not right side up.
May 2002 | By Patricia Trenner

Futuristic look, vintage airplanes

Wild New Yonder

The Air Force opens a virtual air base in Second Life.
August 2009 | By Tony Reichhardt

Boeing’s X-48B, a 500-pound blended wing-body demonstrator with a wingspan of 21 feet, banks over California’s Mojave Desert.

Batplane

Even around other X-planes, the X-48B looks weird.
August 2009 | By Peter Garrison

An upward spiral is one of Sean Tucker’s gentler maneuvers.

Tumbling with the Stars

Today’s airshow performers do it gyroscopically.
July 2009 | By Debbie Gary

Broken microcapsules leave impressions seen through a microscope after a healing agent has bled out in a fracture plane of a composite material.

How Things Work: Self-Healing Airplanes

Several technologies that could put mechanics out of work.
July 2009 | By Tom LeCompte

Can Pete Buck adapt technology to convert a Sonex model into a practical electric airplane?

The Electric Airplane

Quiet, smooth, dependable—shouldn’t we be flying these by now?
August 2009 | By Peter Garrison

The pilot in his 100-horsepower Cassutt racer, in which he set world altitude and speed records.

The Man Who’s Flown Everything

Robert “Hoot” Gibson’s priorities: (1) Fly. (2) Fly some more.
May 2009 | By Robin White

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