Air & Space Magazine: August 2007

Articles

Calling All Mustangs

This September a super-size squadron of P-51s will relive the legend.
By Stephen Joiner

Popularity Contest

Which one of six past champions would have gotten your vote?
By Linda Shiner

Online Poll: The People's Choice

Your chance to pick the "Best of the Best".
By The Editors

Magic Airport

Watch the Burning Man revelers pull an airport out of the desert...then make it disappear.
By Chad Slattery

The Country Where Nobody Flies

Did Cuba abandon its private pilots or did they abandon Cuba?
By Rafael Lima

An Airplane in Every Barn

A once-thriving organization of rural pilots is struggling to survive.
By Giles Lambertson

Danger: Airplane Crossing

Controlling airplanes on the ground is a thornier problem than controlling them in the air.
By Michael Milstein

Northern Exposure

We've already seen water ice on Mars. NASA's Phoenix lander will reach out and touch it.
By Charles Petit

Russia's Long Love Affair with Space

It started with Utopian dreams and rocketeers.
By Asif Siddiqi

We Shocked the World

Nikita Khrushchev's son recalls the night Sputnik made history.
By Sergei Khrushchev (Translated by Lyudmila Khomenko Chillico)

Book Excerpt: "On Cuban Wings"

Chronicling the island's rich aviation history
By Jorge and Diana Rodriguez

Legs, Bags, or Wheels?

When choosing landing gear for Mars spacecraft, engineers have to weigh their options-literally.
By Tony Reichhardt

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Phobos Fly-by

Shooting a Martian moon.

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Need to Know

The Luftwaffe’s Flying Wing

The Horten Ho 229 is in line for restoration at the Air and Space Museum.