Air & Space Magazine: September 2006
Articles
Where the War Began
A new aviation museum preserves Pearl Harbor's past.
Tomcat Tribute
The Navy's fearsome fighter retires.
The Grumman Cats
Just under nine lives that created a company legend.
Persian Cats
How Iranian air crews, cut off from U.S. technical support, used the F-14 against Iraqi attackers.
Star Quality
How did we love the Tomcat? On the 20th anniversary of Top Gun, we count the ways.
Stronger Than Dirt
Lunar explorers will have to battle an insidious enemy—dust.
Show Me the Way to Go Home
Long before the Global Positioning System, pilots got from town to town by reading rooftops.
Keep Watching the Ice
Meet the satellites bringing data to the discussion of global warming
Flameout
Why the fire in a perfectly healthy jet engine can die.
Swing Wings
It's all done with computers (and good old-fashioned hydraulics).
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January 2009
Snapshot
Helo Maneuvers
Flares over the Pacific
Reader Scrapbook
Send In Your Photos
Check out our scrapbook of readers' aviation and space pictures. Then add your own.
Need to Know
What determines an airplane’s lifespan?
Some keep flying for decades, while others end up on the scrap heap.
