Air & Space Magazine: August 2007
Articles
Calling All Mustangs
This September a super-size squadron of P-51s will relive the legend.
Popularity Contest
Which one of six past champions would have gotten your vote?
Online Poll: The People's Choice
Your chance to pick the "Best of the Best".
Magic Airport
Watch the Burning Man revelers pull an airport out of the desert...then make it disappear.
The Country Where Nobody Flies
Did Cuba abandon its private pilots or did they abandon Cuba?
An Airplane in Every Barn
A once-thriving organization of rural pilots is struggling to survive.
Danger: Airplane Crossing
Controlling airplanes on the ground is a thornier problem than controlling them in the air.
Northern Exposure
We've already seen water ice on Mars. NASA's Phoenix lander will reach out and touch it.
Russia's Long Love Affair with Space
It started with Utopian dreams and rocketeers.
We Shocked the World
Nikita Khrushchev's son recalls the night Sputnik made history.
Book Excerpt: "On Cuban Wings"
Chronicling the island's rich aviation history
Legs, Bags, or Wheels?
When choosing landing gear for Mars spacecraft, engineers have to weigh their options-literally.
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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.
