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Every day, a network of virtual air traffic supports thousands of takeoffs.

Flight Today

Welcome to Cyberairspace

Where you can fly from Chicago to Atlanta without leaving your living room.

Dressed in drone livery, QF-4s are targeted during weapons testing. The testing is done at two Air Force bases, Tyndall in Florida and Holloman in New Mexico. F-4s replaced converted F-106s as the military’s drone of choice. Also droned in their time: F-86 and F-100 fighters and F-102 interceptors.

Military Aviation

Where Have All the Phantoms Gone?

How a fighter-bomber-recon-attack superstar ended up as fodder for target practice.

A world traveler, the dapper Julian founded Black Eagle Airline in 1946 to ferry goods between North and South America.

History of Flight

The Black Eagle of Harlem

The truth behind the tall tales of Hubert Fauntleroy Julian.

Malin with the prototype of one of his cameras in 1999. The flight version was lost on the ill-fated Mars Polar Lander later that year.

Space Exploration

A Cameraman on Mars

If you really want to know the planet, flip through Mike Malin’s photo album.

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Space Exploration

Photo Essay: The Red Album

Mars’ foremost photographers pick their favorite images of their favorite planet.

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Flight Today

Photo Essay:The Blakesburg Fly-In

Antique airplanes—the cream of the crop—fluttered around corn country to celebrate an air mail birthday.

Red Whittaker with his namesake, Red Rover II. Hours after Google announced its Lunar X Prize, Whittaker threw his ’bot in the ring.<br />

Space Exploration

Red and The Robots

Red Whittaker’s rovers have already gone where no robot has gone before. Will one of them make it to the moon?

Among the locals helping the Wrights were Tom Beacham (second from right) with young son John and his dog Bounce.

History of Flight

Present at Creation

From five witnesses came a family tradition to honor the moment the airplane was born.

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Flight Today

Tuning In

What to listen to when you're pretending to be a pilot.

In <i>You Only Live Twice</i>, Sean Connery flies an autogyro souped up with missiles, machine guns, and flame-throwers.

History of Flight

Live and Let Fly

Real pilots rate the performance of the airplanes in James Bond flicks.

#1: The whole Earth from space, as photographed by the Apollo 17 crew in 1972. Arguably the most influential image to come out of the American space program.

Space Exploration

Top NASA Photos of All Time

50 indelible images from the first 50 years of spaceflight

Flight Today

One More Second

The masters of time are about to give us a little extra. Use it wisely.

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January 2009

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Photo Essay

Women Who Fly

Portraits of female pilots


Air & Space Interview

John H. Hill

A brief history of airline passenger seats

Need to Know

What determines an airplane’s lifespan?

Some keep flying for decades, while others end up on the scrap heap.

New Worlds

Confidence Booster

This little known Apollo artifact caused astronauts to rest a little easier.

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