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Before each mission, ground crews fed the Thunderchief’s 20-mm Gatling gun with ammunition.<br />

Military Aviation

Thuds, the Ridge, and 100 Missions North

How the Republic F-105 got good at a mission it was not designed to fly.

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The hardest working band in the space business, at the 2004 RE/MAX Ballunar Liftoff Festival.

Space Exploration

Max Q Live

In space no one can hear you sing.

A worker does a final paint touchup before the Gee Bees debut in the San Diego Air & Space Museum.

History of Flight

Bring Back the Brute

A GeeBee racer in flyable condition? Don’t do it.

With $79 million on the line, NASA hopes a crash landing detected by a companion spacecraft will yield valuable data about lunar ice.

Space Exploration

Lunar Smackdown

A spacecraft bites the lunar dust.

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Before crashing into the moon, the Ranger spacecraft sent back images of the lunar surface 1000 times better than what could be obtained from telescopes on Earth.

Space Exploration

A Smashing Success

How the Ranger probes’ moon crashes helped pave the way for Apollo.

Canadian newspapers trumpeted the glories of the Avro C102 Jetliner, which made its first flight in 1949 at Malton Airport in Toronto.

History of Flight

Woe Canada

The only thing that kept Canada from beating the U.S. to a jet airliner was Canada.

Flight Today

How Things Work: Flying Fuel Cells

Out of gas? Not a problem.

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.

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March 2009

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Photo Essay

Cities From the Sky

Sherman Fairchild, the photographer who transformed aviation

Air & Space Interview

Georgy Mosolov

A top Soviet-era test pilot talks about his favorite MiGs and his friend Yuri Gagarin.

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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