Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
FEATURES:
An American Obsession - BY PAUL HOVERSTEN - When she vanished70 years ago this Julyshe was as big a star as Greta Garbo. Is that why some are still driven to solve the mystery of Amelia Earhart
Can We Hear Them Now - BY TONY REICHHARDT - Speak up, space aliens. These 42 new radio telescopes are all ears.
Alenia's Gamble - BY JOE PAPPALARDO - To help build the Boeing 787's composite fuselage, Italy spends a bundle.
Flight Lines - BY MARIANA GOSNELL - Why contrails hang around.
Buried at the Bottom of the World - BY CARL HOFFMAN - When people die serving their country, to what lengths must a government go to recover the bodies
Restoration: 'Hawks Come Home - BY KEN SCOTT - Two stray Curtiss P-40K Warhawks find a good home in Minnesota
In Thrust We Trust - BY PETER GARRISON photographs BY CHAD SLATTERY - There's liquid rockets, sotid rockets, hybrid rockets, self-devouring acrylic rockets. There's rocketships, rocket bikes, rocket trucks, rocket salami. Tim Pickens has built them aSL
How Things Work: Afterburners - BY DAMOND BENNINGFIELD - Jets get no kick from champagne, but a little fuel in the tailpipe...
The Niihau Zero - BY NICK D'ALTO - A downed Japanese pilot an isolated island, a moment of betrayal, and a rare airplane recovered 60 years later.
SPECIAL SECTION - THE SPACE AGE AT 50:
The Real Reasons We Explore Space - BY MICHAEL GRIFFIN - Ambition, curiosity, and a reason the NASA Administrator admits has nothing to do with economic benefit.
50 Ways to Space Out - BY ROGER A. MOLA
Happy Birthday, Sputnik! - Here's how to party.
REGULARS:
Viewport
Letters
Soundings
In the Museum
Above & Beyond
Flights & Fancy
Sightings
Reviews & Previews
Then & Now
Credits
Forecast
Moments & Milestones
ON THE COVER - In her biography of Amelia Earhart Doris Rich reports that on July 19,1937, after a 16-day operation involving 4,000 men. 10 ships, and 65 airplanes, U.S. Navy officials declared that the search for Amelia Earhart was over. "They were wrong," Rich writes. "It had only begun.'
An American Obsession - BY PAUL HOVERSTEN - When she vanished70 years ago this Julyshe was as big a star as Greta Garbo. Is that why some are still driven to solve the mystery of Amelia Earhart
Can We Hear Them Now - BY TONY REICHHARDT - Speak up, space aliens. These 42 new radio telescopes are all ears.
Alenia's Gamble - BY JOE PAPPALARDO - To help build the Boeing 787's composite fuselage, Italy spends a bundle.
Flight Lines - BY MARIANA GOSNELL - Why contrails hang around.
Buried at the Bottom of the World - BY CARL HOFFMAN - When people die serving their country, to what lengths must a government go to recover the bodies
Restoration: 'Hawks Come Home - BY KEN SCOTT - Two stray Curtiss P-40K Warhawks find a good home in Minnesota
In Thrust We Trust - BY PETER GARRISON photographs BY CHAD SLATTERY - There's liquid rockets, sotid rockets, hybrid rockets, self-devouring acrylic rockets. There's rocketships, rocket bikes, rocket trucks, rocket salami. Tim Pickens has built them aSL
How Things Work: Afterburners - BY DAMOND BENNINGFIELD - Jets get no kick from champagne, but a little fuel in the tailpipe...
The Niihau Zero - BY NICK D'ALTO - A downed Japanese pilot an isolated island, a moment of betrayal, and a rare airplane recovered 60 years later.
SPECIAL SECTION - THE SPACE AGE AT 50:
The Real Reasons We Explore Space - BY MICHAEL GRIFFIN - Ambition, curiosity, and a reason the NASA Administrator admits has nothing to do with economic benefit.
50 Ways to Space Out - BY ROGER A. MOLA
Happy Birthday, Sputnik! - Here's how to party.
REGULARS:
Viewport
Letters
Soundings
In the Museum
Above & Beyond
Flights & Fancy
Sightings
Reviews & Previews
Then & Now
Credits
Forecast
Moments & Milestones
ON THE COVER - In her biography of Amelia Earhart Doris Rich reports that on July 19,1937, after a 16-day operation involving 4,000 men. 10 ships, and 65 airplanes, U.S. Navy officials declared that the search for Amelia Earhart was over. "They were wrong," Rich writes. "It had only begun.'
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