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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Features:
That Old-Time Profession - BY TOM HARPOLE - How cropdusters grew to be a farmer's best friend.
Great Hero Yang - by James Hansen - When Yang Liwei blasted into space, he became China's first astronaut and its favorite celebrity.
Model Behavior - by Peter Garrison - With today's supercomputers, who needs models in a wind tunnel Airplane makers do.
Restoration: "That Big Biplane" - BY DON PARSONS - For sale: Splendidly restored craft with cow-size cabin.
And Then There Was One - by Stephen Joiner - The sole flying survivors of 10 aircraft types.
How Things Work: Space Station Truss - BY ADAM PITLUK, ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOHN MacNEILL - To build a space station, you need a strong backbone.
Life of a Salesman - by Mark Huber - PHOTOGRAPHS BY TYSON RININGER - The hazards and highs of selling airplanes. '
Shape Shifters - BY michael MILSTEIN - Aircraft that shrink, bend, and do downright creepy things with their wings.
We Recycle - BY LEE ANN TEGTMEIER - That soft drink can you're holding may once have flown at 30,000 feet.
In the Footsteps of the Miqhty Eighth - BY JOHN FLEISCHMAN - With church windows, shrines, and mementos in local pubs, England remembers the Eighth Air Force.
Departments:
Viewport
Letters
Soundings
In the Museum
Above & Beyond
Flights & Fancy
Sightings
Reviews & Previews
Then & Now
Forecast, Calendar
Credits
Moments & Milestones
ON THE COVER Three cheers for ones-of-a-kind: Jack Northrop, who in 1942 created an aircraft that looks futuristic today; the Planes of Fame Museum, which keeps the N-9MB Flying Wing flying; and Philip Makanna, who made the spectacular photo and proposed this issue's story on sole survivors (p. 40).
That Old-Time Profession - BY TOM HARPOLE - How cropdusters grew to be a farmer's best friend.
Great Hero Yang - by James Hansen - When Yang Liwei blasted into space, he became China's first astronaut and its favorite celebrity.
Model Behavior - by Peter Garrison - With today's supercomputers, who needs models in a wind tunnel Airplane makers do.
Restoration: "That Big Biplane" - BY DON PARSONS - For sale: Splendidly restored craft with cow-size cabin.
And Then There Was One - by Stephen Joiner - The sole flying survivors of 10 aircraft types.
How Things Work: Space Station Truss - BY ADAM PITLUK, ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOHN MacNEILL - To build a space station, you need a strong backbone.
Life of a Salesman - by Mark Huber - PHOTOGRAPHS BY TYSON RININGER - The hazards and highs of selling airplanes. '
Shape Shifters - BY michael MILSTEIN - Aircraft that shrink, bend, and do downright creepy things with their wings.
We Recycle - BY LEE ANN TEGTMEIER - That soft drink can you're holding may once have flown at 30,000 feet.
In the Footsteps of the Miqhty Eighth - BY JOHN FLEISCHMAN - With church windows, shrines, and mementos in local pubs, England remembers the Eighth Air Force.
Departments:
Viewport
Letters
Soundings
In the Museum
Above & Beyond
Flights & Fancy
Sightings
Reviews & Previews
Then & Now
Forecast, Calendar
Credits
Moments & Milestones
ON THE COVER Three cheers for ones-of-a-kind: Jack Northrop, who in 1942 created an aircraft that looks futuristic today; the Planes of Fame Museum, which keeps the N-9MB Flying Wing flying; and Philip Makanna, who made the spectacular photo and proposed this issue's story on sole survivors (p. 40).
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