10 Great Pilots | History of Flight | Air & Space Magazine

10 Great Pilots | History of Flight | Air & Space Magazine: "WHEN WE ASSEMBLED THE FOLLOWING LISTS OF GREAT PILOTS (and the list of milestone flights that follows), we faced the same dilemma that Von Hardesty, a National Air and Space Museum aeronautics curator, faced as author of Great Aviators and Epic Flights (Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc., 2003)."

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Evacuating the Injured | Military Aviation | Air & Space Magazine

Evacuating the Injured | Military Aviation | Air & Space Magazine: "After graduation from the Naval Academy and commissioning as a Marine Corps pilot, I went to flight school and selected the CH-46E Sea Knight out of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California. The CH-46 is the Marine Corps’ medium-lift assault support platform."

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The X-47 Ships Out | Military Aviation | Air & Space Magazine

The X-47 Ships Out | Military Aviation | Air & Space Magazine: "The U.S. Navy’s dream of a pilotless combat jet that can fly off an aircraft carrier, refuel in the air, complete its mission and then land safely back on the flat top has taken a couple of steps closer to reality."

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Pedal Power | Flight Today | Air & Space Magazine

Pedal Power | Flight Today | Air & Space Magazine: "t was difficult to take in all at once: Four giant Mylar-covered rotors the size of windmill blades rotated, fishing line winding around a spool plinked like an untuned toy harp, and a vast, spidery structure trembled with the effort of a madly pedaling figure at its center. The pedaling figure turned the spool that wound the fishing line that worked the pulleys that drove the rotor blades. Late in the afternoon of May 4, 2011, no one was breathing in the University of Maryland gym."

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