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(SUMMARY) While doing research on the Northrop Grumman B-2, we came across this story from Rebecca Grant s 2001 book The B-2 Goes to War , about the stealth bomber s combat debut during the 1999 Kosovo War. During a typical mission the bomber has to refuel...

(SUMMARY) Space X Founder Elon Musk, who s profiled in our current issue , discusses (at a recent National Press Club event) the prospect of 8,000 people moving to Mars for half a million dollars each.

(SUMMARY) Photo by joo0ey After your holiday visit, by the time your relatives have dropped you off at the airport, you may be so full of home cooking that your usual comfort food joints near Gate 35 don t look that good. If you re in Detroit, airport vendors...

(SUMMARY) Predicting the future is never easy, things don’t always turn out the way you expect, blah blah blah…. Here goes anyway, with our forecast of space program events and trends for the coming year: 1.  Russification of space .  Human spaceflight will...

(SUMMARY) A U.S. Army soldier with the 10th Special Forces Group and his military working dog jump off the ramp of a CH-47 Chinook helicopter during water training over the Gulf of Mexico, March 2011. Photo by Tech. Sgt. Manuel J. Martinez, U.S. Air Force/DoD....

(SUMMARY) (Photo: rwh) As expected, the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg tossed out a lawsuit filed by North American airlines that would have asked for a waiver on “cap-and-trade” carbon emissions taxes that will be imposed on all aircraft operating to...

(SUMMARY) Last week a handful of lucky aviation fans got a special tour through the Lockheed Martin factory in Marietta, Georgia, to attend the rollout ceremony for the last F-22 Raptor off the production line. The group took part in the company s first...

(SUMMARY) Have you seen me? (Photo: Museum Vliegbasis Deelen) The Museum Vliegbasis Deelen in The Hague, Netherlands, is missing its F-104 Starfighter. The 33-foot-long model of D-8105, with dummy missiles on the wingtips, had been mounted on a tripod outdoors...

(SUMMARY) An artist rendering of the gas cloud being pulled towards Sgr A*. Courtesy ESO/MPE/Marc Schartmann Not long from now, astronomers are going to witness something they ve never seen before: a black hole chowing down on a feast. Although scientists have...

(SUMMARY) Reading about L2 Aerospace s new device, you might think of MacGyver. Suddenly needing to do a little reconnaissance, he grabs a scrap of pipe and some duct tape and cobbles them together, while his cohorts look on in amazement, wondering why they...

(SUMMARY) Sullenberger with his daughters in 2001 -- pre-fame. (Photo courtesy Chesley Sullenberger) Scuttlebutt inside the FAA has it that Chesley Sullenberger, or Sully, the pilot who executed a spectacularly successful ditching of a USAirways Boeing 737 in...

(SUMMARY) John Gillespie Magee Jr. Whether you love it or hate it, John Gillespie Magee s High Flight remains the most enduring of aviation poems: Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I ve...

(SUMMARY) The Allen Telescope Array is back online. If any of you aliens out there rang our Earth line this summer, would you kindly try dialing in again? After an eight-month down time, SETI the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence is back up and running...

(SUMMARY) An F-16 goes belly-up. (Photo: ACC) Although the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds will still fly at 2012 airshows, as will the Air Force Heritage team, the service recently announced that its A-10, F-16, and F-15 single-ship demonstration teams will not....