The Only Flying Twin Mustang
Last of the Long-Distance Escorts
Complete issue of the "Air & Space" magazine from March 2009 with an 8 page article about the Twin Mustang.
Also in this issue:
To Build a Monster Rocket
Everything about the Space Launch System is gigantic: the hardware, the test stands, and the challenges.
BY JAMES R. CHILES
The Year of UFOs
For a few brief blurry moments, 2019 started to look like an episode of "The X-Files."
BY GREG EGHIGIAN
Omaha to Salt Lake City Without GPS
An admirer of 1920s airmail pilots imitated their style of navigation. Here's how that worked out.
BY WILLIAM E. DUBOIS
Land Right Here!
Once we thought it amazing that a spacecraft could hit a planet; next year, one will land on a dime.
BY KARA PLATONI
Big Dig for a Buzz Bomb
Thousands of V-1 flying bombs feil on England in 1944-45. Two brothers are finding as many as they can
BY TOM METCALFE
Adventures Above the Oil Fields
When oil was discovered in the Middle East, airplanes soon followed.
BY MICHAEL QUENTIN MORTON
Last of the Long-distance Escorts
From the annals of the Korean War, a unique twin-cockpit fighter is resurrected from parts.
BY LEIGH GIANGRECO
l WAS THERE
Space Junk
A NASA engineer recalls the dangerous problem of tossing out trash from the International Space Station. The solution was not without controversy.
BY MIKE ENGLE
At the Museum:
The historic Bell X-1 is still on view.
DEPARTMENTS
Viewport
Letters
Up to Speed
l Was There
At the Museum
Sightings
Reviews
Preview
Contributors
Magazine
many photos
good condition
Washington D.C. - 2020 - Smithsonian Institution
Art.Nr. 19917
