OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 1998
- FEATURES:
- Tribute to Alan Shepard
Alan Barlett Shepard Jr. 1923-1998 - Birth of the Cool
- Extreme Machine
- by George C. Larson
The first all-new aircraft configuration in 30 years, the V-22 Osprey is a curious combination of airplane and helicopter.
- Poster:
Osprey
- by Harry Whitver
The airplane that hovers like a helicopter.
- Whose Planes Are They, Anyway?
- by Carl Hoffman
With so many parties lusting after the Navy's old warbirds, custody battles are flaring up everywhere.
- Walk This Way
- by David S.F. Portree
Designing a spacesuit for Mars begins with one small step for man--and a whole bunch of little steps for a guy in a spacesuit.
- Vietnam Memoir:
The Ravens of Long Tieng
- by Ralph Wetterhahn
For over a decade inb Laos, these American pilots fought an intimate, brutal, and secret war.
- What I Learned at Kitplane Camp
- by Phil Scott
Forget leather wallets and potholders. At this camp, the crfts project is really a keeper.
- Back on the Line
- by James R. Chiles
Independence, Kansas, is growing a new crop: the light airplane.
- 27,000 Seconds in Hell
- by T.A. Heppenheimer
The fierce temperatures and extreme pressures required of the space shuttle main engine gave its engineers it a devil of a time.
- DEPARTMENTS:
- In the Museum:
- Focke Wulf Ta 152-H, Gore at Earth Today exhibit
- Above & Beyond:
- Debbie Gary Callier on the Pancho Barnes set
- Flights & Fancy:
- Lunar non-believers
- Sightings:
- Scott Andrews, shuttle photog
- Collections:
- Central Australian Aviation Museum, Alice Sprints
- Soundings:
- Merry-go-round GPS tester, Never-Go Navaho, Leonid shower, Blériot's water landing, Hughes flying boat home, Cronkite and Glenn reunited, Aerated Solid Propellent, Japan's human-powered-aircraft contest, the ambitious Jamail Larkins, Canadian Space Agency's MOST telescope, Apollo beer
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