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- WELCOME TO AIR&SPACE!
- Good Early Morning from AIR&SPACE Magazine. (It's 3:20 AM on Sunday, October 20, 1996 at our secret west coast base.) We are always happy to see Netscape users at our site. You'll see the best our site has to offer! As of now, we've served 117726 copies of our home page.
What's in the new issue of Air &
Space/Smithsonian? A history detailing
the rise and fall of the Pogo fighters
during the Cold War, as well as a
report on counterfeit parts for airliners.
Is traveler safety being compromised?
All this and more in the Oct./Nov. 1996 issue.
SPACE
BEAT
We're pleased to introduce SpaceBeat, wherein veteran space reporter and Air & Space/Smithsonian Contributing Editor Greg Freiherr brings us news and views of missions, programs, and plans from the aerospace world.
TALKING WITH:- DON LOPEZ, WORLD WAR II FIGHTER ACE
Air & Space associate editor Diane Tedeschi recently interviewed Colonel Donald S. Lopez, U.S. Air Force (ret.), who flew a Curtiss P-40 Warhawk with the 23rd Fighter Group in China. After the war, Lopez worked as an Air Force test pilot at Eglin Field in Florida, experiencing firsthand the United States' transition into the Jet Age. Read her interview and view wartime footage of P-40s flying formation over China.- WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF AVIATION
- Air&Space/Smithsonian is pleased to welcome WINGSPAN, a cable television channel devoted entirely to flight and aviation, to our Aviation Exposition.
- THE LAST PISTON SHOW
- Once a year, the last of the big iron from World War II and three other classes of closed course pylon racers show up in Reno, Nevada to see who has the fastest airplane and who is just talking. In our April/May 1992 issue, we took a look at "The Last Piston Show".
- ON MINIATURE WINGS
- ON MINATURE WINGS will take you on a guided tour of some of the National
Air and Space Museum's model aircraft collection's highlights. Lavishly
illustrated with over 150 full-color photographs, this book offers a fact-filled
introduction to the marvelous miniature world of aeromodeling.
From
"Runways of
Fire". In a Cold War program, tests were conducted to see if aircraft
could be captured on short runways using arresting cables. In this Sighting,
an F-84 makes a successful - although abrupt - arrival at the test rig.
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- RUNWAYS OF FIRE
Runways of Fire: The Video. Featuring historic footage with contemporary production and analysis, this just-completed family video will provide hours of entertainment for aviation enthusiasts.
- AIR COMBAT U.S.A.
Air Combat U.S.A. is the original fighter pilot training group, featuring instruction in SF-260 fighter-trainer aircraft.
- INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF AIR SHOWS
- The 1995 International Council of Air Shows Convention in Las Vegas
offered evidence that Air Shows may be about to move out of the hand crafted
amateur event status and become big time show business.
- VISITOR CONTACT INFOBASE
- Our Visitor Contact InfoBase is an all purpose bulletin board and contact clearing house for those on the information highway looking for others with similar interests. Take a moment to fill out our entry form, and let others know who you are and what your aerospace interests are. Then you can search the InfoBase for others with similar interests and discover how to get in touch.
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SEEN ON THE WEB
Follow the adventures of Tom Claytor, Bush Pilot in his solo expedition to the seven continents of the world. Speaking of bush flying, the Alaskan Region of the FAA has posted Flight Tips for Pilots in Alaska, which contain more than you may want to know about flying in the great north. And, finally, we ran across a wonderful little Amelia Earhart site you should see.
Here is a sample from our Sightings page, where we feature unique QuickTime and QTVR movies, including the C-130 Landing on the Aircraft Carrier.
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