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Popular Mechanics
June 2006
Michael Abrams |
Step 1: Fire Jet Boots. Step 2: Jump. How a Finnish wingsuiter is setting odd new benchmarks in human flight.   |
Wired
September 2003
Michael Abrams |
Wingman Want to soar like an eagle? Then go with a parasail or a hang glider. But for those who dream of screaming through the air like a superhero, there's the Skyray - a solid, triangular, carbon-fiber contraption that lets skydivers shoot above the clouds at 186 mph for two exhilarating minutes. |
AskMen.com
Steve Richer |
How To: Go Skydiving So bear-baiting and nude rodeo are too tame for you now? What you need is to step it up a notch and try skydiving. After all, you've seen Point Break, Drop Zone and Terminal Velocity, and it didn't seem so hard. |
Fast Company
April 2002
Chuck Salter |
Leap of Faith Skydiving champion Cheryl Stearns, who has jumped out of airplanes more times than any other woman on the planet, explains how she uses fear to her advantage, makes soft landings, and plans a world-record plunge from 130,000 feet... |
Wired
August 2001
Craig Offman |
Terminal Velocity One pressure suit. One parachute. 130,000 feet. Two skydivers are racing to push the envelope of the stratosphere -- and survive smashing the sound barrier on their way back down to Earth... |
Aviation History
Nick D'Alto |
Victorian Dreams of Flight In the 1840s, British aeronautical pioneers envisioned a world where air travel would connect people around the globe. |
Aviation History
January 12, 2005
Gerald A. Schiller |
Squadron of Death: Flying and Dying for Hollywood A daring group of former barnstormers introduced American film fans to flying thrills and chills in the 1920s. |
Scientific American
January 16, 2006
Sarah Todd Davidson |
Pumped-Up Performance Engineers report that it is just a matter of a few tweaks over the next year before inflatable aircraft or inflatable wings on otherwise normal airplanes will be operational. |
Outside
September 2005
Brad Wetzler |
Get Your Props Widen the horizons of adventure by taking the controls and becoming a pilot |
Salon.com
June 28, 2002
Patrick Smith |
Ask the pilot Do pilots sweat bullets during wind-whipped landings? And why are those darn windows so small? |
Outside
February 2006
Tim Sohn |
Huge Base jumper Miles Daisher wants to throw himself off a deliriously high bridge in idaho, crawl his way back to the top, and repeat 50 times in 24 hours. |
Salon.com
April 11, 2002
P. Smith |
Back in the saddle These days, because I am an airline pilot, people want to know if I'm scared. Of course I'm scared. I would be nervous flying with a pilot who wasn't... |
Technology Research News
February 12, 2003
Kimberly Patch |
Butterflies offer lessons for robots Researchers from Oxford University in England have devised a method of studying the way butterflies fly, and their initial results show that the insects have many more tricks of flight than they get credit for. |
Salon.com
July 14, 2000
Elliott Neal Hester |
Robbery at 30,000 feet Adventures in real-life airplane stickups. (And you thought hijacking hardly happened anymore.) |
Salon.com
September 12, 2001
Phaedra Hise |
Flying with phantoms A pilot waves goodbye to the World Trade Center... |
Salon.com
July 18, 2002
Patrick Smith |
Ask the pilot Do airlines cut down the flow of oxygen in the cabin to save fuel? Can wind shear rip off a plane's wing? |
DailyCandy
October 16, 2004 |
Travel: You So Fly Ready to earn your wings? Take an introductory flight with a certificated instructor at your local flight school or airport; then follow the AOPA's tips for getting started. |
Salon.com
August 2, 2002
Patrick Smith |
Ask the pilot Can it really get too hot to fly? And what was it like to be in the air on Sept. 11? |
AskMen.com
Steve Richer |
How To: Get A Private Pilot's License We are at a point now where human flight is open to just about everyone, even the likes of flyboys Tom Cruise and John Travolta. Accordingly, it's become painless for someone to get their private pilot's license. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2005
Rafal Zbikowski |
Fly like a Fly The common housefly executes exquisitely precise and complex aerobatics with less computational might than an electric toaster. Several groups have succeeded in building electronic sensors that mimic the fly's vision and other flight control apparatus. |
Salon.com
November 1, 2002
Patrick Smith |
Ask the pilot More fun with the poetry of airliner names. And, what to do about those narrow seats for wide people? |
Salon.com
August 23, 2002
Patrick Smith |
Ask the pilot How hard is it fly an airliner? And why can't I keep my tray table down during takeoff? |
