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Amanda Lee is the first woman to fly jet formations as a Blue Angel.

The history of how flying boats opened up travel destinations around the world then they went to war.

Pulling back the curtain on artifacts in storage. For this issue, we feature the Boeing X-45A UAV.

What's new in Aviation and Space

An F/A-18C with a distinguished combat history makes a late-life career change.

Georgia "Tiny" Broadwick was 15 years old when she first jumped out of a hot air balloon with a parachute in 1908. Over the next 14 years she would make over 1,000 jumps, first out of balloons and then as the first woman to jump from an airplane.

Geraldine “Jerrie” Mock touched down in her Cessna 180 at Port Columbus Airport in Ohio, on April 17, 1964, completing the first round-the-world solo flight by a woman. Having departed on March 19, she accomplished her 23,103 mile (37,180 kilometer) journey in 29 days, 11 hours, and 59 minutes.

What’s new in aviation and space. The latest on the search for Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed 10-E Electra. 

Large, slow flying boats like the Consolidated PBY Catalina, played vital roles for naval operations, including launching airborne attacks, anti-submarine patrols, delivering supplies, and performing air rescue. Although missions in these roles may not often be remembered, February 2024 marks the 80th anniversary of one of the most extraordinary flights of the PBY Catalina during World War II.

Walt Disney was an aviation enthusiast who traveled around the country aboard his private airplane, which was nicknamed Mickey Mouse One.