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AskMen.com	Teamwork: Simon Sinek Don't forget to push yourself outside of your comfort zone. "It is that well-oiled machine that makes the pilots and the United States Air Force such a remarkable organization."
Popular Mechanics December 28, 2009 Michael Belfiore	The Top 9 Airplane Tech Advances of the Last 10 Years The past decade has seen enhancements in everything from cargo planes to hypersonics.
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IEEE Spectrum December 2011 Philip E. Ross	When Will We Have Unmanned Commercial Airliners? Unmanned planes dominate the battlefield, yet airliners still have pilot - -and copilots.
Defense Update July 2008	Raptor Displays Super Aerodynamics at Farnborough 2008 In a breathtaking demonstration of aerodynamics and power, the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor air dominance fighter claimed an uncontested position as a 'superfighter'.
Popular Mechanics December 10, 2008 Michael Milstein	Is a Controversial Technology to Blame for the F-18 Crash? The F/A-18D Hornet that slammed into a residential neighborhood in San Diego Monday came from the first family of fighter jets with full fly-by-wire technology.
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IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Willie D Jones	Dutch Start-up Hopes to Spark Takeoff of Flying Car Market Engineers at Spark Design Engineering have created a three-wheeled personal air and land vehicle that takes off like a plane and lands like a helicopter.
The Motley Fool March 11, 2008 Rich Smith	F-117 Fades to Black The U.S. Air Force will hold a "retirement party" for its groundbreaking F-117 Nighthawk fighter jet in April.
Salon.com December 13, 2001 Katharine Mieszkowski	A no-fly zone for terrorism By taking pilots out of the loop, can software prevent planes from being used as bombs?
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IEEE Spectrum August 2008 Tekla S. Perry	Airlines: Got Fuel? Airlines are now putting the minimum amount of fuel in planes necessary to reach their destination, but are they underestimating the amount they need?
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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?
Wired July 2005 Ron Berler	Saving the Pentagon's Killer Chopper-Plane 22 years. $16 billion. 30 deaths. The V-22 Osprey has been an R&D nightmare. But now the dream of a tilt-rotor troop transport could finally come true.
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National Defense June 2009 Grace V. Jean	Training For War: A Multimedia Experience Just as training technologies for the newest fighter jets are going digital, so are those for one of the Air Force's oldest airplanes, the C-130 Hercules.
National Defense April 2011 Grace V. Jean	Army Slow To Adapt Fly-by-Wire Controls for Helicopters Fly-by-wire technology has long been credited for enabling military fighter jets to maneuver through the air. The technology displaces the pilot's mechanical linkages to the flight control surfaces with wires, which will allow a digital signal to "drive" the helicopter.
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Popular Mechanics December 2008 Mark Wolverton	Engineers to Push Business Jets Beyond the Sound Barrier In a bid to bring Mach-busting jets to wealthy travelers, aircraft vendors including Gulfstream and Lockheed Martin are designing airplanes with features that may reduce sonic booms.
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Aviation History May 2006 R.E. van Patten	Hanna Reitsch: Hitler's Female Test Pilot Groundbreaking pilot Hanna Reitsch set more than 40 records in her lifetime. But she was tragically slow to recognize the ruin into which the Nazis were leading her homeland.
Salon.com September 20, 2002 Patrick Smith	Ask the pilot What happens when you drop dry ice into an airplane toilet? And are regional pilots just rejects from the big airlines?
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?
The Motley Fool November 30, 2006 Rich Smith	Red Storm Landing It's the end of an era at Lockheed as the F-117 Nighthawk gets put out to pasture. Investors will just have to hope that Lockheed can make up the lost Nighthawk profits on bigger Raptor and Lightning II production runs.
National Defense November 2004 Harold Kennedy	Guard Refueling Mission Proves a Bit Too Exciting To see what really goes on in the day-to-day life of the tanker fleet, a National Defense reporter rode along on a recent training mission flown by the 108th Air Refueling Wing of the New Jersey Air National Guard.
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Aviation History March 2006 Paige W. Christiansen	Arthur Goebel Jr.: Forgotten Golden Age Daredevil A skillful transpacific flier, Hollywood stunt pilot and daring racer, Arthur Goebel Jr. seemed to thrive on danger.
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National Defense December 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Air Force Drills Emphasize `Expeditionary' Combat Skills With the number of aircraft expected to shrink in the years ahead---particularly fighter jets---the service will require a different talent mix, and eventually will end up with fewer fighter pilots and more officers in other specialties considered more relevant to the war on terrorism
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