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Airplanes

Flight Log

From the cockpit transcript of a Navy training flight near Seattle, in 2017. The exchange was released in May, following an investigation. Excerpts from the transcript were first published by…

High Concept

by Hans Ulrich Obrist,

From Ways of Curating, by Hans Ulrich Obrist, out this month from Faber and Faber. Obrist is the codirector of exhibitions and programs and of international projects at the Serpentine…

Sirocco

by Michael Christopher Brown,

Boeing’s Plastic Planes

by Andrew Cockburn,

How Boeing’s adoption of defense-contracting practices led to the flawed Dreamliner 787

No step

by Nicholson Baker,

Untitled

by Pete Turner,

Events in the skies

by Doris May Lessing,

Affirmative action

by Harper’s Staff,

Tools for living

by Harper’s Staff,

Introductory flying lesson

An alphabet of aviation

Art by Paul Richard Jones,

What’s in a statistic?

by Harper’s Staff,

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