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Highlights the efforts of the Friends of Hammondsport to build a Glenn H. Curtiss Memorial Park along the shore of Keuka Lake in Hammondsport, New York. Accomplishments of airplane designer Glenn Hammond Curtiss; Award won by Curtiss for the plane June Bug; Cost of the land that the Friends of Hammondsport plans to transform into a memorial park.

Reports on the development of a super-jumbo jet being built by Airbus Industrie. Description of the jet, A3XX, including the possible number of passengers and costs for the development; Discussion of the engineering challenges faced in building the passenger airliner which include fitting it within current airport infrastructure; Observations of financial gains associated with the aircraft market for 500-seat aircraft. INSET: Sonic Bust.

Focuses on aircrafts made of composite materials. Accidents involving composite aircrafts; Difference between aluminum and composites; Environmental factors that can change the composite's properties; Estimation of the remaining strength and life of composite materials by the use of the MRLife, a performance simulation code developed by Ken Reifsnider.

Reports on the development of Propulsion Controlled Aircraft (PCA) planes that use engine thrust as a means of steering. Percentage of crashes caused by loss of flight controls; Airplanes controlled digitally as opposed to manually; Testing of the Intelligent Flight Controller; Dilemma of whether to spend money on PCA equipment or on training for pilots.

The article presents an interview with Tara Lyssenko from A&T Recovery who discusses initiation of the company A&T Recovery; use of radar fixes for finding for finding planes in Lake Michigan; and recover of the planes from Lake Michigan.

The article reports that an intellectual property attorney in New York, John Lane has reorganized the Wright v. Curtiss patent infringement case for a mock retrial in an inns of court. Attorneys for the Wright brothers, Melvin Garner and Robert Morgan, and Curtiss' attorneys, Gary Butter and Kevin Murphy, argued the definition of "aeroplane."

Relates the restoration of the Lockheed Electra airplane by Bill Taylor, a volunteer in New England Air Museum in Hartford, Connecticut, in 2004. History of the airplane; Failure of the McGuire restoration project; Description of the interiors of the airplane.

Reports on the restoration work for the Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina, an amphibious aircraft used by the U.S. Navy during the World War II. Role of the aircraft during the World War II; Original design of the aircraft.

The article describes the efforts of the organization the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) and over 2,500 volunteers to construct a Zenith CH 750 Cruzer kit during the AirVenture 2014 festival in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. According to the article, the volunteers had one week to build the plane. The article describes volunteers who pulled rivets and states that a core group of 25 builders worked in two shifts to construct the plane. The article presents comments from EAA homebuilt programs manager Charlie Becker.

Focuses on the British Airways' Concorde, G-BOAD. Details on getting the G-BOAD on the barge; Display of the Concorde in the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum.

Provides information on New York City's Red Bull Flugtag, a five-hour competition among three dozen teams, each piloting an aircraft. Motive for organizing the event; Basis for the design of the aircraft, Superfunkadactyl; Requirements for participants in the event.

Presents information on the Air Force Armament Museum at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Aircraft displayed at the museum.

Reports on the developmental project called the Electronic Plane (E-Plane) by Jim Dunn, president of Advanced Technological Products. Description of the E-Plane; Inventions of Dunn; Grant received by Dunn.