February 2024

Features

Supersonic travel: Dead on arrival?

By Keith Button

The ‘Wild West’ of space research

By Jonathan O'Callaghan

Democratizing flight

By Aaron Karp

Departments

Flight Path

Preparing the Engineers of the Future

By Dan Dumbacher

AIAA Bulletin

February 2024 AIAA Bulletin

Editor's Notebook

The multiple meanings of the word of the decade

By Ben Iannotta

Letters to the Editor

On building bolder telescopes

AeroPuzzler

Bottoms up

Aerospace in Action

The fuel behind Vulcan’s debut

By Cat Hofacker

Q & A

Lessons from the space shuttle

By Cat Hofacker

Engineering Notebook

Collision avoidance for air taxis

By Keith Button

Jahniverse

Why indigenous tribes in the U.S. must have a voice in matters of space

By Moriba Jah