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LOST AND ALMOST FOUND. Cory Graff

is the Verville Fellow at the National

Air and Space Museum and consulting

curator at the Flying Heritage & Combat

Armor Museum.

NIGHT MOVES. Rebecca Maksel is a

senior associate editor at Air & Space/

Smithsonian.

SEA FURY DYNASTY. Preston Lerner has

been writing for Air & Space since 1989.

Further reading: Fly Low, Fly Fast:

Inside the Reno Air Races, Robert Gandt

(Viking, 1999).

AIRPLANE OF THE YEAR. Chris Klimek

is an Air & Space associate editor.

MOVE IT! Ed Darack, a photographer and

Air & Space contributing editor, wrote

The Warriors of Anbar, which will be

published on November 5. He is also the

author of War Moments (Amherst Media,

2019), which features photographs he

took during the United States’ recent

military conflicts.

HOW TO MEASURE A PLANET. Alexandra

Witze is a science journalist based in

Boulder, Colorado.

Further reading: The International

Terrestrial Reference Frame, itrf.ensg.

ign.fr.

NASA’s Space Geodesy Project,

space-geodesy.nasa.gov.

THE CZECH KNIFE. Robert Gandt is the

author of 16 books on aviation and mili-

tary subjects, including Angels in the Sky:

How a Band of Volunteer Airmen Saved the

New State of Israel (W.W. Norton, 2017).

Further reading: No Margin for Error:

The Making of the Israeli Air Force, Ehud

Yonay, Pantheon, 1993.

RETURN OF THE BLACK ARROW.

Thomas Chivers is a science writer

based in London. He recently wrote

his first book, The AI Does Not Hate You:

Superintelligence, Rationality and the

Race to Save the World (Weidenfeld &

Nicolson, 2019).