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The article features the airliner Lockheed Constellation (Connie), dubbed "Queen of the Skies," which is owned by Vern Raburn of the Paul Allen Group and was built by aerospace company Lockheed Martin. Topics discussed include the author's experience of flying a Connie, its golden era from the 1940s to the 1950s, and Connie's decline in the 1960s when Trans World Airlines (TWA) launched the airliners Boeing 707 and Convair 880.

The article focuses on the operations of Bill Walker, a jet-airline broker who imports Antonov An-2 Soviet airliners in Georgia. It is said that Walker has sold 11 of the utility planes at a range of 40,000 to 80,000 U.S. dollars depending on mileage, hours on the engine and flight surfaces. A brief background on Walker is presented, who previously worked as a consultant to Lithuanian Airlines. Information on some of his customers is also provided, which includes insurance agent Aaron Newman.

The article discusses the author's experience driving the Lotus Exige S two-seat coupe across Virginia. He passed by a dogwood-dotted farmland along Highway 522, north toward Fredericksburg. He drove through Scrabble passing the Tightsqueeze Plaza before circling back to get to Appomattox. He also drove the Lotus automobile on the Virginia International Raceway.

The article presents the author's experience of visiting various tourist destinations in Texas. The author got his father-in-law as his sudden copilot. The author says that he started out from Iowa and for about one month about a month he went wherever his mood took him. He says that the trip was a memorial to his father. According to the author he never got the chance to do a big ride with his father. INSETS: The Aston Martin Vanquish S;Making Tracks.

The article presents information on several countries to visit, including Scotland, California, Denmark and Nova Scotia. The travel routes to such place are described. The restaurants and lodging hotels are also mentioned. The scenic sites to visit are cited. The car rental services are also included.

Focuses on several automotive technologies developed by car manufacturers to enhance performance. Advantages of the development of computer-controlled variable valve timing to the car's engine performance; Benefits of purchasing cars with automatic transmissions; Significance of the introduction of screen-based interfaces that controls audio and navigation functions to drivers.

Describes the country of India as a tourist destination. Cities in the country popular among tourists; Tourist attractions of the country; Ways of booking travels to the country; Cultural features of the nation; Effect of the congested traffic on the tourist trade of the country. INSETS: Bits of the Raj.;The Ford Endeavour..

Relates the author's tour to Canada's mini-province using a Honda Odyssey minivan. Minivan fatality rate; Gasoline costs; Way to save fuel; Places visited by the author; Tourist attractions. INSET: Prince Consorting..

Discusses the factors that contribute to the expensiveness of road bicycles. Cost of a bicycle; Comparison of building a Serotta bicycle frame and a Mercedes-Benz automobile; Remarks from racer Paul Levine on bicycles.

Presents a daily record of the author's three day tour of the Appalachian woods of Virginia driving a Toyota Prius hybrid model car. Overview of the car performance driving from Berkeley Springs to Buckhannon; Sites encountered driving from Buckhannon to Lewisburg; Reflection of the social contrasts between the state's country road scenery and its highways driving from Lewisburg to White Sulphur Springs. INSET: Appalachia..

Focuses on the disappearance of Vietnam-era planes that provide an effective proof-of-concept for the notion of stealth reconnaissance. Features of the YO-3A aircraft; Development of the QT-2, a Schweizer aircraft, to improve the effectiveness of the riverine interdiction craft of the Navy; Outcome of the operational test of the aircraft in Vietnam.

Presents several concept car designs. Description of the Concept 2096, a slug-like car designed by a team from Coventry University in England; Comparison of the concept car design between the 1950s and the 20th century; Features of the Autonomy prototype car from General Motors.

Presents an article about the restoration of a Porsche 911SC automobile. Details of the restoration of the engine of the classic sports car; Cost of the automobile restoration project.

Presents an excerpt from the book "The Gold Plated Porsche," by Stephan Wilkinson.

Describes the Symmetry aircraft created by aeronautical engineer Cory Bird. Features of the airplane; Reason for its creation; Estimated costs spent for its creation.

Narrates the experience of traveling in Colorado. Use of the RS 6 Supersedan from Audi by the traveler; Description of the places; Automobile specifications. INSETS: The Audi RS 6 Supersedan, by S.W.;Pit Stops, by S.W..

Describes the author's island hopping travel in Denmark aboard his Porsche Cayenne. Distance covered by the Marguerite Route; Copenhagen to Odense; Odense to Aalborg; Aalborg to Arhus; Arhus to Copenhagen.

Presents information on the Melmoth 2 homebuilt airplane created by Peter Garrison in the U.S. Background on the construction of the airplane; Information on Melmoth 1; Kinds of aircraft homebuilders.

Describes the author's travel in Germany and Austria while driving the Audi A4 Cabriolet automobile. Scenes observed from Salzburg to Regensburg; Sites of historic importance visited from Regensburg to Weimar. INSETS: The Audi A4 Cabriolet.;Pit Stops..

The ejection seat, introduced in 1942, is Exhibit A in the case for the value of escape technology. It is from ejection statistics that people learn how dangerous it is to fly military fighters and bombers. Approximately 1 out of every 10 seats manufactured since the end of World War II has been used. The vast majority of those chairs saved lives, and the success rate for most sophisticated ejection seats hovers somewhere north of 99.6 percent. British ejection-seat maker Martin-Baker claims 7,001 lives saved by mid-July 2003, 31 in 2003 alone.

Reports on driving through Sicily in the new Maserati Spyder automobile. View of the landscape from the automobile; Exploration of the mountaintop town of Enna; Patterns of the hillsides.

Chronicles an automobile trip along the coast of the Pacific Northwest. San Francisco to Garberville, California; Garberville, California to Gleneden Beach, Oregon; Gleneden Beach to Mount Hood, Oregon.

Describes the iDrive computer system in the BMW 745i automobile. Purpose of iDrive; Performance of the system during a test; Details on the driver accommodation of the automobile; Criticism on the system. INSETS: Jef Raskin's Rules for Interface Design;Heads Up: Civic at 3 O'Clock.

Highlights the tourist attractions in Kentucky for road travelers. Stops for travelers from Louisville to Bowling Green via southern Indiana; Bowling Green to Cave City via Barren River Lake and Mammoth Cave National Park; Cave City to Bardstown; Bardstown to Bourbon County. INSETS: The Chevy Corvette Hardtop.;Pit stops..

Reports on the author's travel through cities and towns of Tuscany, Italy, driving the Mercedes-Benz CL500 automobile. Includes Tuscan hill towns; Florence; Siena. INSETS: The Mercedes-Benz CL500.;Pit stops (lodging and dining places in northern Italy)..

Opinion. Presents highlights from an individual's five-day automobile drive from Melbourne, Australia, to Daylesford, Australia. Features of the automobile the individual drove, a BMW Z3 roadster; Attractions that were observed along the journey; Where the individual sought accommodation on the five-day road trip. INSETS: Pit stops;The BMW Z3 2.8.

Presents several companies involved in the boating industry. Information on Martin Gyorgy's Premium Parasail Boats; Boatbuilding business of John Yank; Services provided by Boatside Services International.

Presents information on a test-drive of the Bentley Azure convertible offered by the Rolls-Royce Motor Cars company from New Orleans. List of different places the test-drive ventured; Information on the individual stops; Cost of the convertible. INSET: The Bentley Azure.

Opinion. Relates the experiences of an individual while on a drive in San Francisco, California in a Porsche Boxster car. Details on the car; Features of the car; Details on the route taken by the individual; Other information on the trip. INSET: 1997 Porsche Boxster by S.W..

Presents tips on automobile driving for Americans traveling overseas. Right-of-way rules; Universal signals; Renting a car; Dealing with language barriers. INSETS: Best great drives car: The Lexus LS 400.;Most outrageous great drives car..;Trendiest great drives car: The Range Rover.;Least value for the money: The Ferrari 348 and the ..

Relates the author's drive around Wyoming using the Acura 3.5RL automobile. Cheyenne to Rawlins via Happy Jack Road and Medicine Bow; Rawlins to Cody through the Wind River Canyon; Cody to Gillette; Gillette back to Cheyenne via Devils Tower. INSET: 1996 Acura 3.5RL, by S.W..

Presents a recap of a five day test drive of the Aston Martin DB7 coupe automobile. Traveling to Le Mans, Cancale, Audrieu, Rouen from England. INSET: Aston Martin DB7..

Describes the author's sojourn to Louisiana by road on his Dodge Ram pickup truck. New Orleans to Houma via Grand Isle; Bayou tour from Atchafalaya basin backwater; Crowley to Lake Charles via the Creole nature trail; Lake Charles to Eunice; Eunice to Lafayette. INSET: Dodge Ram 1500 (features of truck)..

Reports on a test drive of the 1995 Lamborghini Diablo VT in driving roads in Arkansas. Car as a sex object; Springfield, Missouri, to Eureka Springs, Arkansas; Eureka Springs to Hot Springs; Hot Springs to Fort Smith via Oklahoma; Fort Smith to Branson, Missouri. INSET: The Lamborghini Diablo VT, by S.W..

Presents a description of Poland for travelers from the United States. Travel details; Accommodations; Price of accommodations. INSET: The Saab 900, by S.W..

Describes the author's car journey through Switzerland. Vevey to Visp; Visp to Lucerne; Lucerne to Interlaken; Interlaken to Basel; Basel to the Swiss Riviera. INSET: The Chrysler LHS, by S.W..

Discusses the author's personal account of a drive through Great Britain. Description of tourist attractions in Great Britain; Differences between driving in Great Britain and in the United States. INSET: The Volvo 850..

Gives details regarding the Soviet aircraft An-2. How the Aeroflot Antonov An-2 being described was one of the 14 An-2s belonging to a man named Bill Walker living just south of Hilton Head, South Carolina; Walker's hobby of collecting airplanes.

Describes bush pilots in Alaska. Competition for clients among bush pilots; Flying experiences of Frederick W. Scott Jr., Don Jonz and Harmon Helmericks; Problems with weather-reporting systems; Differences between veteran and novice flyers; Coping with harsh weather conditions.

Features the 1996 Professional Racing Outboard Performance Tour Formula One (F1) tunnel-boat race series in Bay City, Michigan. Greg Foster as `Madman Across the Water'; Engines of competing F1 boats; Other entries.

Presents information on being in the cockpit of a racing boat during a race. Feelings; Comments from racing drivers; Comparing of other boats; Impression of the race.

Focuses on the United States military use of Boston Whalers. Description of Boston Whaler; Boston Whaler's importance in Marine training; Outstanding performance of the Whaler; Discrimination of the Marines by the Army and Navy; Military Boston Whalers difference to standard version; Design and construction; Price including motors; Comments of Lieutenant Joe Seitz; Others.

Focuses on the training of Outboard Marine Corp. (OMC) test drivers for outboard engine testings conducted at the Ralph Evinrude Test Center in Florida. Background on the Ralph Evinrude Test Center; Endurance-test driver tests; Rough water handling technique; Key to being a good test driver; Kinds of failure to avoid; Requirements for graduation; OMC's plans for their engines.

Describes how visitors in scuba gear can dive among and feed dolphins and sharks at the Underwater Explorers Society in Port Lucaya, off Grand Bahama Island. How diver certification is obtained; The principles underwater instruction is built around; Professional Association of Dive Instructors (PADI); National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI); Cost of scuba equipment.

Focuses on unlimited hydroplanes, the fastest and most dangerous craft on the planet. Speed record for an unlimited hydroplane, set in 1979; Hydroplane builder Ron Jones Sr. and his son, J R; Number of active unlimited boats; Description of the August 1994 Seattle Seafair Texaco Gold Cup race.

Evaluates the Goodyear Blimp and Zodiac Inflatable boats. Bouyancy compartments of the Zodiac; Differences between blimps and balloons; Capacity of the Blimp; Top speed; Prices; Range in miles.

Discusses concern over the environmental hazards posed by electric boats. Efforts to manufacture a rechargeable battery; Lack of new-technology storage battery; Other drawbacks for electric launches.

Reports on dragboat racing in the United States. Controllability of the dragboats; Time records; Dangers of the sport.