Airport and storage?

Is it possible to attach an external hard drive (via USB) to an airport and access the information on it? And better yet, use it with time machine?
The website talks of nothing but using that USB port with printers, so i am not sure if it will work. However, my feeling is that a USB port is a USB port.

Is it possible to attach an external hard drive (via USB) to an airport and access the information on it?
Not with an AirPort Express (AX). But this is a feature of the square 802.11b/g/n AirPort Extreme base station (AEBS).
And better yet, use it with time machine?
Officially Time Machine only works with drives connected to your Mac via FireWire or USB. Some threads in the "AirPort Extreme (802.11n)" discussion area have found a way to make it work. And someone posted this solution:
To get Time Machine to see network drives, open Terminal and type in:
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes -bool  true

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