Stories Collection

  1. SHORT BURSTS CLASSIC AIRCRAFT Accident occurs during Oshkosh Air Venture On 26 July, ...
  2. THE LITTLE-KNOWN STORY OF WORLD WAR TWO ACE GEORGE PREDDY'S INVOLVEMENT IN THE DEFENS...
  3. Target tug restoration After years of intensive restoration work, the Canadian Warpla...
  4. An uncomfortable privilege My orders were clear: "Shoot the Messerschmitt!" Thus on 2...
  5. Ira Cassius Kepford was born on 29 May 1919 in the town of Harvey, Illinois. Nickname...
  6. FG-ID BuNo 67070 was delivered from the Goodyear factory to the United States Navy A&...
  7. KEEP 'EM FLYING CONNIE MEMORIES Well, Air Classics has done it again! The article by ...
  8. BRAD HOOD Manager, Electrical, Instruments & Panels, Powerplant TOM WOOD Fabric, Powe...
  9. Originally from Waco, Texas, Brad Hood of Louisville, Kentucky, learned to fly with h...
  10. Flying Fortress gets a three-month reprieve courtesy of Sir Richard Boeing B-17G Sall...
  11. A 60TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF THE ALLIED VICTORY IN WORLD WAR TWO This is the fin...
  12. AS THE CREW OF A BADLY DAMAGED FLYING FORTRESS ATTEMPTED TO ABANDON THEIR STRICKEN AI...
  13. KEEP 'EM FLYING FAA GOONEY BIRDS I have been reading Air Classics since it first came...
  14. In the last issue, we incorrectly identified B-17 Fuddy Duddy pilot Linc Dexter as Li...
  15. CAF crash kills two pilots On 16 June, Commemorative Air Force Fairchild PT-26 Cornel...
  16. Exciting new restoration projects Air Assets International of Lafayette, Colorado, an...
  17. Kermit's second Grumman biplane amphibian At Wichita Air Services in Newton, Kansas, ...
  18. Repair work to start on first Nakajima fighter On 17 June, the four Nakajima Ki-43 Os...
  19. Crew pulls off skilled crash-landing On 13 June, Douglas R4D-8 N3906J operated by Air...
  20. Rebholz and Fossett recreate history On 3 July, pilots Steve Fossett and Mark Rebholz...
  21. FLYING AT MEDIUM ALTITUDE OVER GERMANY WAS HAZARDOUS ENOUGH, BUT ADDING ME 262 FIGHTE...
  22. Talented team assembled for Mike Brown's September Fury Following the withdrawal of P...
  23. In the last issue we inadvertantly left off the name of the author of "Fed's Flagship...
  24. CHUCK GREENHILL'S HAWKER FIGHTER IS BACK IN THE AIR On 14 July 1990, the pilot of the...
  25. A 60TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF THE ALLIED VICTORY IN WORLD WAR TWO Welcome to this...
  26. KEEP 'EM FLYING SHORT SOLENT As a member of the Western Aerospace Museum in Oakland, ...
  27. Fuddy Duddy handles the chores for the EAA's 2005 Allied Victory Tour Readers of this...
  28. OPERATING FROM PRIMITIVE AIRTRIPS, FLYING REVERSE LEND-LEASE SPITFIRES AGAINST THE EN...
  29. SHORT BURSTS CLASSIC AIRCRAFT NEWS BRIEFS FROM AROUND THE WORLD CLASSIC TRANSPORT KEE...
  30. WING SEPARATION MAY HAVE SERIOUS IMPLICATIONS On 9 May, North American SNJ-6 N453WA o...
  31. How did you get interested in aviation? It was in the early 1980s. My brother had a T...
  32. MISSIONS OVER GERMANY WERE NOT EASY FOR THE FORT CREWS OF THE BLOODY 100TH The number...
  33. OVERSHADOWED BY THE MORE NUMEROUS CATALINA, THE HUGE MARTIN MARINER PLAYED AN IMPORTA...
  34. During May, filming started in England for the World War One flying drama titled Flyb...
  35. DURING WORLD WAR TWO, PILOT MINING WAS SOMETIMES MOKE DANGEROUS THAN COMBAT In 1927, ...
  36. RECREATING THE FIRST TRUE FIGHTER AIRCRAFT - A MACHINE THAT VERY NEARLY CAUSED THE DE...
  37. On 20 April, about 1850 Pacific daylight time, Lockheed P-3B Orion N926AU/Tanker 26 o...
  38. France invades Oshkosh! In what has to be one of the most ambitious transatlantic und...
  39. HOWA GOOD LUCK SYMBOL HELPED SAVE THE CREW OF A ROYAL AIR FORCE LANCASTER Almost as o...
  40. FOR THIS USAAF B-25C CREW, THEIR FIRST NIGHT COMBAT MISSION WAS FRAUGHT WITH DANGER-F...
  41. In the tradition of many great families, the Lauderbacks have taken their passion and...
  42. In an unusual move, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vowed on 25 April to re...
  43. DECADES LATER, THE IDENTITY OF A P-47 PILOT THAT SAVED A STRICKEN B-24 FROM A PACK OF...
  44. SHORT BURSTS CLASSIC AIRCRAFT NEWS BRIEFS At Kissimmee, Florida, Stallion 51 has anno...
  45. VS-44A TO CATALINA Thanks for your many fine articles on vintage aircraft over so man...
  46. As this issue goes to press, three of the four Nakajima Oscars at the Texas Airplane ...
  47. The AOPA is warning that proposed changes to FAA airworthiness standards could make i...
  48. Little-known WWII atrocity is documented In October 1946, Col. Presley Rixey arrived ...
  49. WHAT'S BETTER THAN OWNING A DOUGLAS SKYRAIDER? HOW ABOUT OWNING TWO! With the Algeria...
  50. BUILDING THE LIGHTNING: AN INSIDE LOOK AT THE COMPLEX STRUCTURE OF THE P-38 / PART TH...
  51. THE KEITH RIDER R-2 WOULD ENJOY A LONG RACING CAREER The first racer designed by Keit...
  52. LOCKHEED'S ATTEMPT TO HAVALIZE THE LIGHTNING As with many other aircraft builders, Lo...
  53. BY JOE TOWLE, P-38 ENGINEERING TEST PILOT When an engine quits, reduce the power on t...
  54. IMPROVING THE P-38's PERFORMANCE Incredible as it may sound, until the installation o...
  55. AS WITH MANY OTHER ACES, RICHARD BONG WAS TO HAVE A SHORT LIFE When Maj. Bung came to...
  56. MANUFACTURED IN LIMITED NUMBEKS, THE P-38M WOULD HAVE MADE MINIMAL IMPACT ON THE CONC...
  57. FOR THE PILOTS OF THE LIGHTNING LANCERS, THE WAR WAS FOUGHT TO THE VERY BITTER END. I...
  58. Taigh Ramey informs us that Joe Davis has had a set of Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon bomb bay...
  59. We go for an unusual formation flight We recently had the opportunity to photograph t...
  60. Steven Craig's Beechcraft G17S The Beech Staggerwing is one of aviation's truly class...
  61. NEWS BRIEFS FROM AROUND THE WORLD On 19 March, the Commemorative Air Force's Goodyear...
  62. The Museum of Flight at Boeing Field has purchased the exact replica Wright Flyer fro...
  63. Work is progressing on what will become a unique flying exhibit After 32 years ground...
  64. On 7 March, Aero Vodochody L-39C N8098T was substantially damaged during a runway ove...
  65. XP-38 Advanced long-range interceptor with two Allison V-12 engines, propellers rotat...
  66. AS THE GLEANING YP-38s TOOK TO THE SKY, NEW AND DEADLY PROBLEMS WERE UNCOVERED IN THE...
  67. For the 2004 fire fighting season, two instrumented P-2s were brought back into opera...
  68. This growing museum is preserving vintage aviation "It became a family joke. When we ...
  69. LATEST IN AVIATION LITERATURE New books present aviation history in a colorful format...
  70. TWO-SEAT MUSTANG Really enjoyed the article on the TP-51C Mustang built by John Musza...
  71. THE AMAZlNG SAGA OF THE LOCKED P-38 LIGHTNING/PART ONE During the early 1930s, the Un...
  72. SAGA OF THE VOUGHT-SIKORSKY VS-44A During the mid-1930s, the idea of building really ...
  73. The magnificent XB-70 The XB-70 is one of the icons of modern aviation, which is curi...
  74. Historic bomber to be completely restored In a rather surprising move, the historic B...
  75. Tigercat! The very word brings an image of a ferocious prehistoric beast, ready to ri...
  76. THE AIR ZOO HONORS USAF PILOT MICHAEL SMOLEN Redhead, I'm taking my flight down. Two ...
  77. NASA's B-52B will became museum piece After almost 50 years of serving as a test and ...
  78. NEWS BRIEFS FROM AROUND THE WORLD Restored Bird Dog and donated Tiger Moth A nicely f...
  79. This classic biplane returned to the air after a ground-up rebuild "My father was an ...
  80. ANOTHER TP-51 After you article on Max Chapman's TP-51C was published in the January ...
  81. WE GO AIRBORNE WITH ONE OF WORLD WAR TWO'S MOST ELEGANT COMBAT AIRCRAFT Grumman and t...
  82. SHORT BURSTS CLASSIC AIRCRAFT Celebration at historic airport On 6-7 August, the city...
  83. SHORT BURSTS CLASSIC AIRCRAFT NEWS BRIEFS FROM AROUND THE WORLD Restorations moving f...
  84. Story of a nightfighter ace Thomas Geoffrey Pike joined the Royal Air Force on 17 Jan...
  85. Excellent photographic collection X-Planes Photo Scraphook compiled by Dennis R. Jenk...
  86. FLEET IDENTITY I noticed the photograph of the Fleet floatplane on page 62 of the Nov...
  87. The passing of a famous Warbird restoration firm A company was dissolved recently - s...
  88. EVEN THOUGH THE WAR IN EUROPE WAS OVER, THE FORTS KEPT FLYING AND THE MISSIONS WERE O...
  89. JAN KOPPEN DESCRIBES THE CURRENT PISTON-POWERED VINTAGE AIRLINER SCENE IN SOUTH AFRIC...
  90. NEW BOOKS FOR THE AVIATION ENTHUSIAST Pilot developed tactics to defeat the Japanese ...
  91. CARAVELLE SURVIVOR In response to your request for an update on the former Ohio Histo...
  92. WE VISIT THE YEARLY ANTIQUE AIRPLANE ASSOCIATION FLY-IN Unless you are a busy executi...
  93. HITLER'S WARRIOR Long-lived bomber fought until the end of the war During the Battle ...
  94. New museum will soon start restoration on this former television star The Tri-State W...
  95. WE GO ALOFT WITH A GLORIOUS SURVIVOR FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF BARNSTORMING Test flying ...
  96. NEW ITEMS FOR THE AVIATION ENTHUSIAST CHRONICLING A CLASSIC Massive book records the ...
  97. MAX CHAPMAN AND PACIFIC FIGHTER COMBINE FORCES TO CREATE AN ABSOLUTELY UNIQUE P-51 Al...
  98. REMEMBERING THE INVASION Recalling the men of the 77th Troop Corner Squadron What beg...
  99. Magnificent bent-wing bird takes to the air On 8 October, Brad Hood took Goodyear FG-...
  100. Accident claims a most unusual aircraft On 25 September, at 1523 Pacific daylight tim...
  101. Remembering a Wing Commander Australian-bom Donald Teale Saville joined the Royal Aus...
  102. What is the Forest Service thinking? The intellectually-challenged US Forest Service ...
  103. Flying classics added to growing collection Yanks Air Museum, Chino, California, rece...
  104. Another exciting classic airliner restoration has been underway at St. Paul, Minnesot...
  105. Excellent new book captures one the USAAF's most famous attacks CHECKLIST (ProQuest I...
  106. Aircraft crashes on takeoff from Midland Poor weather plagued the final day of the an...
  107. LSFM escapes any damage Just to the east of the Lone Star Flight Museum, Galveston, T...
  108. At the beginning of the 1920s, numerous small airplane companies were created. By the...
  109. "ONE OF MY MISSILES..." Just finished reading "One of My Missiles Has Fired!" in V40/...
  110. Over the past few years, we have all grown overly complacent to the good weather that...
  111. Unitswal restorations underway at El Paso On a recent trip to Et Paso International A...
  112. National Museum of Naval Aviation receives ex-Finnish Buffalo In a process that has t...
  113. Bureaucratic boondoggle continues On 12 August, the US Forest Service stated that it ...
  114. THIS LITTLE MENASCO-POWERED RACER HAD A VERY SHORT RACING CAREER Not related to the m...
  115. Well-known collector Don Brooks plans to bring a veteran back home Don Brooks, who ha...
  116. It could have been worse On Friday, 13 August, Hurricane Charley cut a wide swath thr...
  117. KEEP'EM FLYING! Navy backs away from a potentially embarrassing law suit Yielding to ...
  118. Rare propliner gets a new lease on life Last April when Carlos Gomez was helping get ...
  119. ONE MAN'S DEDICATION TO SAVING A CLASSIC AIRLINER Not many men would undertake the re...
  120. Air Spray loses an A-26 Long-time fire bomber Douglas A-26C USAAF 44-3 5661/C-FCBK wa...
  121. THE COLORS OF BATTLE Detailing the bombers of the 8th Air Force Battle Colors by Robe...
  122. SALUTE TO THE US AIR FORCE New from Cooper USA Since 1910, Cooper USA has been produc...
  123. Huge effort brings a great result This year, the European airshow scene has once agai...
  124. IT TOOK SOMETHING SPECIAL TO BE A SUPERFORTRESS CREW CHIEF To be a crew chief among a...
  125. LOCKHEED SIRIUS Quick note to say how much I enjoyed Marshall Wainwright's article "C...
  126. Interesting Arizona project From a distance, the Spitfire looks quite convincing, but...
  127. LAST OF THE LINE: WE FLY WITH THE WORLD'S ONLY SEAFIRE FR.47 With the end of the seco...
  128. Rebuilding a DC-6B to better-than-new condition Red Bull, makers of the popular energ...
  129. Storing another World War Two hoax Way back in August 1990, Flying Tiger ace R.T. Smi...
  130. YEAR BEFORE HIS HISTORIC MOON LANDING, NEIL ARMSTRONG WAS A NASA TEST PILOT The Boein...
  131. OWLS HEAD UPDATE We were thrilled to see Gilles Auliard's fine article on the Owls He...
  132. Years of hard work lead to a first flight On 22 june, the first flight of a Flug Werk...
  133. KEEPING THE PEACE THE OLD FASHONED WAY WITH VINTAGE B-52 BOMBERS Emerging from the co...
  134. Hometown racer The city of Springfield, Massachusetts, is keeping the memory of the a...
  135. Long-time fire bomber pilot saved many historic airframes Calvin J. Butler was horn o...
  136. Daniel Webster College and the CoUings Foundation combine forces Mark your calendar n...
  137. WWII fighter will eventually join airshow circuit The Collings Foundation of Stow, Ma...
  138. XP-47-RE: Republic project that did not pass beyond initial design stage. It had a 11...
  139. THE BIGGEST SINGLE-SEAT COMBAT AIRCRAFT OF WORLD WAR TWO, AND ONE OF THE BEST, THE P-...
  140. How you can aid Sally B As we have discussed many times in this column, keeping any f...
  141. PORTRAIT OF A MAVERICK Highlighting the importance of Glenn Curtiss Glenn Curtiss was...
  142. On 13 September 1938, Vultee flew an updated version of their A-19 which was designat...
  143. ANATOMY OF A MISSION NEW BOOKS FOR THE AVIATION ENTHUSIAST Detailing one day in the E...
  144. THESE INNOVATIVE LITTLE RACERS NEVER HAD A CHANCE TO FULLY PROVE THEMSELVES During th...
  145. Western classic will head to the Grand Canyon At The Air Museum Planes of Fame, John ...
  146. ALTHOUGT NOT LIVING UP TO ITS ORIGINAL CONCEPT AS A HIGH-ALTITUDE INTERCEPTOR, THE BE...
  147. RECALLING A US NAVY SKYMASTER FLIGHT THAT WENT TERRIBLY WRONG The 19th of January 195...
  148. Ross Andersen perishes in crash of homebuilt On 11 December 2003, Ross Anderson, pres...
  149. COLLECTING VINTAGE AIRLINE POSTERS PART TWO Vintage airline posters were not meant to...
  150. German jet fighter back flying On 29 June, the Me 262 Project's first Stormbird was b...
  151. Former Soviet Bloc fighter will operate out of Castle AFB In an extremely generous ge...
  152. How the Luftwaffe built its bomber force Kampfflieger, Bombers of the Luftwaffe 1933-...
  153. The Air Museum honors a famous ace The Air Museum Planes of Fame's veteran P-51D N544...
  154. Classic fighters over Castle The former Castle AFB in California's central valley is ...
  155. Museum gets last purpose-built USAF interceptor During June, a Convair F-106B Delta D...
  156. As mentioned in the last issue, P-51D s/n 4473420 ZK-PLI has been imported from New Z...
  157. New book uncovers previously undisclosed information On The Edge by Bill Norton (Spec...
  158. THE AMAZING JOURNEY OF AN AIRACOBRA NAMED BROOKLYN BUM Bell P-39Q-6-BE USAAF s/n 42-1...
  159. Guide to a complex subject For years, aviation historians and modelers have struggled...
  160. WIEN NORSEMAN I was thrilled to see the photograph of the Wien UC-64 Norseman on the ...
  161. German aircraft on the Eastern Front Defeat in North Africa and the disastrous loss o...
  162. THE STRANGE TALE OF THE ONLY USAAF PILOT TO DESERT TO THE GERMANS Most human beings a...
  163. NEW BOOKS FOR THE AVIATION ENTHUSIAST Recording B-17 combat missions Return To Base b...
  164. Camarillo Connie becomes Star of Switzerland "I have spent 23 years of my life with t...
  165. Rare fighter now on display America's World War One fighter of choice and the type of...
  166. IT'S AN EAGLEROCK The great photo at the bottom of page 46 in the May issue illustrat...
  167. Detailed look at an important American warplane Herk: Hero of the Skies by Joseph E. ...
  168. THE OWLS HEAD TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM IS HOME TO A NUMBER OF FLYING RARITIES A treasure...
  169. HOW A YOUNG AIR NATIONAL GUARD LIEUTENANT SET A MOST UNUSUAL RECORD The day, 21 May 1...
  170. COLLECTING VINTAGE AIRLINE POSTERS Not all that long ago, travel by airliner was adve...
  171. IN MEMORIAM: DAREN BANFIELD 1966-2004. As this article was being prepared for press, ...
  172. Airborne in a Lockheed Lightning Flora Belle Reese, 79, grew up in Oklahoma as a prea...
  173. GossHawk finishes Doug Champlin's Fw 190D-13 "It was really a learning experience," s...
  174. NEW PRODUCTS FOR THE AVIATION ENTHUSIAST Excellent study of a little-documented era R...
  175. THE LONE STAR FLIGHT MUSEUM'S BOEING B-I7G HAS JUST EMERGED FROM A COMPLETE REPAINT. ...
  176. Repairs are already well underway It was late afternoon on 5 May and the sky over Van...
  177. Rare fighter gets closer to flying The Fighter Collection's ex-Armee de l'Air Curtiss...
  178. Donald Hinz dies in the P-51C On 29 May, aircraft of the Commemorative Air Force were...
  179. Volume Three in an excellent series If its wasn't for author Lou Thole, the majority ...
  180. AT THE HEIGHT OF THE COLD WAR, THE UNTHINKABLE HAPPENED AN AMERICAN FIGHTER SHOT DOWN...
  181. WWII trainers finished in Japanese markings During April, aerial film work was being ...
  182. WARBIRDS OVER WANAKA IS HELD ON NEW ZEALAND'S SOUTH ISLAND - THE SITE OF MUCH FILMING...
  183. Soviet's threat aimed at the Western Allies The Second World War had hardly ended whe...
  184. THE WRECKAGE OF A LOCKHEED LIGHTNING FLOWN BY A FAMOUS AVIATOR/AUTHOR HAS BEEN DISCOV...
  185. FM-2 is down but not out On 10 April, Howard Pardue was landing at Burnet, Texas, for...
  186. CONSTELLATION 612 I enjoyed the article "Constellation Survivors" in the April issue....
  187. The Fighter Collection brings a nearly extinct aircraft back to life Visitors to the ...
  188. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF A YOUNG GREEK IMMIGRANT P-47 THUNDERBOLT PILOT DURING WORLD WAR...
  189. WITH ITS SERIES OF WOODEN AIRCRAFT, LOCKHEED BEGAN BLAZING A RECORD-SETTING TRAIL IN ...
  190. Expansion at The Air Museum allows for new displays Recent hangar expansion at The Ai...
  191. THE 1ST AERO SQUADRON'S AIR OPERATIONS IN SUPPORT OF THE ARMY'S 1916 PUNITIVE EXPEDIT...
  192. Wreckage found off of Palau A United States Army Air Force Consolidated B-24 Liberato...
  193. Latest news from WestPac Restorations We have been informed by Bill Klaers of WestPac...
  194. Co-pilot of Boeing B-29 Bockscar Fred Olivi, who was the co-pilot on the B-29 that dr...
  195. Rare bird to fly in near future Fighter Rebuilders is getting close to completed the ...
  196. THE SAGA OF A HISTORIC FLYING FORTRESS THAT DID NOT SURVIVE DUE TO BUREAUCRATIC SHORT...
  197. After 30 years on the ground, a classic is back flying After some 30 years of sitting...
  198. Aircraft repaired and on its way back home Aerial filming involving the Hawkins & Pow...
  199. Lost flying example should be a popular airshow performer Certainly one of the strang...