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  1. NEW BOOKS FOR THE AVIATION ENTHUSIAST Fascinating insight into an unusual Luftwaffe o...
  2. THE WORLD WAR TWO COMBAT HISTORY OF VOUGHT'S OS2U KINGFISHER During World War Two, Vo...
  3. United States Airpower Musettm acquires four jets Well-known Warbird collector David ...
  4. In-depth look at intriguing units On Special Missions - The Luftwaffe's Research and ...
  5. Why does the US Navy maintain such an unreasonable policy? Adding yet another embarra...
  6. New DVD shows just what it takes B-17 Flying Legend is a new DVD that is devoted to r...
  7. Kermit Weeks offers one of his spare B-29s Kermit Weeks is offering for sale, through...
  8. ON THE 60th ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY, WE EXAMINE AERIAL OPERATIONS ON 5/6 JUNE 1944 PART ...
  9. Vintage Fighters' Corsair project near s flight after a five year restoration Brad Ho...
  10. PART ONE THE 1ST AERO SQUADRON'S AIR OPERATIONS IN SUPPORT OF THE ARMY'S 1916 PUNITIV...
  11. Second N-3PB found in Iceland Readers probably remember how a rare Northrop N-3PB was...
  12. ONCE THE MOST PROLIFIC OF BASIC TRAINING AIRCRAFT, THE VULTER BT-13 IS NOW A RARE ITE...
  13. Jon Vesley's Mustang is rapidly progressing Mike VadeBonCouer and Dave Young at Midwe...
  14. Celebrating 50 years of Thunderbirds history We Rode The Thunder (M.T. Publishing Co....
  15. KEEP 'EM FLYING FAIRCHILD C-119 I flew the One-Nineteen for eleven years and 3000-hr ...
  16. DOCTOR MICHAEL SCHLOSS' DOUGLAS SKYRAIDER HONORS THE HEROES OF THE VIETNAM WAR Under ...
  17. Norsemen restoration The British Columbia Aviation Museum toiled for twelve years to ...
  18. Ultimate aviation enthusiast records his memories Boardman C. Reed has been described...
  19. Mirroring today's events in fiction It's not often we review aviation fiction, but Fi...
  20. Rare variant of a British design The British Columbia Aviation Museum has combined a ...
  21. Rare fighter part of trade Remember the virtually intact Finnish Air Force Brewster B...
  22. NEW BOOKS FOR THE AVIATION ENTHUSIAST How America built an important air base before ...
  23. Aerial action over Chino on 15-16 May Classic vintage aircraft, Warbirds and modern j...
  24. ON THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY, WE EXAMINE AERIAL OPERATIONS ON 5/6 JUNE 1944 Durin...
  25. WE ATTEND THE USAF THUNDERBIRDS' GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY AIRSHOW. PHOTOGRAPHER JIM LARSEN ...
  26. Fascinating WWII aircraft for sale John Bell, who died in a light aircraft crash in A...
  27. RECALLING A GLAMOROUS ERA IN AMERICAN COMMERCIAL AVIATION They were big, luxurious an...
  28. Add me to the list of folks rushing in with a correction to the PB-2A caption on page...
  29. FROM WKECK TO KACEK, THE INCREDIBLE KEBIKTHOF MISS AMERICA The familiar red, white, a...
  30. COMPREHENSIVE SURVEY OF THE WORLD'S SUKVIVING LOCKHEED CONSTELLATIONS Arguably the mo...
  31. Example of a World War One J-1 trainer Although the Curtiss JN-4 Jenny achieved much ...
  32. SUGARLAND MUSTANGS Enjoyed reading the article on Chris Woods' Mustang February in th...
  33. Waco CG-4A underway at Yanks One of the most unusual projects at Yanks Air Museum is ...
  34. One long-term restoration makes significant progress while another vintage aircraft i...
  35. Rare Curtiss aircraft at Yanks Yanks Air Museum recently acquired a Curtiss JN-4 Jenn...
  36. DISASTER AND HEROISM AWAITED THE CREWS Of DOUGLAS DAUNTLESSES ARRIVING OVEK PEAKL HAK...
  37. Examination of a strategic jet bomber that was once a very real threat Myasishchev M-...
  38. Re-styled, expanded Air Zoo The Air Zoo in Kalamazoo, Michigan, will pay tribute to t...
  39. Restoration well on its way to completion Yanks Air Museum, Chino, California, probab...
  40. UNIQUE SOUVENIR OF A FAMOUS LOCKHEED VEGA It was a beautiful sunshine-filled Saturday...
  41. Excellent volume captures a harrowing period of history Pacific Legacy - Image and Me...
  42. WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO SEKVE IN BRITAIN'S ROYAL OBSERVER CORPS DURING WORLU WAR TWO I ha...
  43. AN AMAZNG STRING OF SUB-STANDARD FIGHTER AIRCRAFT HELPED PUT THE ONCE-DOMIHANT CURTKi...
  44. NEW BOOKS FOR THE AVIATION ENTHUSIAST New material on very unusual flying machines Fo...
  45. Largest collection of rare survivors "It's one of the best goddamn airplanes I have e...
  46. This B-25 deserves a better fate Milo Peltzer reports that North American B-25J Mitch...
  47. Important Cold War survivor The Convair F-102 Delta Dagger was the USAF's first delta...
  48. Significant collection of Lockheed PV-2s was offered for sale on E-Bay The last opera...
  49. A MEMORIAL TO THE AMERICAN VOLUNTEER GROUP On 11 November 2003, a memorial honoring t...
  50. ANEPIC JOUKNEY IN A VINTAGE TRANiPORT IS REQUIRED FOR THE REMAKE OF A CLASSIC AVIATIO...
  51. Your issue containing the article "We Fought With What We Had" regarding the P-40 rec...
  52. I enjoyed the article on the Commemorative Air Force's Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver in th...
  53. Attractive history of the Presidents' planes No other form of transportation has chan...
  54. THE LEAST-KNOWN DOUGLAS TRANSPORT SAW A PRODUCTION RUN OF juST A DOZEN AIRCRAFT-YET T...
  55. NEW RESTORATION HONORS A WORLD WAR TWO USAAF ACE This past September, we had the good...
  56. NEW ITEMS FOR THE AVIATION ENTHUSIAST Second volume on Nazi fighter Following years o...
  57. Aircraft owes survival to famed race car driver Drivers heading down Interstate 75 th...
  58. Detailing the Fairchild-Republic A-10A The Fairchild-Republic A-10A Warthog is an ugl...
  59. THE CAREER OF GREAT WAR ACE WILLIAM BARKER AND THE SOPWITH CAMEL BEING BUILT BY THE K...
  60. A friend recently gave me a copy of V39/N2 which included the article "Down Over the ...
  61. After the disastrous accident that grounded the world's only flying Blenheim, a plan ...
  62. Heroes of the Great War Echoes of Eagles by Charles Woolley with Bill Crawford (Dutto...
  63. Belly landing does not stop this F4U-5 Gary Norvillc, one of the great guys in vintag...
  64. PBY-5A being rebuilt for unique mission Famed oceanographic researcher Robert Ballard...
  65. The Me 262 Project has been making some significant progress on their aircraft. The f...
  66. AVIATION NATION HAS BIG PLANS FOR UNLIMITED RACING Can Unlimited Class air racing sup...
  67. Vibrator becomes a racer Back in the late 1960s when Steward-Davis at Long Beach, Cal...
  68. Mike Vadeboncouer and crew are busy on several important projects Located at Danville...
  69. The artisans at Sky Harbour Refinishers have been busy as detailed by James P. Church...
  70. Jack Roush's Mustang honors Chuck Yeager Jack Roush's P-51D USAAF s/n 44-74230 N51CY ...
  71. A MENTION IN AIR CLASSICS BRINGS BACK MEMORIES OF A TERRIFYING WORLD WAK TWO ACCIDENT...
  72. Interesting projects in Indiana Stars and Bars Aircraft is busy at work restoring a M...
  73. THE CAREER OF GREAT WAR ACE WILLIAM BARKER AND THE SOPWITH CAMEL BEING BUILT BY THE K...
  74. SAAB DOUBLE-DELTA I enjoyed the extensive coverage on the Reno Air Races in the Decem...
  75. Difficult rebuild is passing major hurdles "Thanks to Aero Trader, we now have two ne...
  76. Major new addition to Seattle Museum of Flight The outer structure of the new Persona...
  77. Attractive photo volume on the mighty X-15 The NAA X-15 was one of America's most suc...
  78. History of USN Libs in the UK The awkwardly titled US Navy PB4V-1 (B-24) Liberator Sq...
  79. New reference on German aircraft German Aircraft Cockpits 1911-1970 by Peter W. Cohau...
  80. Action over the Western Desert Messerschmitt Roulette by Wing Commander Geoffrey Morl...
  81. BEAUTIFUL CONSTELLATION Enjoyed your two-part 60th anniversary article on the Lockhee...
  82. Accident at Houston claims life of pilot On 18 October, approximately 1817 central da...
  83. Excellent new book on World War Two camouflage Since the collapse of the Soviet Union...
  84. Fighter Rebuilders nears completion on P-39 Fighter Rebuilders is making great progre...
  85. Well-known Warbird pilot dies in T-28 crash Long-time Warbird pilot John Herlihy died...
  86. Portraying Great War German aces For the first time in 85 years, the famous Sanke pos...
  87. THE HELLCAT PILOTS OF VF-2 ON PATROL OVER A DEFEATED JAPAN SOON LEARNED THAT A NUMBER...
  88. CAF project needs major funding The Southern California Wing of the Commemorative Air...
  89. Salute to the fabulous Phantom II Fighter, mud-mover, photo ship, nuclear bomber, shi...
  90. Canadian collector acquires Hurricane and Bf 109E During October, Canadian Warbird en...
  91. Examining the Fw 19OD The rather cumbersomely titled Focke-Wulf Fw 190 "Long Nose" - ...
  92. Restoration underway in Minnesota On 26 june 2002, well-known aircraft restorer Buzz ...
  93. Championed museum for America's top ace Margorie Bong Drucker, widow of WWII ace Rich...
  94. Flying restoration is making excellent progress At Anoka, Minnesota, C&P Aviation is ...
  95. Air race fans at Reno are knowledgeable - almost any grandstand spectator will know p...
  96. Passing of a famed aircraft builder On 24 September, one of the icons of vintage raci...
  97. NEWITEMS FOK THE AVIATION ENTHUSIAST American aces of the Creat War The past few year...
  98. HIGH-PERFORMANCE JET FIGHTER MAKES ITS FIRST AIRSHOW APPEARANCE Skip Holm was busy ma...
  99. I found the photograph of the P-40 wreck on page 28 of the October issue very interes...
  100. I noticed your request for additional information, on Frank Fuller's Seversky racer i...
  101. F4U-5 already receiving repairs On 24 September, Dale Snodgrass was flying F4U-5NL Bu...
  102. Compared to the Unlimiteds parked around it, the racer looked small - real small. Pai...
  103. Upset in the desert over Reno! Corsair shot down by a Piper L-4 and a Beech Staggerwi...
  104. THE STORY OF A FAMOUS AMERICAN WHO WENT TO BRITAIN TO FIGHT THE NAZIS IN THE BATTLE O...
  105. Individual initiative created a powerful weapon During the 1920s and 1930s, Admiral J...
  106. DOUGLAS B-66 I recently re-read my copy of Air Classics for March 2003 and noted in t...
  107. WE VISIT THE YANKEE AIR FORCE AND THEIR ANNUAL WARBIRD AIR DISPLAY Sometimes, when yo...
  108. Investigation leads to arrest The USAF has formed a blue-ribbon panel to review pract...
  109. WE FLY A FIRE SUPPRESSION MISSION WITH THE SUPER SCOOPERS FROM QUEBEC The year of 200...
  110. NEW ITEMS FOR THE AVIATION ENTHUSIAST Combat recon and the invasion of Germany With t...
  111. New claims promote interest but could be doubtful Researchers combing through million...
  112. CHARLIE MALLORY PERFORMED HIS ASSIGNED DUTIES WITH HEROISM BUT HIS COMMANDING OFFICER...
  113. Accident at Duxford claims last airworthy example On 19 August, Bristol Blenheim Mk. ...
  114. ALTHOUGH EXTREMELY ADVANCED FOR ITS DAY, THIS RACER FAILED IN ITS PRIMARY MISSION Air...
  115. AFTER 40 YEARS & 40,000 MAN-HOURS, AN INCREDIBLY RARE SIKORSKY S-39 AMPHIBIAN HAS ONC...
  116. Historic prototype for permanent preservation The Boeing 707, which first flew in 195...
  117. Stunning turn of events concerns the ex-CAF Twin Mustang The USAF Museum has announce...
  118. Super Constellation fights for survival The restoration of the Air Mobility Command M...
  119. In relatively good condition, this could be another flyer Rarely photographed Lockhee...
  120. A nearly four-year battle has ended with a divided verdict At the 1999 Oshkosh show, ...
  121. Heroic re-restoration gets the last Boeing 307 airborne The last of ten Boeing 307 St...
  122. PHOTOGRAPHS ILLUSTRATING THE INCREDIBLE DIVERSITY OF AVIATION HISTORY After the First...
  123. WELCOME TO OUR NEW OCCASIONAL SERIES ON MILITARY AIRCKAFT BETWEEN I WORLD WAR ONE AND...
  124. Crash claims life of pilot Jim Wright At approximately 6:30 pm, 4 August, the Hughes ...
  125. New England Air Museum dedicates its Superfortress The NEAM, located at Bradley Inter...
  126. NEW ITEMS FOR THE AVIATION ENTHUSIAST With the 100th anniversary of manned flight, th...
  127. CIVILIANIZED SEVERSKY P-35 MADE AN IDEAL BEHDIX RACER If you wanted to win the Bendix...
  128. Dramatic crash questions British airshow safety On 12 July, the Royal Naval Historic ...
  129. Will the lawyers be the only winners? Warbird buff Don Brooks is attempting to recove...
  130. Remembering history with a vintage biplane The legendary Boeing Stearman Model 75 bip...
  131. Crash claims one of the CAF's rarest Warbirds On 10 July at approximately 1310 Mounta...
  132. THE SAGA OF B-17G TAIL NO. 164 AND ITS NEW CREW Twentieth of January 1945, Meeks Fiel...
  133. World War Two action over Europe Latest in Schiffer's growing series of unit historie...
  134. VINTAGE ADVERTISEMENTS COURTESY SCOTT BLOOM ALTHOUGH BASICALLY OBSOLETE AT ITS TIME O...
  135. RELYING ON EARLIER TECHNOLOGY, THIS ATTEMPT TO CAPTURE THE POST-WAR LIGHTPLANE MARKET...
  136. CURTISS P-36 Air Classics' articles on vintage aircraft are always extremely interest...
  137. For the first time, the purse is $1,000,000 Racing pilots are preparing for the 40th ...
  138. Interesting new program in Britain Would you like to acquire the necessary skills to ...
  139. WE EXAMINE THE LAST UNLIMITED RACER BUILT FOR THE PRE-WAR CLEVELAND NATIONAL AIR RACE...
  140. WE VISIT WITH TERRY BLAND AND THE DAGO RED UNLIMITED AIR RACING TEAM In recent years,...
  141. NO PILOT'S NOTES SURVIVE FOR THE HAWKER NIMROD SHIPBORNE FIGHTER, SO THE AUTHOR FACED...
  142. A quick trip reveals the intensity of Warbird operations On 14 June, George Hulett fi...
  143. WE VISIT THE FABULOUS FANTASY OF FLIGHT IN POLK CITY, FLORIDA, AND PHOTOGRAPH SOME OF...
  144. End of an era in commercial aviation On 12 June, an Air France Concorde supersonic pa...
  145. Sub-hunting Gooney Bird will become a flying classroom When most of the world was boy...
  146. AS RENO PREPARES FOR ITS 40TH GATHERING OF UNLIMITED AIR RACERS, WE REVISIT THE ROOTS...
  147. Last US Navy Skyhawk unit retires its aircraft The Glenn L. Martin Aviation Museum ha...
  148. THE US NAVY'S ENLISTED COMBAT AIRCREWMEN HAVE FINALLY BEEN RECOGNIZED In spite of a l...
  149. FORD TRI-MOTOR The article "The Tri-Motor That Would Not Die" was most informative. T...
  150. Bruce Lockwood delivers completed aircraft to new owner On 12 June, Bruce Lockwood de...
  151. Hot -rod air racer becomes a two-seater In a move that surprised many air racing enth...
  152. NOSE ART CARRIED BY AMERICAN COMBAT AIRCRAFT DURING WWII BECAME A UNIQUE SEGMENT OF F...
  153. THROUGH TRIALS OF FIRE ANO ICE, THIS HISTORIC FORD TRI-MOTOR KEPT COMING BACK TO FLY ...
  154. Extensive restoration back to flying condition is complete Jack Kosko's TBM-3 restora...
  155. FURTHER SELECTION OF AERONAUTICAL PHOTOGRAPHS ILLUSTRATING THE INCREDIBLE DIVERSITY O...
  156. Rare TF-51D to be temporarily based in England North American TF-51D Mustang N20TF ar...
  157. NEW ITEMS FOR THE AVIATION ENTHUSIAST Excellent new reference on Operation Barbarossa...
  158. AN INTERESTING COLLECTION OF GERMAN AIRCRAFT CAPTURED BY AMERICAN FORCES AT THE END O...
  159. Modified TT-1 is owned by Mike Coutches In the hope of capturing a large Navy contrac...
  160. How did you get interested in aviation? Through my father, John Lane. He flew Lightni...
  161. Stephen Grey puts on Bearcat aerobatic display The weekend of 17/18 May saw a very su...
  162. PIPER'S POST-WAR FOUR-SEATER WAS ALMOST PREDESTINED FOR FAILURE Even before the atomi...
  163. NWM MUSEUM HUEYS This is a letter to let readers know about two restoration projects ...
  164. In action with the 356th Fighter Group Schiffer continues its program of printing det...
  165. TFC P-38 arrives at Fighter Rebuilders As we reported in last month's issue, Lockheed...
  166. Famed air racer states he is absolutely, positively out of air racing To many air rac...
  167. Inside the former enemy's Cold War bombers With the end of World War Two and the dawn...
  168. Insurance issues nearly ground triple-tail classic The threat of a near doubling of t...
  169. AIRBOKNE WITH A MAGNIFICENTLY RESTORED MUSTANG THAT HONORS A WORLD WAR TWO TACTICAL R...
  170. Clyde Bennet East was born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, on 19 July 1921. As a yo...
  171. STEVE WITTMAN CREATED THE SMALLEST AIRFRAME THAT HE COULD WRAP AROUND A MASSIVE CURTI...
  172. NEW ITEMS FOK THE AVIATION ENTHUSIAST Aviation book as an art form Back in 1991, Bria...
  173. WE FLY WITH TOM WOOD'S IMMACULATE NORTH AMERICAN F-86F ROARING OUT OF THE HEAT HAZE C...
  174. I thought I would share some family history with you and your readers. My dad, Nick, ...
  175. Rare post-war USN aircraft to go on display in new CAF hangar Towards the end of Worl...
  176. In 1943, 42 MARTIN PBM-3 MARINERS WERE ALLOCATED TO GREAT BRITAIN'S ROYAL AIR FORCE U...
  177. THIS STINSON SM-I DETROITER IS A RARE SURVIVOR FROM THE ERA OF LONG-DISTANCE RECORD F...
  178. Vintage Douglas airliner prepared for fire season Readers of this magazine are well-a...
  179. APPROACHING THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF POWERED FLIGHT, WE PRESENT A PICTORIAL SALUTE TO...
  180. Second Me 262 on its gear Significant progress has been made toward returning White 1...
  181. The Fighter Collection acquires a P-38 Britain's The Fighter Collection, based at his...
  182. THE SAGA OF THE CURTISS P-36/HAWK 75 THE FIGHTER THAT OPERATED WITH ALLIED AND AXIS F...
  183. BRINGING THE LAST SURVIVING AMERICAN AIRLINES CONVAIR FLAGSHIP BACK TO LIFE - AND YOU...
  184. Tom Reilly to return another classic to the air The Liberty Foundation, Inc., founded...
  185. Last of the Blackbirds Two unique NASA aircraft left Edwards AFB on 24 March as truck...
  186. Pilot pulls off skilled belly-landing Commemorative Air Force pilot Ollie Crawford ma...
  187. Mosquito under long-term restoration in Australia De Havilland DH-98 Mosquito PR Mk. ...
  188. We sat at the north end of the strip for several minutes. By "we," I mean yours truly...
  189. After removing parts the aircraft was, unfortunately, broken up On 20 March, one of o...
  190. Aviation is a small world, sometimes a very small world. It was 19 March and I was in...
  191. The 30th started a basketball team at Gosselies. Going up into the attic of the conve...
  192. GREAT WAR ITALIAN ACES Massive volume provides much new material Over the past few ye...
  193. The year 2003 is significant for one of North America's premier aviation awards. Cele...
  194. American's innovative president C.R. Smith and his chief engineer William Littlewood ...
  195. After a discouraging set-back from Britain's Heritage Lottery program, things are loo...
  196. MESSERSCHMITT MEMORABILIA Enjoyed your article on the Me 262 Project and the sidebar ...
  197. Dave Gross is making excellent progress returning a rare Fw 190D to flying condition ...
  198. Returned home, this historic warrior is for sale Next to Brazil, Peru operated the la...
  199. Rare amphibian recalls a pioneering era Designed specifically for use on Royal Austra...