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Stories Collection

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