Flight Journal Magazine - May - June 2024
Flight Journal Magazine - May - June 2024
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In this issue
FEATURES: Aerial Assault - The day Fortress Europe fell, Little Friends Over the Beach - The fighters get down and dirty, Pilot’s View - D-Day from the cockpit, Impossible Target - Why did so many paratroopers miss the drop zone on D-Day?, Shot Down Over Normandy! - RAF Spitfire pilot survives D-Day invasion, Silent Missions - The glider gang behind the lines
Scourge of the Allied Fighters
IT HAD TO BE THE MOST HELPLESS FEELING in the world: you're at 25,000 feet over Europe knowing that your primary function is to drop bombs-or flying escort for the bombers while being a slow-moving target for some of the world's finest shooters. However, you have John Browning's marvelous .50 caliber invention to give some degree of protection. Unfortunately, you're absolutely helpless against flak. Piloting and gunnery skills play no role in a game where sheer chance makes life and death decisions. For that reason, the Krupp 88 mm Flak 18/36/37 AA cannon could be considered WW II's ultimate stealth fighter. You never saw it coming.
3 mins
ZERO MYTH, MYSTERY, AND FACT
A test pilot compares the A6M5 Zero to U.S. fighters
10+ mins
Fw 190 STURMBÖCKE
The Luftwaffe's \"Battering Rams\" against the USAAF heavy bombers
10+ mins
American BEAUTY
\"Forgotten Fifteenth\" top-scoring Mustang ace John J. Voll
10+ mins
BANSHEE WAIL!
Flying Skulls over Burma
10+ mins
KILLER CORSAIR
Albert Wells, Death Rattlers Ace
10+ mins
BACKSTREET BRAWLER
A young man, his Hurricane and the Battle of Britain
10+ mins
Still Flying After All These Years
One of the oldest airworthy J-3 Cubs
3 mins
NOORDUYN NORSEMAN
Canada's rugged, fabric-covered workhorse
8 mins
A good landing is one you can walk away from
NO, THIS IS NOT A SCENE FROM A MOVIE where the hero staggers away from a \"good landing\" on Mindoro, Philippine Islands, after being shot down by a Japanese Zero.
1 min
General Curtis LeMay
Strategic Air Command Creator & Commander
8 mins
Flying the MESSERSCHMITT ME 109
Thrilling tales of aerial supremacy
4 mins
Firepower
AS AN EVOLVING WEAPONS PLATFORM, the Boeing B-17 underwent numerous changes during its production run to increase its survivability over deadly Axis-held skies.
1 min
Stinson AT-19
The Reliant goes to war
4 mins
EJECTING FROM A HAWKER HUNTER
Roderick Kurtz punches out after an encounter with a USAF F-35
10+ mins
Adventures in the WAIRAPA WILD CAT
A New Zealand P-40 warrior racks up the kills
10 mins
Forgiveness - Lt. Gen. Richard Reynolds on crashing a $379 million B-1 prototype
By the time Lieutenant General Richard Reynolds retired from the USAF in 2005, he’d had a distinguished 34-year career as a B-52 pilot, an Air Force test pilot with experience flying 72 different aircraft types, a B-2 system program office director, a commander of the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards AFB, and more.
10 mins
BA Swallow - Slab-sided floater
The British Aircraft (BA) Swallow originated in Germany in 1927 as the Klemm L.25, a tandem two-seat, low-wing, all-wood monoplane. Klemm first exported to Britain in March 1929 and started a small \"flood.\"
2 mins
FLYING THE ROC!
Stratolaunch test pilot Evan Thomas on flying the world's largest operational airplane
10 mins
PAYBACK - B-25s settle the score on the Rising Sun
As I sat silently in my B-25-shrewdly named \"Fickle Finger of Fate\"awaiting the signal from the Navy deckhand to start my engines, I thought long and hard about how I ended up here and about the unknown that lay ahead.
10+ mins
SPITFIRE SPY - over China
Unauthorized, high-risk photo-recon missions
10+ mins
"GENTLEMEN, YOU HAD A RACE ...The end of the Reno Air Races BY JAN TEGLER ייף
It has been almost 59 years since legendary pilot Bob Hoover first uttered the famous words, “Gentlemen, you have a race!”
2 mins
SABRE-RATTLING - Flying F-100s and F-86s in Korea
I GREW UP IN TOLEDO, OHIO with my mother, who provided the most influence in my life and my two sisters. My father, who was a World War I veteran, had died when I was only seven years old, right at the beginning of the Second World War.
10+ mins
"America" Flies Again
Restoring the Curtiss Seaplane
4 mins
Howard DGA GH-2
The \"Big Blue Freeloader\" earns its keep
10 mins
AWOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING
Major Charles \"Bazooka Charlie\" Carpenter and his gun-toting L-4 Cub
10+ mins
MUSTANGS over Normandy
P-51s search and destroy targets of opportunity
10+ mins
"DAMS RAID" - John "Hoppy" Hopgood, heroic "Dambuster"
Eighty years ago this May, Operation Chastise, more commonly known as the \"Dams Raid,\" took its place in military history. Flying at ultra-low-level, at night, a few RAF Lancaster crews successfully breached two major dams, the Möhne and the Eder, in the heart of Germany. The incredible story of the raid, executed by a newly formed RAF squadron flying specially modified Avro Lancaster bombers, is well-known to those with an interest in military aviation, and the extraordinary feat of arms carried out by the \"Dambusters\" has become legendary. To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the raid, this is the story of just one of those who did not return, with the details related in the words of one of his crew members who miraculously survived.
10+ mins
RISE OF THE PHANTOM - Evolution of the Legendary F-4
IT WAS MAY 10, 1972, when four Air Force F-4D Phantoms, using their AIM-7 Sparrow missiles, initiated a head-on engagement with a four-ship formation of MiG-21s. The MiGs had no weapons capable of engaging from a fontal aspect. Oyster Flight was part of a 28-ship F-4D prestrike MiGCAP configured to intercept any Vietnamese People’s Air Force (VPAF) MiGs that might attack the 92-plane strike force that followed. The target was the Paul Doumer Bridge, part of the highway network from China into Hanoi.
10+ mins
A Legendary Sortie
BRADLEY WENTZEL
1 min
Flight Journal Magazine Description:
Publisher: Air Age Media
Category: Flying & Aviation
Language: English
Frequency: Bi-Monthly
Flight Journal is like no other aviation magazine in the world, covering the world of flight from its simple beginnings to its high-tech, no-holds- barred future. We put readers in the cockpit and let them live the thrill and adventure of the aviation experience, narrated by those who know the technology and made the history. The spectacular photography – from air-to-air shots to rarely seen archival photos–enhances each and every story. Each issue brings the stories of flight–past, present and future – to life.
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