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Scourge of the Allied Fighters
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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.

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November - December 2023
ZERO MYTH, MYSTERY, AND FACT
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ZERO MYTH, MYSTERY, AND FACT

A test pilot compares the A6M5 Zero to U.S. fighters

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November - December 2023
Fw 190 STURMBÖCKE
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Fw 190 STURMBÖCKE

The Luftwaffe's \"Battering Rams\" against the USAAF heavy bombers

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November - December 2023
American BEAUTY
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American BEAUTY

\"Forgotten Fifteenth\" top-scoring Mustang ace John J. Voll

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November - December 2023
BANSHEE WAIL!
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BANSHEE WAIL!

Flying Skulls over Burma

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November - December 2023
KILLER CORSAIR
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KILLER CORSAIR

Albert Wells, Death Rattlers Ace

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November - December 2023
BACKSTREET BRAWLER
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BACKSTREET BRAWLER

A young man, his Hurricane and the Battle of Britain

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November - December 2023
Still Flying After All These Years
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Still Flying After All These Years

One of the oldest airworthy J-3 Cubs

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September - October 2023
NOORDUYN NORSEMAN
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NOORDUYN NORSEMAN

Canada's rugged, fabric-covered workhorse

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September - October 2023
A good landing is one you can walk away from
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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.

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September - October 2023
General Curtis LeMay
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General Curtis LeMay

Strategic Air Command Creator & Commander

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September - October 2023
Flying the MESSERSCHMITT ME 109
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Flying the MESSERSCHMITT ME 109

Thrilling tales of aerial supremacy

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September - October 2023
Firepower
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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.

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September - October 2023
Stinson AT-19
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Stinson AT-19

The Reliant goes to war

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September - October 2023
EJECTING FROM A HAWKER HUNTER
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EJECTING FROM A HAWKER HUNTER

Roderick Kurtz punches out after an encounter with a USAF F-35

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September - October 2023
Adventures in the WAIRAPA WILD CAT
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Adventures in the WAIRAPA WILD CAT

A New Zealand P-40 warrior racks up the kills

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September - October 2023
Forgiveness - Lt. Gen. Richard Reynolds on crashing a $379 million B-1 prototype
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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.

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July - August 2023
BA Swallow - Slab-sided floater
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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.\"

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July - August 2023
FLYING THE ROC!
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FLYING THE ROC!

Stratolaunch test pilot Evan Thomas on flying the world's largest operational airplane

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July - August 2023
PAYBACK - B-25s settle the score on the Rising Sun
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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.

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July - August 2023
SPITFIRE SPY - over China
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SPITFIRE SPY - over China

Unauthorized, high-risk photo-recon missions

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July - August 2023
"GENTLEMEN, YOU HAD A RACE ...The end of the Reno Air Races BY JAN TEGLER ייף
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"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!”

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July - August 2023
SABRE-RATTLING - Flying F-100s and F-86s in Korea
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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.

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July - August 2023
"America" Flies Again
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"America" Flies Again

Restoring the Curtiss Seaplane

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May - June 2023
Howard DGA GH-2
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Howard DGA GH-2

The \"Big Blue Freeloader\" earns its keep

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May - June 2023
AWOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING
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AWOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING

Major Charles \"Bazooka Charlie\" Carpenter and his gun-toting L-4 Cub

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May - June 2023
MUSTANGS over Normandy
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MUSTANGS over Normandy

P-51s search and destroy targets of opportunity

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May - June 2023
"DAMS RAID" - John "Hoppy" Hopgood, heroic "Dambuster"
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"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.

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May - June 2023
RISE OF THE PHANTOM - Evolution of the Legendary F-4
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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.

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May - June 2023
A Legendary Sortie
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A Legendary Sortie

BRADLEY WENTZEL

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January - February 2023

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