Aviation History

Aviation History Magazine is an authoritative, in-depth history of world aviation from its origins to the Space Age. Aviation History offers air enthusiasts the most detailed coverage of the history of manned flight, with action-packed stories and illustrations that put the reader in the cockpit with pilots and military (army, navy, and marine)aviators to experience aviation’s greatest dramas.

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Aviation History • MAY 2021/VOL. 31, NO. 5

MAILBAG

TOMCAT PILOT

SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS 2 TAKES FLIGHT

TOPGUN GOES COMMERCIAL

ALL-WOMAN AFGHAN AIRLINE FLIGHT

HIJACKING HISTORY

RAISED DAUNTLESS TO FLY AGAIN

ECHOES OF THE PAST IN A PARKING GARAGE

BEYOND “VINA” • HOLLYWOOD ACTRESS SUSAN OLIVER CONQUERED HER FEAR OF FLYING TO BECOME THE SECOND WOMAN TO PILOT A SINGLE-ENGINE AIRPLANE SOLO FROM NEW YORK TO EUROPE

DITCHED DAUNTLESS • THE FLYING LEATHERNECK AVIATION MUSEUM IS RESTORING A RARE DIVE BOMBER RESCUED FROM LAKE MICHIGAN—THE ONLY DOUGLAS SBD-1 IN EXISTENCE

FORGOTTEN ULTRA SABRE • ODD THOUGH THE NORTH AMERICAN F-107A LOOKED, SOME STILL CONSIDER IT THE BEST FIGHTER THE U.S. AIR FORCE NEVER BOUGHT

STYLE • We imagine ourselves soaring through the skies in the cockpits of artist Ron Cole’s engaging aviation art.

MOVIE MAGIC

DAUNTLESS FOREVER • THE “SLOW BUT DEADLY” DOUGLAS SBD DIVE BOMBER EMPLOYED 1930S TECHNOLOGY AND TACTICS TO TURN THE TIDE IN THE PACIFIC WAR

FLYING THE WORLD IN PAN AM’S CLIPPERS • THE BIG FLYING BOATS OF THE 1930S AND ’40S OFFERED PASSENGERS MORE TIMELY INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL WITHOUT SACRIFICING THE COMFORTS OF A CRUISE SHIP

A RED DEVIL’S ODYSSEY • OF FOUR FRIENDS WHO WERE AMONG THE FIRST AMERICANS TO TRAIN AS COMBAT PILOTS IN FRANCE, ONLY ONE COMPLETED HIS TRAINING AND SURVIVED THE WAR

AERIAL MINESWEEPERS OF WORLD WAR II • WHEN GERMANY DEPLOYED MAGNETIC MINES EARLY IN THE WAR, BRITAIN COUNTERED WITH AIRCRAFT THAT COULD EXPLODE THEM BY MIMICKING A SHIP’S MAGNETIC SIGNATURE

EARNING MY GOLD WINGS • A U.S. NAVY HELICOPTER PILOT RECOUNTS THE UPS AND DOWNS OF HIS FLIGHT TRAINING AT THE DAWN OF THE SIXTIES

REVIEWS

FIGHTING IN THE SKY • The Story in Art

HO CHI MINH TRAIL 1964-73 • Steel Tiger, Barrel Roll, and the Secret Air Wars in Vietnam and Laos

SOUTH PACIFIC AIR WAR, VOLUME 4 • Buna & Milne Bay, September 1942

F-102 DELTA DAGGER UNITS

AIRWARE MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR

RAF BOMBER COMMAND STRIKING BACK • Operations of a Halifax Crew

MARIE MARVINGT, FIANCÉE OF DANGER • First Female Bomber Pilot, World-Class Athlete and Inventor of the Air Ambulance

MYSTERY SHIP • Can you identify this aerial surveyor and photo platform? See the answer below.

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