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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RUSSIAN ROTORCRAFT PIONEER • Igor I. Sikorsky Jr., describing his father’s modesty (“Mailbag,” July 2019), relates that “Harvey Lippincott… called my attention to the fact that in Russia in 1912, a man named Yevgeny built a prototype quite similar in configuration to the Sikorsky VS-300.

GLOBETROTTING SILVER SPITFIRE

RECORD POLE-TO-POLE CIRCUMNAVIGATION

DAKS OVER NORMANDY

AROUND-THE-WORLD FLIGHTS

90 YEARS OF NINETY-NINES

LATE TO THE PARTY OVER KOREA • HANK BUTTELMANN WAS THE U.S. AIR FORCE’S YOUNGEST AND LAST ACE OF THE KOREAN WAR

MOTHMAN MICHAEL MANIATIS • THE DE HAVILLAND AIRPLANE AFICIONADO RECENTLY RETURNED A 1928 GIPSY MOTH TO FLIGHT, ADDING TO HIS EXISTING FLOCK OF MOTHS

FLOATPLANE BEYOND THE NORM • THE KAWANISHI E15K INCORPORATED A VARIETY OF ADVANCED FEATURES IN AN AIRCRAFT TYPE THAT WAS ON ITS WAY OUT

STYLE • We explore the future of flight with concepts from Airbus and the award-winning airline interior design firm Paperclip.

ACROSS THE POND

SLAUGHTER OF THE STUKAS • WHEN AMERICAN P-38S COVERING A BRITISH NAVAL FORCE IN THE AEGEAN SEA ENCOUNTERED A GROUP OF ATTACKING GERMAN JU-87S, A MASSACRE ENSUED

THE BATTLE OF BARKING CREEK • EIGHTY YEARS AGO, THE AIR WAR OVER BRITAIN DID NOT START WELL FOR THE ROYAL AIR FORCE IN A “FRIENDLY FIRE” INCIDENT INVOLVING SPITFIRES AND HURRICANES

WARFARE WITHOUT WEAPONS • THE RF-4C PHOTO PHANTOM COLLECTED VALUABLE INTELLIGENCE OVER VIETNAM’S BATTLEFIELDS AND BEYOND, FLYING “ALONE, UNARMED AND UNAFRAID”

NONSTOP VOYAGE AROUND THE WORLD • ON A FLIGHT FRAUGHT WITH PERIL, TWO PILOTS CIRCUMNAVIGATED THE GLOBE IN A SPINDLY TWIN-BOOM AIRPLANE WITH ONLY THE FUEL THEY CARRIED ON TAKEOFF

THE FRENCH LINDBERGH • WHILE ESTABLISHING FAST AND RELIABLE AIRMAIL ROUTES TO AND ACROSS SOUTH AMERICA, TRAILBLAZING AVIATOR JEAN MERMOZ BECAME A NATIONAL HERO

REVIEWS

FLIGHT TEST

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