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 • NOVEMBER 2021 /VOL. 32, NO. 2

PEACEMAKER MEMORIES

YOUNGEST ROUND-THE-WORLD PILOT

THE LAST VIKING

JUNKERS TRANSPORT EXPLORED OFF RHODES

BOMBS AWAY

LOST AND FOUND IN THE LIBYAN DESERT

THE MEXICAN LINDBERGH • EMILIO CARRANZA’S HISTORIC 1928 GOODWILL FLIGHT FROM MEXICO TO THE UNITED STATES AND BACK ENDED IN TRAGEDY IN NEW JERSEY’S PINE BARRENS

THE TALE OF JUNGLE GYM • A STORIED SIKORSKY S-39 AMPHIBIAN THAT SERVED WITH THE CIVIL AIR PATROL IN WORLD WAR II HAS BEEN RETURNED TO PRISTINE CONDITION BY THE NEW ENGLAND AIR MUSEUM

PROF. MYERS’ SKY-CYCLE • BY ATTACHING A BICYCLE APPARATUS, PROPELLER AND RUDDER TO A HYDROGEN-FILLED BALLOON, CARL MYERS CREATED ONE OF THE FIRST MANEUVERABLE POWERED AIRCRAFT

STYLE • The next chapter of flight is only a few years away and futuristic eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) aircraft are gearing up to shuttle passengers across city skies

AVIATION HEAVEN

BEAR OF THE AIR • THE TUPOLEV TU-95—RUSSIA’S BIG, BRAWNY TURBOPROP BOMBER—STILL SENDS NATO FIGHTERS SCRAMBLING ON INTERCEPTS NEARLY 70 YEARS AFTER IT FIRST FLEW

TECH NOTES • TUPOLEV TU-95MS “BEAR-H”

ARCHITECT OF AMERICAN AIR POWER • FROM BOMBER GENERAL AND SELF-PROFESSED WAR CRIMINAL TO HEAD OF STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND, CURTIS LEMAY DIVIDED AMERICA BUT ALWAYS KEPT IT SAFE

THE LEGEND OF D.B. COOPER • FIFTY YEARS LATER, MYSTERY STILL SURROUNDS THE HIJACKING OF A 727 OVER THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST—THE ONLY UNSOLVED AIR PIRACY INCIDENT IN COMMERCIAL AVIATION HISTORY

BACK TO OSHKOSH • AFTER THE CANCELLATION OF LAST YEAR’S EAA AIRVENTURE, THE “WORLD’S GREATEST AVIATION CELEBRATION” RETURNED WITH A VENGEANCE THIS SUMMER

WILDERNESS WORKHORSE • DESIGNED AND BUILT IN CANADA, THE RUGGED, RELIABLE NOORDUYN NORSEMAN SET THE STANDARD FOR ALL SUBSEQUENT BUSH PLANES TO FOLLOW

REVIEWS

ABOVE THE REICH • Deadly Dogfights, Blistering Bombing Raids, and Other War Stories from the Greatest American Air Heroes of World War II, in Their Own Words

POLES IN THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN • A Photographic Album of the Polish “Few”

FERRY PILOT • Nine Lives Over the North Atlantic

SOVIET FIGHTERS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

AIRWARE WINGS OVER FLANDERS FIELDS • Between Heaven and Hell II

HOGS IN THE SAND • A Gulf War A-10 Pilot’s Combat Journal

BEYOND • The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space

TO RULE THE SKIES • General Thomas S. Power and the Rise of Strategic Air Command in the Cold War

MYSTERY SHIP • Can you identify this carrier-based turboprop? See the answer below.

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