Flight Journal

Flight Journal is the world’s number one historical aviation brand. It is the go-to publication for those seeking the aviation experience as seen from the cockpit by history-making pilots and through the lenses of the world’s best aviation photographers. The emphasis is on giving readers unexpected aviation information and making them part of landmark experiences in a way that is to be found in no other periodical.

The making of legends

Flight Journal • MAY/JUNE 2022 | VOLUME 29, NO. 3

TEST-FLYING THE HELLCAT • A test pilot’s trials and tribulations in Grumman’s WW II masterpiece

FLYING THE HELLCAT

TAMING THE “WOODEN WONDER” • Mike Spalding flies the Military Aviation Museum’s DeHavilland DH-98 Mosquito

What They Wore

JUG ACE • High-scoring P-47 Thunderbolt pilot Lt. Col. Robert “Bob” S. Johnson

FLYING THE THUNDERBOLT

56TH FIGHTER GROUP IN WW II

Me 163 Komet • A brilliant failure

RIFF RAFF • The Hawker Sea Fury that forced an astronaut back down to Earth

LAST MAN OUT • Miracle in the South China Sea

Keep Pushing Forward: Conquering PTSD

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Sixteen Hours in “Old Crow” • Ray Fowler closed the distance on “Old Crow” above Detroit, Michigan on January 13, rendezvousing with Paul Draper, who was flying Jack Roush’s P-51B. Fowler was at the controls of another “Old Crow,” a P-51D owned by Jim Hagedorn. Both airplanes wear the wartime livery of one of America’s most celebrated aces, Colonel Clarence “Bud” Anderson.