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Aviation History Magazine
Before computer-generated images, aviation films had real airplanes and real aviators at the controls....
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Aviation History Magazine, HistoryNet, Homepage Featured Top Stories, Homepage Hero, Mag: Aviation History Aircraft, Mag: Aviation History Hero
From inauspicious biplane beginnings to near mastery of the skies above combat zones, UAVs have a rich history....
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MHQ Magazine
Although a number of American citizens flew for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, the United States learned little from their experience. The heavens were threatening rain, but the mission was deemed sufficiently critical to...
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Military History, MH Interviews
Cole was co-pilot to famed USAAF Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle in the lead plane of 16 B-25B bombers that boldly raided targets in Japan on April 18, 1942...
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World War II Magazine
A conversation with Dick Cole who copiloted the lead B-25 with Doolittle in the famous 1942 raid......
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Aviation History Magazine
The interesting question today is not whether the Mustang was fast, but why...
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American History Magazine
Amelia Earhart, Ruth Nichols, Louise Thaden, Ruth Elder, and Florence Klingensmith made aviation history a decade after the 19th Amendment lifted American women from second-class citizenship....
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Aviation History Magazine
A former Topgun instructor describes a typical combat training mission during his time at the Navy Fighter Weapons School. In September 1982 I was one of eight students being briefed in a classroom at the Navy Fighter Weapons School at...
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Aviation History Magazine
Beaufighter Aces of World War 2 by Andrew Thomas, Osprey Publishing, Oxford, England, $19.95. Looking like a pug-nosed Bristol Blenheim with an attitude, the Bristol Beaufighter seemed every inch the hybrid bomber-turnedfighter that it...
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Aviation History Magazine
Quiet, shy and introverted on the ground; aggressive, hostile and fearless in the air. Major General George C. Kenney had had enough. Ever since a certain pilot arrived at Hamilton Field for combat training on May 6, 1942, he had been...
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Aviation History Magazine
During a 36-year career, ‘Red’ Carmody went from flying dive bombers in World War II to commanding an aircraft carrier off Vietnam. The contact report on October 26, 1942, came from Lieutenant Commander James R.“Bucky” Lee,...
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Aviation History Magazine
August 31, 1940, proved to be Lieutenant Wilhelm “Willy” Fronhofer’s unlucky day. During a cross-Channel raid, a British fighter got on his tail and blasted away with its eight .303 Browning machine guns at his Messerschmitt Me-109....
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Aviation History Magazine
Bob McCandless witnessed a double Me-262 kill before his P-51 was shot down in flames over enemy territory. Two yellow-nosed North American P-51 Mustangs started their dive from 15,000 feet and were doing 450 miles per hour when they...
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Aviation History Magazine
Major Archie G. Donahue shot down five aircraft on a single mission—twice. Major Archie Donahue’s reputation preceded him when he began training a new generation of U.S. Marine pilots to operate the Vought F4U-1D Corsair from aircraft...
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Aviation History Magazine
A Marine F4U-1 Corsair pilot, dodging enemy fire, paddled for his life. First Lieutenant Robert A. Schaeffer was among the luckiest Corsair pilots to both win and lose against Japanese Zeros over Rabaul and live to tell about it. In the...
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World War II Magazine
The first flight game to be released for Xbox 360, the squadron-based Blazing Angels focuses on the most intense air battles of the war. With graphics and visuals far superior to other flight games, Blazing Angels is a looker. But as the...
