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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FAREWELL TO THE DC-7

BOEING RETIRES VINTAGE CHASE PLANES

DAUGHTER FLIES HER FATHER’S WWII FIGHTER

DIZZYING HEIGHTS

QUESTIONS SURROUND AVENGER DITCHING

GOODYEAR CORSAIR RETURNS TO FLIGHT

FLYING TO THE LIMITS • TEST PILOT SCOTT CROSSFIELD MADE DOZENS OF DANGEROUS X-PLANE FLIGHTS AND WAS THE FIRST TO REACH MACH 2, BUT HE ALWAYS REMAINED HUMBLE ABOUT HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS

RESURRECTION OF A LEGEND • A PIPER L-4 CUB EQUIPPED WITH SIX WING-MOUNTED BAZOOKAS TO ATTACK GERMAN ARMOR HAS BEEN RETURNED TO FLIGHT BY THE COLLINGS FOUNDATION

PARNALL’S PANTHER • ONE OF THE FIRST CARRIER-BASED AIRCRAFT FEATURED A SPACESAVING FOLDING FUSELAGE AND INFLATABLE FLOTATION DEVICES IN THE EVENT THE PILOT HAD TO DITCH

STYLE • Someday James Bond will likely pursue the villain in an eVTOL. Odds are it will be in one made by Aston Martin—with special options, of course.

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THE PEACEMAKER • CONVAIR’S GIANT B-36 BOMBER FULFILLED ITS PRIMARY MISSION BY NEVER SERVING IN COMBAT

“GIVE ’EM HELL, CAP!” • THE JOINT AMERICAN-BRITISH INDEPENDENCE DAY 1942 AIR RAID WAS A COSTLY START TO THE EIGHTH AIR FORCE’S EUROPEAN BOMBING CAMPAIGN…BUT IT WAS A START

AIR WAR OVER A GREEN HELL • A MIXED BAG OF AIRCRAFT IMPORTED FROM THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE PLAYED AN OUTSIZED ROLE IN THE 1930S WAR BETWEEN BOLIVIA AND PARAGUAY

THE BOLIVIAN “RED BARON”

CAUTION TO THE WIND • FIFTY YEARS AGO A BRITISH BALLOONIST AND A HUSBAND-AND-WIFE TEAM DISAPPEARED WITHOUT A TRACE AS THEY ATTEMPTED TO FLY THE ATLANTIC IN A BALLOON DUBBED THE FREE LIFE

EPITAPH FOR A HERO • NEARLY 80 YEARS AFTER THEIR C-47 CRASHED INTO A MOUNTAIN IN CHINA, THE REMAINS OF A TRANSPORT PILOT AND HIS FELLOW CREWMEN HAVE YET TO BE RECOVERED

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