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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ANOTHER UNSUNG HERO

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NORWEGIAN SPITFIRE FLIES OVER AUSTRALIA

FINISHING AMELIA’S FLIGHT

C-53 SKYTROOPER TO SOAR AGAIN

ELECTRIFYING ROLLS-ROYCE AIRPLANE

SID COTTON’S AIR FORCE • USING HIGH-FLYING SPITFIRES AND A LOCKHEED ELECTRA, AN OUTSPOKEN AUSTRALIAN HELPED DEVELOP PHOTORECONNAISSANCE TECHNIQUES EARLY IN WORLD WAR II

RARE “PARASITE” RESTORED • A UNIQUE COLD WAR RELIC THAT PARTICIPATED IN ONE OF THE USAF’S MOST UNUSUAL PROJECTS GETS A NEW LEASE ON LIFE AT A DENVER MUSEUM

CAUGHT IN TRANSITION • GREAT LAKES’ NOT-SO-GREAT XTBG-1 BIPLANE TORPEDO BOMBER FELL VICTIM TO RAPID TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES IN THE RUN-UP TO WORLD WAR II

STYLE • After more than 26 years with Aviation History, editor Carl von Wodtke is retiring. We take a memorable look back at his successful career through Carl’s personal photographs.

IT TAKES A VILLAGE

DOWNING OF DEEP SEA 129 • QUESTIONS STILL SURROUND THE SHOOTDOWN OF AN AMERICAN EC-121 WARNING STAR ELECTRONIC RECONNAISSANCE PLANE BY A NORTH KOREAN MIG IN 1969

“A TERRIBLE TIME”

NAVY TYPHOON HUNTER • AN AVIATION ELECTRONICS TECHNICIAN DESCRIBES HIS EXPERIENCES ABOARD LOCKHEED WARNING STARS THAT FLEW INTO THE HEART OF TYPHOONS DURING THE VIETNAM WAR

SOON TO BE DISCONTINUED • HISTORICALLY VIEWED AS DEVASTATINGLY BAD, THE DOUGLAS TBD WAS NEVERTHELESS A GROUNDBREAKING TORPEDO BOMBER WHEN IT FIRST FLEW IN 1935

DOUGLAS TBD-1 DEVASTATOR

RISE AND DECLINE OF A USAF BASE • WESTOVER AIR FORCE BASE’S HISTORY MIRRORS THAT OF AIR BASES ACROSS AMERICA AS THEY ADAPTED TO NEW MISSIONS AND EVOLVING MILITARY REQUIREMENTS

THE FIRST SST • IN AUGUST 1961 A CREW OF DOUGLAS AIRCRAFT TEST PILOTS PROVED THE NEW DC-8’S WORTH BY DIVING IT THROUGH THE SPEED OF SOUND

THE FOURTH SST

REVIEWS

AERIAL FOREIGN LEGION • Volunteer Foreign Airmen in French Escadrille Service

WE WERE NEVER THERE • Volume 1: CIA U-2 Operations Over Europe, the USSR and the Middle East, 1956-1960

BOMBERS AT SUEZ • The RAF Bombing Campaign During the Suez War, 1956

LOCKHEED CONSTELLATION • A History

SPITFIRE ACE OF ACES: THE ALBUM • The Photographs of Johnnie Johnson

SBD DAUNTLESS VS A6M ZERO-SEN • Pacific Theater 1941–44

DOUGLAS XB-19 • America’s Giant World War II Intercontinental Bomber

THE FIGHTING CORSAIRS • The Men of Marine Fighting Squadron 215 in the Pacific During WWII

MYSTERY SHIP • Can you identify this U.S. Navy torpedo bomber? See the answer below.

IN HOT WATER