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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A REPLICA OF THE WORLD’S FIRST BOMBER

A Stratotanker Joins the Air Force Museum

Earhart Relic Sells at Auction

Career Change

FLYING COLORS

MAGIC BUS

Dambusters to Get Window

“125 POUNDS OF NERVE AND PLUCK” • PIONEERING AVIATOR RUTH BANCROFT LAW WAS NOT AFRAID TO PUSH AGAINST BOUNDARIES

FLIGHT, INTERRUPTED • ROSCOE TURNER RAN INTO TROUBLE WHEN HE TRIED TO FLY PASSENGERS FROM ATLANTA TO NEW YORK CITY

STICKING THE LANDING • HOW DID ASTRONAUTS LEARN TO FLY THE SPACE SHUTTLE—WHICH FLEW LIKE NOTHING ELSE?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY • THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE WAS BORN 75 YEARS AGO THIS YEAR

A LIFE OF ADVENTURE

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FOXBAT FOLLIES • THE MIG-25 SEEMED TO SPELL TROUBLEFOR THE WEST. THEN A DEFECTOR EXPOSED THE TRUE NATURE OF THIS SOVIET BEAST

A Model MiG

THE 10 WORST FIGHTERS OF WORLD WAR II • HERE ARE SOME NOMINATIONS FOR THE HALL OF SHAME

“A WORTHY CAUSE” • BEFORE HECREATED KING KONG, MERIAN C. COOPER EXPERIENCED A THRILLING LIFE IN THE AIR—AND IN A SOVIET PRISON

THE CATCH OF CATCH-22 • BEFORE HE COULD FILM JOSEPH HELLER’S NOVEL, DIRECTOR MIKE NICHOLS HAD TO ASSEMBLE HIS OWN B-25 SQUADRON

WHERE ARE THEY NOW? • Eighteen B-25s flew for Catch-22. One was deliberately destroyed during the production. Here’s what happened to all these supporting actors.

ANOTHER DAY THE MUSIC DIED • WHAT THE FATAL AIRPLANE CRASH OF COUNTRY STAR PATSY CLINE SAYS ABOUT FLYING THEN AND NOW

THE GREAT STEWARDESS REBELLION

FLIGHT TEST

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