August 1971

• The First Fortresses, Special B-17 Portfolio
• Flying the Fw-190
• Rammkommando, Hitler’s Suicide Squadrons
• Curtiss SB2C Helldiver, The Last Dive Bomber
• Too Big To Fly! Fokker’s Jinxed Giant

September 1971

• Whistling Death, F4U Corsair Chief Test Pilot
• Northrop BT-1, Fleet’s First Modern Diver Bomber
• Bell’s Futuristic Airacuda, History’s Forgotten Fighter
• Genealogy of the Tin Goose, Five Decades with the Ford Trimotor

October 1971

• Flying the Boeing F4B-4, the Classic Carrier Fighter
• Japan’s G3M Nell, Battleship Destroyer
• P-35 Seversky’s Cadillac Of The Air

November 1971

• The First Mustangs, Exclusive Photos of the P-51A and A-36
• Deadly Death Angel, Boeing’s First Bomber, the B-9
• Combat Flying the Pfalz D-III

December 1971

• Farewell to the Falcons of France, France’s Army of the Air, 1936-1940
• Curtiss’ Forgotten Dive Bomber, Navy’s Last Fighting Biplane
• Rendezvous at Ie Shima: Japan’s Surrender Birds
• Army Attack Aviation, Return of the Shrike

Bonus!

• Revised versions of August and September 1971 issues with cleaner images, crisper text, and no advertisements.

January 1972

• Attack Aviation in the 1930s
• The Story of the JG-52, Angel on Floats
• Vought OS2U Kingfisher, The Flying Brick
• The WWI Spads, Now There’s a Rare Bird

February 1972

• Mount of the Striking Eagles, the F4B-4
• Flying the Yellow Peril
• The Iron Works Gang, Grumman’s F4F Wildcat
• The Ghost of the Coronado, The Ultimate Patrol Bomber
• The Von Richthofen Legend
• Dean of the Red Bombers, Four Decades with A.N. Tupolev

March 1972

• Curtiss Condor, Vintage Wings from the 1920s
• The Fighter the Fleet Forgot, The Brewster F2A Story
• Stuka, WWII’s Most Potent Propaganda Bird
• Home from the Sea, Resurrecting an F6F
• Now There’s A Rare Bird! The Breese Diving Bomber

April 1972

• Agony Wagon, The Greenhouse Liberators
• The Phantom Brigade, Combat Over Spain
• Pylon Polisher
• Air Mail Special Delivery, Building Boeing’s Monomail

May 1972

• Long Nosed Hunter
• Type “O” Zero, Kit Review
• More Mustangs to Meet the Eye
• “Now There’s A Rare Bird”, Riverside Penguin
• Winged Can Opener, Germany’s Tank-Busting Henschel 129
• B-10 Baltimore’s Best, Bird that took the Air Corps out of the Stone Age
• Skyliner, Boeing’s Unsung 307

June 1972

• The Racer’s Edge, Highlights from the 1932 Cleveland Air Races
• Destroyer, Messerschmitt 110, Warhorse of Germany’s Night Fighters
• Thunder From The Sky, North American’s B-25 Mitchell medium bomber

July 1972

• Brewster’s Last Stand, The Pugnacious A-32 Attack Ship
• Captain of the Clouds, A-17 The Air Corps First Modern Dive Bomber
• Sign Of The Black Cross, Markings of Luftwaffe Fighter Command 1936-1945
• The Armistice Air Force, What Happened to the Aircraft of Vichy France

August 1972

• Mossie, Story of the RAF’s Wooden Wonder
• Terror Bomber, Caging the Luftwaffe’s Mythical Beast
• Hawk 75, The Air Corps’ Classic Monoplane Fighter
• Wings Over The Atlantic, The Ill-Fated Sikorsky S-35

September 1972

• Diagraming the Dream Planes
• Now There’s A Rare Plane, The Hall Monoped
• Carrier Fighter, The Curtiss F11C/BFC Hawk
• Starburst, Lockheed’s Orion
• Angelito, The Luftwaffe’s Combat Infantryman
• Belly Landing, Pranging the B-17 Flying Fortress

October 1972

• The Sky Pirate of El Segundo, Douglas XTB2D-1
• Emil, Franz, & Gustav… Combat Report on the Messerschmitt 109E, 109F, 109G, and the aces who flew them
• Economy Fighter, The North American P-64 Trainer/Fighter/Bomber
• The Marvelous Martin GMB, America’s First Classic Bomber

November 1972

• Forked Tail Legend, In Combat with the P-38 Lightning
• Blitz Bird, Ju-88 Luftwaffe Workhorse
• The Falcon’s Stepsister, Super-Scale Plans of the Douglas O-25C
• Junkers Ju-88 A-4 Cutaway

December 1972

• Martin’s Mighty Mariner, Flying the PBM
• Samurai, Japan’s Legendary Zero
• Night Stalker, Canada’s Midnight Raiders
• Shell Wings, Jimmy Doolittle’s Record Breaking Racers

January 1973

• The Canard Comes Back, Tail-First Triumphs & Tribulations
• Slow But Deadly, The Douglas Dauntless – Classic WWII Ship Killer
• Lufthansa Bomber, The Dornier Do-17
• Stinson’s Bargain Basement Brigade

February 1973

• GM’s Flying Frankenstein, the Reluctant P-75 Eagle
• Hawkman – Interview with Donovan Berlin, Designer of the P-36 & P-40
• The First Corsair, Vought’s Legendary O2U
• Blow Torch Across The Atlantic, Colonel Dave Schilling’s 56th Fighter Group

March 1973

• Ascender, Curtiss’ Canard Fighter
• Made In Japan – Betty, Helen, and Lily, A Combat Evolution
• The Flying Anteater, the Luftwaffe’s Do-335
• Zeppelin, London’s First Blitz
• Douglas Dobbin, exclusive plans of a classic workhorse
• Eagles In Echelon, Special Combat Art Portfolio

April 1973

• Good Vibrations, flight training in the BT-13, circa 1943
• Magruder’s Marauder, interview with the designer of the B-26
• Combat Flying in the F-4 Phantom
• Martin’s Torpedo Trucks

May 1973

• Magruder’s Marauder, Part II of building & flying the B-26
• Commando Extraordinaire, the Curtiss C-46
• The Gallant Gamma, John Northrop’s Feat of Classic Engineering
• Aces of the Silver Screen

June 1973

• Emsco, Aviation Pioneer lost in the pages of time
• Douglas DC, beginning of the Gooney Bird legend
• Whispering Death, the Bristol Beaufighter
• Dr. Dornier’s Flying Whales

July 1973

• Douglas DC, Part II – The Gooney Goes To War
• “Go In and Get A Hit!” – Flying the TBD Devastator & TBF Avenger
• Night Creature, flying WWII’s most fearsome night fighter, the P-61 Black Widow
• Flying Machines The Fates Forgot, concluding the Emsco story

August 1973

• The Great Bolo Boondoggle, short career of the Douglas B-18
• On The Track of the WWII F7F Tigercat
• The Blackburn Battleships
• Doug Davis and the Travel Air Mystery Ships

September 1973

• The First, Last, and Only – Douglas B-42/43 Prototypes
• Kingcobra, solving the mystery of Bell’s P-63 Fighter
• Nieuport Chronicles, WWI’s Premier Ace Maker
• Breaching the Walls of Fortress Europe, World’s First Operational Jet Bomber
• Getting the most from your Minecraft P-51D Mustang model

October 1973

• Super Bomber, designing and building the Boeing B-29
• Fortress Killer, Japan’s Raiden Interceptor
• The Parasols of Santa Monica

November 1973

• The Great Owl, building & flying America’s first super bombers
• Man-made Lightning, the Pilots & Engineers who tested the YP-38 Lightning
• Harpoon, the patrolling mariner’s ultimate weapon
• The Mystery of the Schutte-Lanz Airships

December 1973

• Comet, the great deHavilland racers
• The Last Sortie, the designer of the Focke-Wulf Fw-190
• “It Might Have Been Moonbat”, McDonnell’s first fighter
• Rocket Fighter, Minicraft’s Me-163 model
• Fading Away, goodbye to the KC-97
• The First Hydroplane, pioneering with Glenn Curtiss

January 1974

• Tri-Winged Terror, Fokker Triplane Aces
• Ultimate Corsairs, F4Us in the Pacific & Korea
• Stratojet, the Boeing B-47
• Douglas DC-4 Skymaster
• Civilian Warbirds, Pros & Cons of Ex-military Jets

February 1974

• Fiat CR-32
• B-32 Dominator, Second String Superbomber
• Curtiss AT-9 Air Jeep
• Grumman’s F2F & F3F Flying Beer Barrels
• Loening’s Flying Shoehorns

March 1974

• Mini-Shrike, the Curtiss XP-31
• Hun Hunter, the S.E.5a WWI fighter
• Blitz Bomber, the Heinkel He-111
• de Havilland Moths That Roared

April 1974

• SAAB Story, Swedish Aerial Weapons
• Whine From The Jug, the immortal P-47 Thunderbolt
• Ace’s Corner
• Parasols of Santa Monica

May 1974

• Whine From The Jug, Part II of P-47 Saga
• Hunchbacked Hawks, the Savoia-Marchetti SM79
• Ace’s Corner, Hahn’s Me-109s
• Hell Off Okinawa, Kamikazes’ Last Ditch
• Basketcase Bummer, the Curtiss C-46 Caravan

June 1974

• Whine From The Jug, Part III the Thunderbolt in Combat
• Douglas A-26 Invader
• Air Racer Roscoe Turner, Something “Special”

July 1974

• The Fable of Able Mable, the Martin AM-1 Mauler
• Whine From The Jug, Part IV, P-47Ds in Europe and Ns in the Pacific
• Pulitzer Price Pursuits, Classic Racers in Disguise

August 1974

• Forgotten Fortresses, building the prototype B-17 and YB-17
• Whine From The Jug, XP-72 and conclusion of P-47 story
• Fokker’s Flying Razors, Germany’s WWI too late terrors

September 1974

• Forgotten Fortresses, the B-17 goes to war
• Test Pilot, interview with Bill McAvoy
• The Tin Bubble, America’s first & only all-metal dirigible

October 1974

• F6F Hellcat, King of Carrier Fighters
• Legion of the Lost, Consolidated’s PB-2A
• Gordon Israel, Golden Age of Aviation Pioneer

November 1974

• Saga of the Consolidated’s B-36 Peacemaker
• Return of the Me-109G  Augsburg Eagle
• Requiem for the Luftwaffe, Twilight at Munich
• B-17 Flying Phoenix, from Atomic Target to Borate Bomber

December 1974

• Around the World in 175 Days
• The Curtiss Phantom P-40
• Von Richthofen and the Albatross Aces

January 1975

• The Falcons of Freeman Field, testing the Rising Sun’s best
• Martin’s Mercenaries, flying the Maryland and Baltimore
• Spy in the Sky, North American’s O-47
• Journal of the Big Bird, Lockheed’s Sirius

February 1975

• Bush Pilot, Flying Alaska in a Lockheed Vega
• Night Stalker, Revelle’s Me-110G model
• The Sparrowhawk Airship Fighter
• Blackhawk, the Curtiss XP-87
• The Borrowed Bomber, Lockheed Ventura

March 1975

• Behemoth, the Douglas B-19
• Wellington: Geodetic Giant
• Sword of the Samurai, Kawasaki’s Tony
• The Other Martin

April 1975

• P-Boat, Part 1 of Consolidated PBY Catalina story
• Thunder & Lightning, Macchi Fighters
• Locklear, the Man Who Walked On Air

May 1975

• P-Boat, Part II of Consolidated PBY Catalina story
• Dive Bombers For Sale, the French Vindicator
• Born To Lose, North American’s XB-28 bomber
• Old One Hundred, Veteran F4B in Disguise
• Formations, a classic gallery wingtip to wingtip
• C’est Beau! Revell’s Bristol Beaufighter

June 1975

• The Flying Hallmarks
• Little Midway, the Battle of Santa Cruz
• Interview with Jimmy Doolittle, a Wings Exclusive
• Sopwith’s Flying Staircase, dogfighting in WWI’s first successful triplane

July 1975

• Treasures of McCook Field, Part 1
• Boeing’s 5 in 1 Fighter, the XF8B-1
• Flying a Legend, the Spitfire

August 1975

• Treasures of McCook Field, Part 2
• Hitler’s Mystery Jet Bombers
• Flying Catamaran, SM 55 seaplanes
• Fairchild’s Perennial Prototype, First Modern Cabin Monoplanes

September 1975

• Pipe Organ Bomber, Martin’s XB-48
• Defending the Reich, Air War over Germany 1943-1945
• Sea Wings, Classic Curtiss Flying Boats

October 1975

• Flying Sword, the F-86 Sabre Jet
• Defending the Reich, Combat on the Eastern Front
• Interview with Erich Hartman, WWII’s Greatest Ace
• Sea Wings Part 2, Twilight of the Big Biplane Boats

November 1975

• Kit Carson, Mustang Ace
• Middle River Stump Jumper, Martin’s Bicycle Gear
• The Bristol Bregade, Scout – Brisfit – Bristol Monoplane
• Building the Pima Air Museum in Tucson, Arizona

December 1975

• Desert Warriors, Curtiss Tomahawk and P-40
• Midget Killer
• Master Index to Wings
• France’s New Army of the Air
• Dive Bomber

January 1976

• Lightning Strikes Twice, Macchi 202
• Year of the Sky Queen, B-17
• The Last of the Breed, Destroying the Luftwaffe 1943-1945
• Mach 3.0, Bell’s X-2

February 1976

• The 11th Hour Sopwiths
• “Seek and Destroy”, Part 2 of “The Last of the Breed”
• Bearcat, ultimate WWII dogfighter
• Mach 3.0, Part II… Bell X-2

March 1976

• “P” for Pursuit, Army’s Biplane Hawks
• The Last of the Breed, Part III… Decoying the Luftwaffe
• SkyBolt, Lockheed P-38 Lightning

April 1976

• SkyBolt, Part II… Lockheed XP-38
• Last of the Breed, Part IV… Combat flying against Luftwaffe jets
• “P” for Pursuit, Curtiss P-6E Hawk

May 1976

• The Making of the P-51 Mustang
• Thunder Maker, Republic’s F-84
• SkyBolt, Part III… P-38 competition

June 1976

• The Making of the P-51 Mustang, Rolls Royce Merlin engine
• Cry Havoc, the Douglas A-20
• Thunder Maker, Part II… the F-84 story

July 1976

• Across the Pacific, Flying nonstop from Tokyo to New York in 1942
• History of the Convair B-58 Hustler
• The Best of the Breed, handicapping German and Allied fighters
• Cry Havoc, Part II… the A-20 goes to war

August 1976

• SkyBolt, Part IV… Lockheed P-38 Lightning armament
• No Room to Swing a Cat, Grumman’s Jaguar swing wing fighter
• Dornier’s Double-Ender, the Luftwaffe’s Do-335 “Arrow”
• Ghosts from Luscombe’s Drawingboard

September 1976

• Conveyor’s Needle Nosed Orphan, the B-46 jet bomber
• SkyBolt, Part V of the P-38 Lightning story
• Heinkel’s Phony Fighter, the He-100D
• “I Spy”, Russia’s aging bomber fleet learns a new trade

October 1976

• Dark Lady, Northrop’s P-61 Black Widow
• Bicentennial Curtiss P-40 Warhawk
• Avenger in the Shadows
• Star-Strutter, Hansa-Brandenburg’s D.1

November 1976

• Dark Lady, Part II of the Northrop P-61 story
• B-10, the restoration of the year
• SkyBolt, Part VI… Lockheed’s P-38 Lightning prepares for war
• Fokker Stand-in, Germany’s forgotten Pfalz fighter

December 1976

• The First Pursuit, saga of the Thomas Morse Scouts
• Dark Lady, Part III… the P-61 goes into combat over Europe
• SkyBolt, Part VII of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning story

January 1977

• Dark Lady, Conclusion of the P-61 Story
• Escort Mustangs of Iwo Jima
• Secrets of Silver Hill, National Air & Space Museum
• Forgotten Dreadnaught, Sikorsky XPBS-1

February 1977

• Grumman A-6 Intruder
• Suicide Samurai, Japan’s Human Bombs
• A Fortress is Forever, Boeing B-17
• Blimp, Inside Lighter Than Air

March 1977

• Framing & Flying the Constitution, First of the non-jet Jumbos
• Year of the Zero, Restoring a Saipan Zero
• Thunder-Stricken, Proof the P-47 was the Toughest Bird
• Song of Roland, Germany’s overlooked WWI Fighters

April 1977

• Rocket Fighter, Me-163 Comet
• Winged Excalibur, Douglas SBD Dauntless
• Clobbering, a Primer of WWII Fighter Tactics
• Rangefinder, F-82 Twin Mustang

May 1977

• Custer Channel Wing Story
• Skybolt, Pt VIII, P-38 meets Two More Enemies
• Rocket Fighter, Me-163 Comet
• Outcasts of the Islands, Graveyards of Pacific Warbirds
• Things with Wings, Foolish looking but they flew!

June 1977

• First Among Equals, RAF Bomber Command
• Bell Airacuda
• Douglas B-18
• Most Elusive Hughes, D-2/F-11 Recon/Bomber

July 1977

• Crusader Without A Cause
• Skybolt Pt IX, P-38 Dive Bombers
• Breguet Battlewagons, WWI’s Champion Medium Bomber

August 1977

• Dark Hunter, Grumman’s F6F-5N Nightfighters
• Buy British!, B-57 Most Long-lived Combat Design
• Sky Conquerer, Mexico’s Forgotten Eagle
• The First Fighter, Boeing’s PW-9

September 1977

• Speed Merchant, Howard Hughes H-1
• From The Halls Of Montezuma, Marine Air Museum
• Buy British, Pt II of B-57 Canberra Story
• Sea-Going Boeings, FB Carrier Fighter Line

October 1977

• Skybolt Pt IX, Escort Fighter over Europe
• Buy British, Conclusion of the B-57 Canberra Story
• Pictorial History of the 391st Bomber Group, Martin Marauder

November 1977

• Blunted Arrow, Fiat G.50
• The Great Clippers, Boeing 314
• Gee Bee: Profile of a Legend, The R-1 Racer
• Escort Fighter, Story of the F-82

December 1977

• The Great Clippers, Pt II, Boeing 314
• The Reluctant Pirate, Vought’s F6U Jet Fighter
• Huff-Daland in 3D, Little Known Aviation Pioneer

January 1978

• Diary of the Fighting Corsairs, VMF-215 in the Solomons
• RAF vs. Luftwaffe, The Great Radar Countermeasures War
• One-of-kind Fokkers
• Huff-Daland and the Keystone Bombers

February 1978

• Was the B-24 Liberator a Brand-X Bomber?
• The Luftwaffe’s Moskito
• The Roto-Wizards, England’s top secret Helicopter-Parachute
• Japanese Aircraft Graveyard

March 1978

• The P-38 Lightning’s Last Missions over Europe
• Interview with Racer Design Genius Miller Howell
• Germany’s V-1 Buzz Bomb Revenge Weapon

April 1978

• Did America enter WWII in 1938?
• Real story of Pre Lend-Lease French Hawk 75 Fighters
• Search for speed, Part 2 of Howell-Miller Designs
• Miles & Atwood Racer, the DH-4 “Flaming Coffins”

May 1978

• North American’s X-15
• Convair’s Tradewind
• “Fighter Squadron”

June 1978

• Grumman Panther / Cougar Line
• “5-Grand” The Ultimate in Warpaint
• Heinkel He-115 Mines, Torpedos, and Midnight Reconnaissance

July 1978

• Why Martin lost the XB-51 contract
• Gloster Meteor, the Allies first jet
• Earl Ortman’s Thompson Trophy Racers
• Gallery of hard landings

August 1978

• P-38 Lightning in the Pacific, Aleutians, China, Burma, and India

September 1978

• The Real Story of “Flak Bait”, WWII’s Legendary Marauder
• Mustang Combat Portfolio
• Short Sunderland Flying Boat

October 1978

• Luftwaffe’s greatest Me-109 Aces
• Heavy Bombers of the 8th
• Marine Skyraders in Korea
• Special Color Combat Portfolio

November 1978

• Why the Bell Airacobra Failed
• Album of Legendary Biplane Photos
• Beech’s Gargantuan “Grizzly”, WWII’s most powerful attack plane

December 1978

• Special Flying Salon
• 100 of Aviation’s Greatest Flight Portraits

January 1979

• Day Wings Fell Off The B-47
• DeHavilland Vampire and Development of the Jet Engine
• P-39 Airacobra Goes To War

February 1979

• Japan’s Demon Interceptors
• P-39 Airacobra Color and Markings
• Canada’s CF-105 Arrow

March 1979

• Was Canada’s CF-105 the Finest Interceptor of its Day?
• Test Pilot’s Logbook, from Martin B-10 to Convair XF-102
• Rare Birds and Revitalized Racers

April 1979

• The Fokker D-VII
• Memoirs of a Westland Test Pilot
• Death of Canada’s Combat Aviation Industry
• Conclusion of Arrow Story
• Britain’s Biplane Bomber Brigade

May 1979

• Lockheed’s SR-71 Blackbird
• Boeing’s Classic Biplane Carrier Fighters, F2B and F3B
• Flight of the Question Mark
• 50th Anniversary of Air-to-Air Refuelling

June 1979

• Special Bomber Issue, Can the F-111 replace the B-1?
• Flying the B-25 in the Pacific
• Boeing’s XB-15 Long Range Bomber

July 1979

• Allied Aircraft Captured by the Germans
• Most Spectacular Carrier Crashes
• F-111 vs. B-1, Part II

August 1979

• Heinkel’s 219 Owl, Demon in the Dark
• Flying Tiger – Myth, Legend, Reality?
• F-111 Fighter-Bomber Comes Into Its Own

September 1979

• Curtiss Shrike, Vintage Attack Plane
• Two Decades with North American’s Super Sabre, Part I
• Last Round for the Luftwaffe, 1945

October 1979

• Ju-87 Stuka – Dive Bombing in Poland, Tank Busting in Russia
• Flying the F-100 in Vietnam
• Walter Beech’s Staggerwing Goes To War
• Royal Navy Says Goodbye to an Era

November 1979

• Assault Helicopters in Vietnam
• F2H Banshee
• Great Lakes – Goodbye to the Biplane Bombers

December 1979

• Piaggio P-108B, Italy’s Four-Engined Flying Fortress
• Great Marianas Turkey Shoot, Combat in the F6F Hellcat
• Boeing’s Oldest Flying Biplane