The Last Corsair, Restoring An F4U For The Ages
The Nine Day Wonders, Overnight Assembly of America’s WW II Glider Training Fleet
How Lockheed’s XC-35 Unlocked The Mysteries Of High Altitude Pressurization
“Leave It To Beaver!”, A Rugged Bush Plane Joins The Service

October 1981

Blakesleewaffe, A Pictorial History Of The 4th Fighter Group’s Top-Scoring Fighter
Combat Flying The Martin 8-26 In The Unsung Airwar Over The Mediterranean And Southern Europe
The XP-41, Granddaddy Of The P-47 Thunderbolt
Demons By The Dozen, The Curtiss Lightweight Fighters And The Great Export Wars Of The Thirties

November 1981

The Lindbergh Kill, Combat Flying With The “Lone Eagle” In The Pacific
Grumman OV-1 Mohawk, The U.S. Army’s First STOL Tactical/Reconnaissance Jack-Of-All-Trades
France’s Flying Banana
To Hell In A Halifax, RAF Bomber Command’s Number Two Punch

December 1981

“Mossie”, The RAF’s Immortal Mosquito Bomber
The Fable of Able Mable, Martin’s AM-Mauler
The Sky Pirate of El Segundo

1982

January 1982

Secret Nazi Weapons
Bell XP-83
Last of the Fighting Fokkers
T-6 Memorabilia

February 1982

P-51 Mustang in Korea
Focke Wulf WWII Fighter

March 1982

Allied Planes flown by the Luftwaffe
Boeing’s Mighty B-52

April 1982

Helldivers of the Navy
Bell X-1 Rocket Planes
Luftwaffe’s Stork
FW-189 Reconnaissance Aircraft

May 1982

Aerial Warfare of the Future
Top Gun school of Dogfighting
Italy’s Cant Bombers

June 1982

Secret Japanese Air Force
Air War over Vietnam
Airborne Artillery – The Side Firing French “75”

July 1982

Japan’s Secret WWII Air Forces
Junkers JU-88 Combat Aircraft

August 1982

Firefox – Hollywood’s Mach 6 Interceptor
The JU-88, 188, 288, and 388 Nightfighters
Last flight of the B-57 Canberra

September 1982

F-86 in Korea
DC-2 Bombers
Arado 234 Jet Bomber

October 1982

F6F Hellcat
American Combat Planes in Spain
Grumman Dolfin and Vultee V-1-A vs. Me-109

November 1982

Douglas’s Forgotten Dolphin
Italy’s Schneider Cup Seaplane
MiG 1 – First of the Mikoyan and Gurevich Line
DeHavilland Mosquito

December 1982

Hughes Flying Boat Photos
Alexander Kartveli, Designer of the P-35, P-47, P-84, and F-105
Soviet Tank Killers of WWII

1983

January 1983

Marine Aviation – Future of Close Support
Skyhawks, Phantoms, Intruders, Prowlers, Helicopter Gunships, and Harriers

February 1983

Messerschmitt’s Flying Fiasco – The Me-210/410 Hornet
Mig-15 Fagot to MiG-27 Flogger
How Aeronica, Piper, and Taylorcraft joined the US Army

March 1983

Pitcairn Autogiro – King of the Whirling Blades
The Curtiss P-40 Warhawk Story

April 1983

P-40 Warhawk Story, Part II
Farewell to the F-105 Thunderchief
The Disastrous Dole Derby

May 1983

Last of the P-40 Line
Four Decades of Jet Trainers, from T-33 to T-46
Red Bomber Mainstays 1935 to 1945

June 1983

The U-2 – Kelly Johnson’s High Flying Ghost
Mysterious X-19, Curtiss Wright’s Last Airplane

July 1983

Great U-2 Spy Flights, How Francis Gary Powers was Shot Down
The Underrated Polish Air Force of 1939

August 1983

F-82 Terror Twin Mustang in Korea
Saga of the Sea Dart
Blohm and Voss’ “Flying Hamburgers”

September 1983

70 Years of War and Peace, The Guard Soldiers
Douglas X-3 Supersonic Stiletto
Blohm & Voss’ “Flying Hamburgers” Part II

October 1983

McDonnell’s F-101 Voodoo
Claire Chennault and the Air War over China in the 1930s
Ilyushin’s Il-28 Medium Jet Bomber
Saga of the Last Two-Place Seversky Swedish Fighter

November 1983

Vought F-7U Cutlass
Italy’s C.R.32 Mercenary Scourge of the Spanish Civil War
Czech Avia – World’s Fastest Biplane Fighter with Detailed Plans

December 1983

WWI Special Collector’s Edition
Planes, Aces, and Weaponry of the First Great Air War

1984

January 1984

Super Secret B-17
SAM Slayers and Wild Weasels
Are Iron Bomb Haulers Extinct?
Notes from a Thud Driver’s Logbook

February 1984

Focke-Wulf 190 Restoration
Army Air Corps Gallery 1938-1941
Making the “Right Stuff”
Submarine Launched Aircraft

March 1984

Moelders vs. Milan – Dogfight of the Century
Ryan’s X-13 – The Unknown VTOL Vertijet
F-84 in Korea – Exclusive Color Photos

April 1984

Does Air Superiority Have a Future?
The Forgotten TS-1 – The Fleet’s First Fighter
Lockheed Hudson – Stop Gap Bomber

May 1984

Special Jet Gallery
Gil Bright – A Fighter Pilot’s Odyssey
Lockheed Hudson Story – Part II
40th Anniversary of the Navy’s Fighter Bombers

June 1984

The F-106 Bows Out
Grumman’s F-11F – The Reluctant Tiger
The DC-3/C-47 in Foreign Service

July 1984

Return of the Thunderbirds
Vought’s XC-142 and the Origin of VTOL Flight
Ernst Heinkel and his Empire

August 1984

F/A-18 Hornet Special Edition

September 1984

Flying the French Jaguar
Heinkel and the Hitler-Era Fighters
Air Racing in the Thirties, Tony Levier interview

October 1984

Ready Alert with the Michigan Air Guard
More Air Racing with Tony Levier
P-61 Black Widow over China

November 1984

Airborne Early Warning System from the F-15 Eagle
Lavochkin Lagg, Soviet Russia’s Best WWII Fighter
Great Days of the Cleveland Air Races
Part III of the Tony Levier Story

December 1984

Boeing’s Lone Ranger – Last of the Fleet’s Big Flying Boats
The Martin-Baker Fighter
1939 Thompson Trophy Story
Tony Levier Story Conclusion

1985

January 1985

McDonnell F-85 “Goblin” – Fighter on a Trapeze
F-14 to F-20, Handicapping the Best of the West
Today’s Combat Fighters, Rules of the Dogfight
Hollywood’s Wartime Flying Films

February 1985

Messerschmitt Me-110 Nightfighter
B-24 Liberator Gallery
Catapult-Launched Curtis Seagulls, Seamews, and Seahawks

March 1985

Lockheed F-80 over Korea
Vultee Vanguard – Fighter Nobody Wanted
Memoirs of a WWII Bombardier

April 1985

Great Brewster Monoplane Blunders
Dive Bombers, Scout Bombers, and the Rise of Carrier Aviation
Flying the Vigilante over Vietnam – Memoirs of a Radar Attack Officer
Why the Italian Air Force Collapsed in WWII

May 1985

B-52 Low Level Mission – Nuclear Knockout from 200 Feet
Wartime Collapse of Curtiss Aircraft

June 1985

Handicapping the Combat Aircraft of the Great Pacific
Special Color Section – Corsairs, Hellcats, Avengers, and Dauntlesses
The End for Curtiss Aircraft, Part II

July 1985

The P-51 Mustang Story
Rare Wartime Color Photos and Complete Coverage

August 1985

William Tell 1984 Special Report – Air to Air Weapons Meet
From Lifting Body to Space Shuttle, The Theory of Unpowered Flight
Lockheed Vega’s Unique Unitwin – Two Decades Ahead of its Time!

September 1985

On the Warpath with the Air Apaches
Vultee’s Vengeance – End of the Dive Bomber Line
Douglas Sky Scorchers – Skystreak and Skyrocket

October 1985

Resurrecting the Douglas A-4 Skyhawk
Desert Ace Hans Marseille
Flying the Vultee Vengeance in Combat

November 1985

Flying an Aerial Refueling Mission
Mystery of the Northrop 3A and Vought 143
British Nimrod from Comet Airliner to Airborne Early Warning Snooper

December 1985

The Fabulous Phantom – Special Edition
Exclusive Color Photos, Cutaway Design, Construction, and Systems

1986

January 1986

Swordfish, Spectacular WWII Victories
Douglas F3D Skyknight
Lockheed XFV and Convair XFY VTOL Aircraft

February 1986

North American XB-70 Valkyrie
Northrop’s YB-49 Flying Wing

March 1986

B-1 Bomber Special Edition

April 1986

21st Century Carriers, Aircraft, and Strategy
USS Constellation, Super Carrier at Sea!

May 1986

Grumman X-29 Forward Swept Wing Testbed
Kurt Buehligen, Luftwaffe Ace
F-86 Sabres and MiG-15s over Korea

June 1986

Lockheed F-104 Starfighter
Jimmy De Santo, Incredible Race Pilot
Douglas P-70 Night Hunter

July 1986

Vought A-7 Corsair II
WWII Canadian Aircraft
CF.24 Biplane’s Last Hurrah

August 1986

Epic Air Battle for Guadalcanal in WWII, August 1942 to March 1943

September 1986

Hawker Hurricane, Most Versatile RAF Fighter of WWII
Thunderceptor, Forerunner of Republic F-105 Thunderchief

October 1986

North American’s Venerable T-6
Lockheed A-12 / SR-71 Blackbird

November 1986

America’s Airborne Nuclear Arsenal, 1945 to Present
North American F-107 and F-108 Air Superiority Fighters
Artistry in the Air

December 1986

Martin’s Mighty P6M Flying Boat
The Thundering Texan T-6, Part II

1987

January 1987

Fought’s Marauder Strikefighter
Great Pan-Am Clippers, Sikorsky S-42, Martin M-130, and Boeing 314
Aerial Refueling with the Air National Guard

February 1987

Army Air Corps Special Edition 1920-1940
Biplanes to Monoplanes
Air Service to the World’s Greatest Air Force

March 1987

Convair’s B-36 “Aluminum Overcast”
MiG-29 Fulcrum
Canadian CF-18 Hornet

April 1987

Advanced Tactical Fighter
WWII Luftwaffe Legends
Ryan S-T Sportsplane

May 1987

America’s Suicide Squadrons
Carrier Borne, Part I
First Flying Saucer, Vought’s XF5U

June 1987

Carrier Borne, Part II
EF-111 Radar Jammers

July 1987

The P-51 Mustang Story
Rare Wartime Color Photos and Complete Coverage

August 1987

Vought’s F-8 Crusader Special Edition

September 1987

Turkey Shoot, Greatest Carrier Air Battle
“Black Men” of Daimler-Benz, Luftwaffe Maintenance in WWII

October 1987

Bell’s P-59A Airacomet
F-106 Delta Dart
Convair XP-81

November 1987

America’s Army Air Corps
F8F Bearcat

December 1987

Sweden’s SAAB Viggen
Ryan S-C Sportsplane

1988

January 1988

The DeHavilland Mosquito in Combat, WWII’s Most Versatile Warplane
Chance-Vought & The Fleet’s First Dive Bombers, From O2U to SBU

February 1988

Mike Machat flies a combat intercept mission in an F-15
Vought SB2U Vindicator, Monoplane Dive Bomber comes of age

March 1988

Fifty years in a Flying Fortress, Exclusive ferry flight across the Atlantic
The last great airlift flyoff, the Boeing YC-14 vs. Douglas YC-15… Result: Douglas C-17A

April 1988

Under cover of darkness, P-38 Nightfighters in Korea
Flying the Great Wall of China in a C-46 Commando
France’s Last Wooden Wonder, the Arsenal VG-33

May 1988

Air Defense And The Cuban Missile Crisis
A history of military air-to-air refueling
A P-38 Pursuit Pilot Remembers Combat In The Southwest Pacific

June 1988

Riding the Electric Jet, the F-16 Fighting Falcon
Burning Japan to the ground, the B-29 fire bomb raids of WWII

July 1988

Douglas A-3 Skywarrior, B-66 Destroyer
The Great Schneider Cup Races, Part 1

August 1988

The art of camouflage and how it works
The Schneider Cup Races, Part 2
Flying the F-15 of 1947

September 1988

Flying an F-111 at Red Flag
A squadron commanders look at the Libyan destroyer
Dueling at high speed, Schneider Cup glory years

October 1988

Douglas AD Skyraider
A quarter century of combat
Penetrating Soviet air space, XF-88, XF-90, XF-93

November 1988

Luftwaffe Special Edition
From Blitzkrieg over Poland to bomber defense over Berlin
The rise and fall of Nazi Germany’s air arm
Me-109, Me-262, Ju-87, Do-335, Fw-190, He-111, Me-163, Ju-52, Ju-88, Do-217, He-219, He-177

December 1988

Northrop’s top secret flying wing interceptor, the XP-56 Black Bullet
Mission from Da Nang, Vietnam
Air defense, the new Air Guard mission

1989

January 1988

The DeHavilland Mosquito in Combat, WWII’s Most Versatile Warplane
Chance-Vought & The Fleet’s First Dive Bombers, From O2U to SBU

February 1988

Mike Machat flies a combat intercept mission in an F-15
Vought SB2U Vindicator, Monoplane Dive Bomber comes of age

March 1988

Fifty years in a Flying Fortress, Exclusive ferry flight across the Atlantic
The last great airlift flyoff, the Boeing YC-14 vs. Douglas YC-15… Result: Douglas C-17A

April 1988

Under cover of darkness, P-38 Nightfighters in Korea
Flying the Great Wall of China in a C-46 Commando
France’s Last Wooden Wonder, the Arsenal VG-33

May 1988

Air Defense And The Cuban Missile Crisis
A history of military air-to-air refueling
A P-38 Pursuit Pilot Remembers Combat In The Southwest Pacific

June 1988

Riding the Electric Jet, the F-16 Fighting Falcon
Burning Japan to the ground, the B-29 fire bomb raids of WWII

July 1988

Douglas A-3 Skywarrior, B-66 Destroyer
The Great Schneider Cup Races, Part 1

August 1988

The art of camouflage and how it works
The Schneider Cup Races, Part 2
Flying the F-15 of 1947

September 1988

Flying an F-111 at Red Flag
A squadron commanders look at the Libyan destroyer
Dueling at high speed, Schneider Cup glory years

October 1988

Douglas AD Skyraider
A quarter century of combat
Penetrating Soviet air space, XF-88, XF-90, XF-93

November 1988

Luftwaffe Special Edition
From Blitzkrieg over Poland to bomber defense over Berlin
The rise and fall of Nazi Germany’s air arm
Me-109, Me-262, Ju-87, Do-335, Fw-190, He-111, Me-163, Ju-52, Ju-88, Do-217, He-219, He-177

December 1988

Northrop’s top secret flying wing interceptor, the XP-56 Black Bullet
Mission from Da Nang, Vietnam
Air defense, the new Air Guard mission

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