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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FISHER XP-75 CRASH

INDOCHINA INVADER FLIES AGAIN

POLE-TO-POLE PEACE FLIGHT

JIMMY STEWART’S CESSNA ON A STICK

SPECIAL DELIVERY

VINTAGE OHIO TERMINAL SET FOR PRESERVATION

ABANDONED EKRANOPLAN FINDS A HOME

THE BEST DIVE BOMBER • SEEKING PAYBACK FOR PEARL HARBOR, DIVE-BOMBER PILOT DICK BEST HAD A HAND IN SINKING TWO JAPANESE CARRIERS DURING THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY

T SQUARE 54 • THE SEATTLE MUSEUM OF FLIGHT’S METICULOUS B-29 RESTORATION HAS RETURNED MOST OF THE VETERAN BOMBER’S CONTROLS TO WORKING ORDER

GOLDEN ARROW MISSES MARK • CONVAIR’S 880 AND 990 AIRLINERS DEMONSTRATED THAT FASTER WASN’T ALWAYS BETTER WHEN IT CAME TO PASSENGER TRANSPORT

STYLE • We focus our attention on Jessica Ambats’ spectacular air-to-air photographs, a Jetsonsstyle jet pack and the new Nat Geo series about the Mercury Seven astronauts

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PETE KNIGHT’S WILD RIDES • PILOTING X-15S TO A RECORD MACH 6.7 AND THE FRINGES OF SPACE, THE U.S. AIR FORCE MAJOR EARNED THE HARMON TROPHY AND NICKNAME “SPEEDY PETE”

THE EXPENDABLES • WHEN BOMBS BEGAN EXPLODING PREMATURELY OVER VIETNAM, KILLING AIRCREWS, THE CAUSE WAS TRACED TO FAULTY FUZES, BUT MORE WOULD DIE BEFORE A SOLUTION WAS FOUND

ALASKA’S LEGENDARY BUSH PILOTS • DURING THE GOLDEN AGE OF ALASKA BUSH FLYING, PIONEERING AIRMEN DID THINGS THEIR WAY, REGARDLESS OF WHAT OTHERS THOUGHT IMPOSSIBLE

LOST FLIGHT TO BRAZIL • AFTER BECOMING THE FIRST TO FLY ACROSS THE CARIBBEAN SEA, PAUL REDFERN DISAPPEARED IN THE AMAZON JUNGLE, SPAWNING A DOZEN SEARCH EXPEDITIONS AND AN UNSOLVED MYSTERY

CUBANS OVER THE CONGO • AFTER BITTER DEFEAT AT THE BAY OF PIGS, THE CIA SENT AN “INSTANT AIR FORCE” TO AFRICA TO FIGHT COMMUNISM…AND CHE GUEVARA

REVIEWS

JAYHAWK • Love, Loss, Liberation, and Terror Over the Pacific

LOCKHEED XF-90 PENETRATION FIGHTER

SIX-DAY WAR 1967 • Operation Focus and the 12 Hours That Changed the Middle East

DAVID MCCAMPBELL • Top Ace of U.S. Naval Aviation in World War II

DEAD RECKONING • The Story of How Johnny Mitchell and His Fighter Pilots Took on Admiral Yamamoto and Avenged Pearl Harbor

OPERATION VENGEANCE • The Astonishing Aerial Ambush that Changed World War II

AIRWARE DIGITAL COMBAT SIMULATOR I-16

RED BARON PACK

MYSTERY SHIP • Can you identify this attack aircraft? See the answer below.

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