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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Aviation History

MATH QUESTION

BATAAN IS BACK

AIR FORCE MUSEUM RECEIVES TUSKEGEE TRAINER

WHAT A HEEL

MILESTONES JUST DROPPING IN

ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG • CROMWELL DIXON WAS ALREADY A PIONEERING AVIATOR WHEN HE MET HIS FATE AT THE AGE OF 19

THE MANY LIVES OF A BOLO • AFTER A CHECKERED CAREER, A RESTORED B-18 IS ON DISPLAY IN DENVER

THE TIN BLIMP • IT WAS NOT EXACTLY A LEAD ZEPPELIN, BUT IT CAME CLOSE

AN AVIATION CAPITAL • IMAGES FROM A PHOTO AGENCY IN WASHINGTON, D.C., DEMONSTRATE THE ENDURING APPEAL OF AIRPLANES AND THE PEOPLE WHO FLEW THEM

AN ELEMENT OF RISK

FROM STRATOCRUISER TO SUPER GUPPY • THE BOEING 377s WERE BIG. TRANSFORMED INTO GUPPIES, THEY BECAME EVEN BIGGER

THE AIRPLANE THAT ALMOST WASN’T • IN WORLD WAR II, THE B-32 DOMINATOR WAS LITTLE MORE THAN AN ALSO-RAN, BUT IT CHALKED UP ONE UNFORTUNATE MILESTONE

TO THE EDGE OF SPACE • PROJECT MANHIGH BOLDLY WENT WHERE ONLY ANIMALS HAD GONE BEFORE

BIRTH OF THE WASP • ALREADY FAMOUS AS AN AIR RACER, PILOT JACQUELINE COCHRAN FOUGHT TO FIND A ROLE FOR WOMAN FLYERS IN WORLD WAR II

THE TURKESTAN INCIDENT • IN 1967, TWO F-105 THUNDERCHIEF PILOTS VIOLATED POLICY BY FIRING AT A SOVIET SHIP IN A VIETNAMESE HARBOR. THEIR COMMANDER PUT HIS CAREER ON THE LINE TO SHIELD THEM

FLYING TITANS

MYSTERY SHIP • Can you identify this Dutch Reaper?

FINAL APPROACH