Air Classics - Where History Flies! - August 2022

Where History Flies AUGUST 2022 • Vol. 58/No. U.S./CANADA $9. HOW AVIATION DISCOVERED THE NORTH POLE FROM BOLERO TO OPERATION TO ...

2 AIR CLASSICS/August 2022 THE LARGEST COLLECTION OF HISTORIC AMERICAN AIRCRAFT WEST OF THE ROCKIES! YANKS AIR MUSEUM HOUSES AN ...

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4 AIR CLASSICS/August 2022 Editorial & Production Staff Michael O’Leary • Publisher/Editor • [email protected] Mat ...

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6 AIR CLASSICS/August 2022 F irst, I would like to thank readers for taking time to reply to the questions posed in last Month’s ...

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10 AIR CLASSICS/August 2022 L ieutenant Colonel Gail S. Halvorsen, the famous “Candy Bomber” of the Berlin Airlift, passed away ...

airclassicsnow.com 11 Col. Halvorsen’s children taking part, along with many of his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Being ...

A t a recent round-table discussion at the Challenge offices, we were bemoaning that fact that the great Warbird and classic air ...

Mustangs, several T-6s, a Beech D18S, Bulldog, L-39 Albatros and a selection of Stearmans. From Oregon, the Erickson Aircraft Co ...

14 AIR CLASSICS/August 2022 Thiel for flying the T-6 camera plane. All money raised at the event goes back into the cost and ope ...

airclassicsnow.com 15 along with four Staggerwings comprising three different models including a rare 1935 B17E, two 1940s D17Ss ...

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T he Casablanca Conference was convened in that famous French Moroccan city on 14 January There, the leaders of the USA, United ...

plan had been put in place for this eventuality. In such an emergency, the 78th FG, the only P-38 unit then based in England, wo ...

20 AIR CLASSICS/August 2022 The 78th FG, comprised of the 82nd, 83rd, and 84th Fighter Squadrons (FS), was activated at Baer Fie ...