Aviation History - January 2016

f-86A: Oldest flying jet returns to america 10 Great air rescues Kamikazes: The original suicide bombers Israeli F-16 strike on ...

May 6 – 12, 2016 Experience England through the Airfields, Towns, and Hangouts of America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War A ...

RETURN FROM THE FRAY By Richard Taylor With the Battle of Britain reaching its crescendo, the tranquillity of a sleepy village i ...

2 AH January 2016 january 2016 5 MAILBAG 6 BRIEFING 12 EXTREMES The Kyushu Shinden proved that not all Japanese aircraft were de ...

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mailbag january 2016 AH 5 LOGBOOK: RAF MUSEUM, HENDON SEND LETTERS TO Aviation History Editor, World History Group 19300 Promena ...

6 AH January 2016 Pilot and P- Reunited T he Lockheed P- Lightning was a tech- nological marvel when Q\IZZQ^MLQV\PM8IKQÅK t ...

january 2016 AH 7 OPPOSITE: (TOP) LOGAN RIELY/ THE GAZETTE ; (BOTTOM) NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WORLD WAR II AVIATION; ABOVE RIGHT: RIM ...

briefing 8 AH January 2016 berlin express P-51B 43-24837, painted in the markings of 357th Fighter Group pilot Bill Overstreet, ...

Those who put on the uniform of the U.S. Air Force put Service Before Self! Now, when you are out of uniform, there’s a casual a ...

briefing 10 AH January 2016 More than 45 years ago, aeromodeling legend Maynard L. Hill (shown below working on one of his trans ...

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12 AH January 2016 extremes D uring the late 1930s and early 1940s, Europeans and Americans tended to characterize Japanese avia ...

january 2016 AH 13 OPPOSITE: NATIONAL ARCHIVES; ILLUSTRATION: STEVE KARP sat between the engine and the pointed nose, where he h ...

14 AH January 2016 Terror at 12,000 Feet AFTER THEIR B-24 WAS CRIPPLED BY FLAK, THE CREWMEN SPOTTED A MESSERSCHMITT JET FIGHTER ...

january 2016 AH 15 PHOTOS: COURTESY OF JOHN L. CHASE And of course we were still carrying two parallel racks of bombs, each weig ...

16 AH January 2016 Sabre Comes Full Circle BRITAIN’S LOSS WAS AMERICA’S GAIN WHEN A HISTORIC F-86A, THE WORLD’S OLDEST FLYING JE ...

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restored 18 AH January 2016 paint scheme to honor Spink, who had been invited to display the airplane at the annual 2011 Tiger M ...