September - October 2020

Flight Journal

The Aviation Adventure - Past, Present & Future

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Preserving Aviation History
There was a lot of enthusiasm with the Flight Journal team around the creation of this issue as we had quite a compelling range of features that includes very diverse aircraft. We are in the history preservation business as so many of the stories, pi
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Executive Editor Debra Cleghorn Editors Gerry Yarrish, Matt Boyd Bud Anderson, James P. Busha, Ted Carlson, Robert S. DeGroat, John Dibbs, Jim Farmer, Paul Gillcrist, Phil Haun, Randy Jolly, Frederick Johnsen, Geoffrey P. Jones, Ron Kaplan, Peter Ler
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Hurricane Force
THE FLYING LEGENDS AIRSHOW at Duxford, UK, brings together a magnificent group of WW II U.S. and European aces. Flight Journal has aided in sponsoring a large contingent of the Yanks on hand and joined with them as they revisited the bases they once
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The Magical MERLIN
One of the primary keys to the success of the Hawker Hurricane was the legendary Rolls-Royce Merlin 12-cylinder engine. Both the Hurricane and the Supermarine Spitfire had been designed around the Merlin and were the first to use it, but the V-12’s o
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Terrific Tiltrotor
The Bell Boeing MV-22B Osprey has now been serving in the USMC ranks for over two decades. Combat-tested, the ubiquitous Marine Corps Ospreys are found on the U.S. West Coast, East Coast, Hawaii, Japan, and in combat theaters of operations. Well over
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On the Night Before
Depicted here are C-47 Skytrain military transport aircraft from the 440th Troop Carrier Group inserting units of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment into Normandy, France on the evening of June 5, 1944. The nose art and tail number of the lead air
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Restoring a Classic
The classic Beechcraft D17S Staggerwing first appeared in 1937 and was a follow-on design for Walter Beech of the original fixed gear Model 17 of the early 1930s. It was considered to be one of the finest and fastest aircraft of the time. It was expe
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First Kills!
The North American Aviation F-82 was the last piston-engine fighter to be built, because after World War II all the leading nations started to build up their air forces with jets. It took the Korean War to bring the Twin Mustang into national attenti
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BAILOUT At 70,000 Feet
It would be safe to say that most young Americans who grew up during the Cold War era have a fleeting knowledge of only a few U.S. military aircraft; two of these would definitely be the SR-71 Blackbird and the U-2 Dragon Lady. Both arrived ahead of
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The Silk Elevator
When the jet age arrived, the procedure of abandoning the cockpit by stepping out on the wing rapidly became history. Jet warfare brought on a dangerous era for the pilot because of the excessive speed, which led to the development of the ejection se
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Review Runway
A historical painting is only as good as the story it tells, and how convincingly it combines the people, their actions, costumes, surroundings and atmosphere in an appropriate composition. A good one uses all of these elements to illustrate the majo
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My Life as Rosie the Riveter
I have read about and seen many images about “Rosie the Riveter,” but my story is unique. I was a model with a rivet gun who worked at a factory, and my husband really did fly the very planes that I was advertising to encourage women to build during

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