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WWII

The era from 1938-1945 in which aircraft development and production increased to meet wartime demand for fighters and bombers and ultimately led to the birth of jet aircraft
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Fairford Sketchbook

An artist's impression of Europe's largest airshow.
July 2003 | By Illustrations by Harry Whitver

Kurdziel buttons up the Firefly’s beastly 12-cylinder Rolls-Royce Griffon engine. A former U.S. Navy pilot, Kurdziel is today a top gun on the airshow circuit, where his Aussie fighter has bagged a number of coveted trophies for aircraft restoration.

The Champ

From the decks of World War II aircraft carriers to today's airshow circuit-the journey of a Royal Australian Navy Fairey Firefly.
July 2003 | By John Sotham

U.S. Navy PBYs flew in every theater of the Pacific War, their long range ideal for patrolling the waters from the Solomon Islands to the Aleutian Islands.

Restoration: Going the Distance

The ninth life of a PBY-5A Cat.
January 2003 | By Phil Scott

CorsairFest

There's a lot more to the F4U than its past association with black sheep.
January 2003 | By Larry Lowe

In 1957 midshipmen launched an N3N from the Severn River in Annapolis.

In the Museum: Sailors' Delight

November 2002 | By Roger A. Mola

Images of the glider in flight (here, a CG-4 prototype) don’t capture the human drama of a CG-4 mission, as the museum’s finished display does.

A Waco's Happy Ending

How an abandoned World War II glider found love in Long Island.
September 2002 | By Joshua Stoff

An original Boeing B-29.

Restoration: Best of Seven

The Boeing B-29
May 2002 | By J. Douglas Hinton

In the Pacific theater of World War II, naval bombers like the Privateer carried the little airplane-like Bat aloft, then released it to find its way, via radar, to its target.

Restoration: The Bat

ASM-N-2 Guided Missle
January 2002 | By Jim Sweeney

All and Nothing

After Pearl Harbor, the Japanese planned to strike the United States with aircraft borne by giant submarines. If it worked, the Atlantic fleet would be trapped.
November 2001 | By Thomas S. Momiyama

The Avengers

They torpedoed enemy ships during World War II. Now they fight fire.
November 2001 | By Marshall Lumsden

Unbreakable

World War II aircraft that were shot to hell—and came back.
November 2001 | By Cory Graff

The Reunion

A fighter pilot, his escort, and one hell of a coincidence.
September 2001 | By John Fleischman

Save the Blimp Base

From this Naval air station airships hunted U-boats in the Florida Keys.
September 2001 | By John Sotham

In the Museum: The Coming Out Party

September 2001 | By Diane Tedeschi

Restoration: Homecoming

Handley Page Halifax under restoration in Canada.
July 2001 | By J. Douglas Hinton

Restoration: Grande Dame

The Lockheed L-1649A Starliner gets a makeover.
May 2001 | By John Sotham

Fishing for Saint-Ex

There's something down there. And it may be Antoine De Saint-Exupéry's P-38.
May 2001 | By Joseph Harriss

One Balloon Bomber (Slightly Used)

First it carried a Japanese bomb 5,000 miles across the Pacific. Then it carried Don Piccard across Minneapolis.
May 2001 | By Don Piccard

The frigid and oxygen-poor water of Norway

Restoration: Desperate Journey

A Junkers Ju 88 is pulled from a Norwegian lake.
March 2001 | By Douglas Hinton

General H.H. Arnold Special

Made in the U.S.S.R.

Of course they copied it. The two airplanes could have been twins. But was the Soviets' Tu-4 truly an exact duplicate of the Boeing B-29?
March 2001 | By Von Hardesty


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