What If Fleet Air Arm A3D
Whereas the US Navy was able to have a strategic role in the 1950s thanks to the large war-built Midway class carriers and the new supercarriers of the Forrestal class, the Royal Navy had...
Category: Aviation
F7F Tigercat
Even as the US Navy was struggling to enter the monoplane age, it was also looking forwards to a new generation of aircraft far more powerful than the Grumman F4F then entering service. Grumman’s...
Air Classics Index
January 1981 Richard Schweinfurth “African Combat Diary Part Two” B-17 Gordon Riley “California Gipsy” S. Samuel Bogohosian “Gathering of Warbirds” John Tegler “Hard-Charging at Reno” “Warbird Report” Planes of Fame Bf 109K, B-26 N3710G,...
Review: American Secret Projects 2: US Airlifters 1941-1961
If you are a fan of “what if” aviation, this is a must-have book, spanning some 304 pages, nearly all of which are absolutely packed with drawings, photos, and other illustrations. But more than...
C-82 Packet walk around
The first of Fairchild’s “flying boxcars” the C-82 Packet was among the first transports to be designed from the start for military work, rather than being a derivative of an airliner. The C-82’s high-mounted...
C-119J walk around
Even as the C-82 was entering service, there was planning for an improved XC-82B version with R-4360 engines, a stretched fuselage with the cockpit further forward and lowered for better visibility, and extended tail...
Review: Consolidated B-24 Liberator: Production Line to Frontline
Consolidated B-24 Liberator: Production Line to Frontline by Michael O’Leary; softcover, 144 pages Highlights: Building a Bomber – views of production line, some good shots of subassemblies PBY-1 with KU3N-1 anti-ship missile EZB-24M ice...
Boeing E-6A Hermes
The last new-build military version of the venerable Boeing 707, the E-6A was procured to provide a more capable successor to the Lockheed EC-130 in the Navy’s TACAMO (Take Charge and Move Out) submarine...
GC-130 Hercules Ground Trainer
Lacking wings and a tail, this Hercules finished out its days as a GC-130 ground trainer with the Air Force Reserve’s 911th Airlift Wing at Pittsburgh. The trainer was later given over to the...
THE AEROSPACE TREASURES OF DAYTON: A PHOTOGRAPHIC LOOK INSIDE THE WORLD’S LARGEST MILITARY AVIATION MUSEUM 100 pages, print edition, all-color!Fulfilled by Amazon US
