December 2021 Articles

• Editor’s note: Clive Rowley has contributed several features in recent issues of Flight Journal. Here he treats us to some excerpts from his new autobiographical book, “Lightnings to Spitfires.” The Lightning The English Electric (later BAC) Lightning was a remarkable and innovative British design. It was the first British aircraft able to sustain supersonic speeds […]

  

  Lightnings to Spitfires – A lifetime as a fighter pilot

  Editor’s note: Clive Rowley has contributed several features in recent issues of Flight Journal. Here he treats us to some excerpts from his new autobiographical book, “Lightnings to Spitfires.” The Lightning The English Electric (later BAC) Lightning was a remarkable and innovative British design. It was the first British aircraft able to sustain supersonic speeds […]
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• By the end of WW II, more than 8,000 D.H.82s had been built. Large numbers were disposed of as war surplus and were available on the civil market for as little as £50. A number were the subject of conversion schemes. The most ambitious was that carried out by Jackaroo Aircraft, Thruxton, Hampshire, England in […]

  

  The rarest of Tigers

  By the end of WW II, more than 8,000 D.H.82s had been built. Large numbers were disposed of as war surplus and were available on the civil market for as little as £50. A number were the subject of conversion schemes. The most ambitious was that carried out by Jackaroo Aircraft, Thruxton, Hampshire, England in […]
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• The movies “Tora! Tora! Tora!” and “Pearl Harbor” give us the erroneous impression that the only American defenders over Oahu were two Army Air Force (AAF) P-40 pilots. In fact, a number of pilots managed to make it into the air and battle the attackers. This combat ranged all over the island and was not […]

  

  The Ghosts of Pearl Harbor – The Heroes Facts and Figures

  The movies “Tora! Tora! Tora!” and “Pearl Harbor” give us the erroneous impression that the only American defenders over Oahu were two Army Air Force (AAF) P-40 pilots. In fact, a number of pilots managed to make it into the air and battle the attackers. This combat ranged all over the island and was not […]
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• “The pride in my Dad’s eyes … that’s what I remember. He passed away three years later. But he got to see it—the ceremony—the one where the wing commander awarded me two Distinguished Flying Crosses for heroism in the SAM-filled skies of North Vietnam, December, 1972. Proudest moment of my life. Leading a cell of […]

  

  Celebrating 70 unbelievable years of B-52s

  “The pride in my Dad’s eyes … that’s what I remember. He passed away three years later. But he got to see it—the ceremony—the one where the wing commander awarded me two Distinguished Flying Crosses for heroism in the SAM-filled skies of North Vietnam, December, 1972. Proudest moment of my life. Leading a cell of […]
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• Considering that the United States was in the grips of a serious depression and the Midwest food basket was experiencing a drought of biblical proportions, the aviation accomplishments of 1935–40 seem out of place. But the same thing was happening worldwide: The universal mantra was “The biplane is dead. Long live the monoplane—and bring on […]

  

  Already Flying Before Pearl Harbor

  Considering that the United States was in the grips of a serious depression and the Midwest food basket was experiencing a drought of biblical proportions, the aviation accomplishments of 1935–40 seem out of place. But the same thing was happening worldwide: The universal mantra was “The biplane is dead. Long live the monoplane—and bring on […]
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• “Steve knew five or ten minutes before we went down that he was probably going to die but that he’d be giving me a chance to get out of it.” The thought didn’t occur to Marine Corps Captain Mike Brown until days after a sortie he flew with Air Force Captain Steve Bennett on June […]

  

  Bronco Bravery: Captain Steve Bennett, Captain Mike Brown and the Medal of Honor

  “Steve knew five or ten minutes before we went down that he was probably going to die but that he’d be giving me a chance to get out of it.” The thought didn’t occur to Marine Corps Captain Mike Brown until days after a sortie he flew with Air Force Captain Steve Bennett on June […]
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