Digital Single Issues

ON THE COVER: Gavin Conroy’s camera captures the unusual fuselage shape of the Me 262. What it doesn’t show is that the interior cockpit portion of the fuselage was built as a completely separate, designed-to-be-pressurized “tub” that was completed and fit into the fuselage from below. The Stormbird reproduction 262s replace the troublesome Jumo engines with modern G.E. J-85/CJ610 engines as used in T-38s and corporate aircraft. The aircraft pictured is owned and operated by the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach, Virginia. (Photo by Gavin Conroy)

ON THE COVER: Photographer David Leininger captures the essence of an airplane when that essence includes the ability to dive nearly straight down to deliver bombs on a target. The dive brakes, the bombs, the subtle look of efficiency—it’s all there. Dan Friedkin owns this ultra-rare forerunner of the Mustang. (Photo by David Leininger)