Digital Single Issues
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Feature Articles
fW 190 STUrMbÖCKe The Luftwaffe’s “Battering Rams” against the USAAF heavy bombers( 10 ) /
Operation Lusty - How Watson’s Whizzers brought Luftwaffe trophy birds home( 10 ) /
American Beauty -“Forgotten Fifteenth” top-scoring Mustang ace John J. Voll( 10 ) /
Zero Myth, Mystery, and fact - A test pilot compares the A6M5 Zero to U.S. Fighters( 10 ) /
December 2023 Issue
$8.99 $8.99 - Add to cartON THE COVER: The late day Florida sun lights up the bright red spinner and aluminum fuselage of Max Chapman’s “American Beauty” with high-time warbird pilot Lee Lauderback at the controls. You can almost hear the roar of this beautifully restored P-51D Mustang’s V-12 Merlin engine as it heads toward the camera ship. (Photo by John Dibbs/Facebook.com/theplanepicture)
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Adventures in the Wairapa wild cat - A New Zealand P-40 Warrior Racks up the Kills( 10 ) /
Stinson AT-19 - The Reliant goes to war( 10 ) /
Noorduyn Norseman - Canada’s Rugged, Fabric-Covered Workhorse( 10 ) /
A Good Landing is One You Can Walk Away From( 10 ) /
Firepower - As an Evolving Weapons Platform( 10 ) /
General Curtis LeMay - Strategic Air Command Creator & Commander( 10 ) /
Ejecting from a Hawker Hunter - Roderick Kurtz punches out after an encounter with a USAF F-35( 10 ) /
Still Flying After All These Years - One of the oldest airworthy J-3 Cubs( 10 ) /
Flying the Messerschmitt Me 109 - Thrilling tales of aerial supremacy( 10 ) /
October 2023 Issue
$8.99 $8.99 - Add to cartON THE COVER: Famous Red Bull and warbird pilot Nigel Lamb brings in the Old Flying Machine Company’s rare P- 40E Kittyhawk in Royal New Zealand markings super close to the camera ship. This plane was test-fl own early in World War II by Kiwi ace Geoff Fiskin and later saw combat in the South Pacifi c on the Island of Tonga. (Photo by John Dibbs/ Facebook.com/theplanepicture)
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Spitfire Spy over China Unauthorized, high-risk photo-recon missions( 10 ) /
“Gentlemen, You Had a Race … ?” - The end of the Reno Air Races( 10 ) /
BA Swallow Slab-sided floater( 10 ) /
Sabre-Rattling - Flying F-100s and F-86s in Korea( 10 ) /
Payback B-25s settle the score on the Rising Sun( 10 ) /
Forgiveness - Lt. Gen. Richard Reynolds on Crashing a $379 Million B-1 Prototype( 10 ) /
Keep the A-10 Flying!( 10 ) /
August 2023 Issue
$8.99 $8.99 - Add to cartON THE COVER: Squadron Leader Andy Milikin brings this ultra-rare, high-altitude, Griff on-powered Spitfi re PR Mk XIX in close to the camera ship in the clouds above the English landscape. This is the 2,000 hp variant and is owned by the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight based at RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire, UK. (Photo by John Dibbs/Facebook. com/theplanepicture.
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Feature Articles
America’s Last Ace( 10 ) /
Rise Phantom - Evolution of the Legendary F-4( 10 ) /
A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing - Major Charles “Bazooka Charlie” Carpenter and his gun-toting L-4 Cub( 10 ) /
Howard DGA GH-2 The “Big Blue Freeloader” Earns Its Keep( 10 ) /
Mustangs over Normandy - P-51s search and destroy targets of opportunity( 10 ) /
“Dams Raid” John “Hoppy” Hopgood, heroic “Dambuster”( 10 ) /
“America” Flies Again - Restoring the Curtiss Seaplane( 10 ) /
June 2023 Issue
$8.99 $8.99 - Add to cartON THE COVER: Stephen Gray gets in super-close to the magical lens of John Dibbs in “Princess Elizabeth” in full D-Day invasion livery. This P-51C Mustang is now owned by the Air Force Heritage Flight Foundation. (Photo by John Dibbs/ Facebook.com/ theplanepicture)
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Feature Articles
TRICOLOR ACE - French pilot Marcel Albert flies Soviet Yaks against the Luftwaffe( 10 ) /
Who’s Afraid of the Dark? - An American Night Fighter Hunts For Prey( 10 ) /
Marauder Mission through hell - Flak decimates a B-26 Bomb Group( 10 ) /
Travel Air A-6000A - Early airborne darling of executives( 10 ) /
“Chippy’s” Cloverleafs - The many lives of DeHavilland Super Chipmunk N7DW( 10 ) /
Adventures of a sabre ace - F-86s and MiGs mix it up over North Korea( 10 ) /
German refugee in Sicily( 10 ) /
It’s the Pilot, Not The Machine( 10 ) /
April 2023 Issue
$8.99 $8.99 - Add to cartON THE COVER: This “new build” Yak-3 banks in tight for the magical camera lens of John Dibbs. When this photo was taken it was part of the So-Cal Wing of the Commemorative Air Force in California and was recently resold by Platinum Fighter Sales to a new collector. It is painted in the Normandy- Niemen Group markings of “White 6,” the fi ghter of French ace Marcel Albert. (Photo by John Dibbs/ Facebook.com/ theplanepicture)
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Feature Articles
Old Crow - Col. Bud Anderson’s airborne reunion with a P-39Q Airacobra( 10 ) /
Fairchild 24 Sean Neal pays tribute to history( 10 ) /
Charming the Snake - Craig Hutain & John Cyrier on flying the Bell P-39 Airacobra( 10 ) /
A Legendary Sortie( 10 ) /
First Bridge - The start of the Vietnam War( 10 ) /
F-117s Over Baghdad - Stealth fighters adapt new tactics in Desert Storm( 10 ) /
The Last Combat - Messerschmitt Bf 109E-3 Wk. Nr. 1342( 10 ) /
February 2023 Issue
$8.99 $8.99 - Add to cartON THE COVER: Chief test pilot Craig Hutain gets some altitude above the camera ship and Oshkosh, Wisconsin in the CAF Central Texas Wing’s P-39Q Airacobra painted in the “Old Crow” livery of Col. Clarence “Bud” Anderson. (Photo by David Leininger)
