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ON THE COVER:
This combat veteran B-17G Flying Fortress at Kingman, Arizona, should have been preserved for history — just imagine the stories that all those combat missions could tell. However, it and thousands of others were chopped apart and fed into smelters.

FEATURES:

MYSTERY OF THE MISSING FORT
The strange tale of a ghostly B-17G and how a group of pro-Israeli aviators attempted to get this clandestine bomber to the Middle East / by Scott Thompson

LIGHTNINGS OVER REYKJAVIK
Today, the story of how Great Britain and the USA invaded this neutral island is virtually forgotten. In Part One, we examine how the USAAF began to build up a strong defensive force on a very remote piece of real estate / by Steve Blake

COLORS OF WAR
In this issue, we take a look at a wide variety of military aircraft / by Michael O’Leary

PHOENIX FALCON
Bringing a badly damaged Curtiss SNC-1 Falcon back to museum display condition in Uruguay / by Ramiro S. Piacenza

MY TOUR WITH SPOOKY
The author takes his AC-47D gunship to war against the enemy / by William Pratt

DEPARTMENTS:

MESSAGE FROM THE PUBLISHER

WARBIRD & CLASSIC REPORT
Wide variety of vintage and veteran aircraft news from around the world / by Doug Fisher

LOG ENTRIES
Remembering Ernie Pyle — the first American aviation columnist / by Mark Bingham

IN THE SHOP
How supercharging won the war / by Bruce Lockwood

DOWN MEMORY’S RUNWAY
How supercharging won the war / by Bruce Lockwood

DOWN MEMORY’S RUNWAY
Great aircraft from aviation’s long history / by Norm Taylor

AIRLINES
News and views from the readers of Air Classics