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ON THE COVER:
Climbing above a cloud deck, Boeing B-17G 44-8604 Section Eight of the 335th Bomb Squadron, 95th Bomb Group, heads for a target in Germany. The bomber arrived in England from the USA on 17 December 1944 at Horam, Suffolk. On 23 March 1945, it was damaged while on a raid to the railway marshalling yards at Holzeickede. Heading back to England, it appears the B-17G was attempting to get to the runway at Woodbridge, which was set aside for battle-damaged aircraft. However, it collided with another B-17G and crashed at nearby Campsea Ashe. There were no survivors. (USAAF)

FEATURES:

THE FLIGHT OF OLD GLORY
In the frenzy of long-distance record flights of the late 1920s, a brave crew prepared a Fokker F.VII for a flight from America to Rome / by Howard Carter

REBEL BOMBER!
America’s thousands of surplus WWII aircraft formed a bonanza for third-world dictators and revolutionaries. This is the story of an ex-Navy PB4Y-1 Liberator and the attempt to smuggle it south of the border / by Nicholas A. Veronico

MY TRIP TO MÜNSTER
Worn out by previous missions, the crews of the Flying Fortresses of the 100th Bomb Group set out on 10 October 1943 for a disastrous mission to Germany / by Frank Murphy

SECRET LIVES OF A TEXAN
Navy service, air racing, aerobatics, skywriting, a “sort of” Japanese Zero… and murder. The author learns the many-segmented history of his SNJ-4 Texan / by Benjamin H. Marsh

FORGOTTEN TRIAD 1000
The story of one of the smallest tri-motor transports ever built / by Steve Wolff

DEPARTMENTS:

MESSAGE FROM THE PUBLISHER

WARBIRD & CLASSIC REPORT
All the latest vintage and veteran news from around the world / by Doug Fisher

LOG ENTRIES
Why Gibraltar Airport is one of the most unusual — and historic — in the world / by Mark Bingham

FRIDAY NIGHT OLDIES
Rare Kodachromes of surplus military aircraft / by Doug Fisher

IN THE SHOP
Examining what is known as the “torque roll” / by Bruce Lockwood

THE WILLIAM T. LARKINS COLLECTION
Photographs spanning decades from an American master / by Michael O’Leary

DOWN MEMORY’S RUNWAY
Aircraft from aviation’s glorious past / by Norm Taylor

AIRLINES
News and views from the readers of Air Classics