ON THE COVER:
Dramatic image of Erickson Aircraft Collection’s B-17G Ye Olde Pub. (TWS)

FEATURES:

KEEPING THE FORTS FLYING
The Warbird Shop has come up with an innovative program to re-spar airworthy B-17 Flying Fortresses that will keep these veterans flying for many years to come / by Scott Thompson

FORGOTTEN RACE
It was planned to be the first of a series of major air races that would take place in the San Francisco Bay area, but the 1938 Pacific International Air Races would not achieve the hoped-for success / by Tim Weinschenker

YANKEE SPITFIRE
This flying Supermarine Spitfire honors the American pilots that flew the type as part of the Reverse Lend-Lease program of WWII / by Darren Harbar

AMERICAN WEST FIRST
We kick off the first in a series of articles that honor the 90th anniversary of the first flight of the Douglas DC-3 – the aircraft that truly changed the world. In this feature, we examine the DC-3s of the types launch customer – American Airlines – through a series of rare photographs / by Michael O’Leary

DEPARTMENTS:

MESSAGE FROM PUBLISHER

WARBIRD & CLASSIC REPORT
Vintage and veteran aircraft news from around the world. We also examine the restoration of what will become the world’s only airworthy CASA 2.111 – the Spanish-built variant of the Heinkel He 111 bomber / by Doug Fisher

LOG ENTRIES
How the flying machine and war became quickly linked / by Mark Bingham

FRIDAY NIGHT OLDIES
More great Kodachromes of surplus ex-military aircraft / by Doug Fisher

DOWN MEMORY’S RUNWAY
American aircraft from aviation’s glorious past / by Adam Stanton

AIRLINES
News and views from the readers of Air Classics