Flight Journal - July - August 2023

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FEATURES : Sabre-Rattling - Flying F-100s and F-86s in Korea, “Gentlemen, You Had a Race … ?” - The end of the Reno Air Races, Spitfire Spy over China - Unauthorized, high-risk photo-recon missions, Payback - B-25s settle the score on the Rising Sun, Flying the Roc! - Stratolaunch test pilot Evan Thomas on flying - the world’s largest operational airplane, Forgiveness - Lt. Gen. Richard Reynolds on crashing a, Gallery: BA Swallow Slab-sided floater, Keep the A-10 Flying!

SABRE-RATTLING - Flying F-100s and F-86s in Korea

I GREW UP IN TOLEDO, OHIO with my mother, who provided the most influence in my life and my two sisters. My father, who was a World War I veteran, had died when I was only seven years old, right at the beginning of the Second World War.

10+ mins

"GENTLEMEN, YOU HAD A RACE ...The end of the Reno Air Races BY JAN TEGLER ייף

It has been almost 59 years since legendary pilot Bob Hoover first uttered the famous words, “Gentlemen, you have a race!”

2 mins

SPITFIRE SPY - over China

Unauthorized, high-risk photo-recon missions

10+ mins

PAYBACK - B-25s settle the score on the Rising Sun

As I sat silently in my B-25-shrewdly named \"Fickle Finger of Fate\"awaiting the signal from the Navy deckhand to start my engines, I thought long and hard about how I ended up here and about the unknown that lay ahead.

10+ mins

FLYING THE ROC!

Stratolaunch test pilot Evan Thomas on flying the world's largest operational airplane

10 mins

BA Swallow - Slab-sided floater

The British Aircraft (BA) Swallow originated in Germany in 1927 as the Klemm L.25, a tandem two-seat, low-wing, all-wood monoplane. Klemm first exported to Britain in March 1929 and started a small \"flood.\"

2 mins

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Flight Journal Magazine Description:

Flight Journal is like no other aviation magazine in the world, covering the world of flight from its simple beginnings to its high-tech, no-holds- barred future. We put readers in the cockpit and let them live the thrill and adventure of the aviation experience, narrated by those who know the technology and made the history. The spectacular photography – from air-to-air shots to rarely seen archival photos–enhances each and every story. Each issue brings the stories of flight–past, present and future – to life.