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INDIANA’S DOOLITTLE RAIDER
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ONE-OF-A-KIND LOCKHEED VEGA
THE LOST
SQUADRON
Why 22 Marine
F4U CORSAIRS
ditched in the Pacific without
firing a shot in combat
A-4 SKYHAWK
What made Heinemann’s
Hot Rod so sensational?
U-2
pilot’s night dead-stick
landing in Colorado
MARTIN MERCATOR
Hybrid piston-jet sky spy
JANUARY 2015
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Surprise French bomber
raid on Berlin
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FEATURES
20
The Lost Squadron
By Mark Carlson
In one of the U.S. Marines Corps’ worst air disasters,
six pilots and 22 Corsairs were lost in the Pacific.
By John Golan
With his A-4 Skyhawk, pioneering designer
Ed Heinemann succeeded in doing what some
experts thought was impossible.
By Stephan Wilkinson
A Republic of China Air Force pilot pulled off an
amazing night dead-stick landing in a U-2.
28
Heinemann’s Hot Rod
34
Dragon Lady Down
Target: Berlin
Cold Warrior
40
By C.G. Sweeting
An antiquated French bomber carried out
WWII’s first air raid on the German capital.
By Robert F. Dorr
Martin’s Mercator reconnaissance plane was
powered by both reciprocating and jet engines.
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50
On Assignment: A Newsman’s
Frozen Odyssey
By Joseph J. Caro
After the W33
Bremen
crashed off Labrador
in 1928, Eddie Jackson risked everything to
get the scoop on the first east-west nonstop
transatlantic flight.
DEPARTMENTS
6
8
14
Mailbag
Briefing
Restored
By Stephan Wilkinson
The only surviving metal-fuselage
Lockheed Vega is back in the air.
16
Extremes
By Edward H. Phillips
Alfred Lawson’s innovative L-4 airliner
was sadly underpowered.
18
58
Letter From Aviation History
Aviators
By Erick E. Eastes
B-25 bombardier Bud Miller targeted
Tokyo in Doolittle’s Raid.
An F-2G Corsair
creates vortices
as it flies through
thick cloud cover.
In January 1944, a
squadron of Marine
Corsairs flew into a
heavy storm, with
disastrous results
(story, P. 20).
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66
Reviews
Flight Test
By Jon Guttman
Aero Poster
Cover:
Brad Hood pilots a Goodyear FG-1D
Corsair painted in the markings of U.S. Navy
ace Ira Kepford of the VF-17 “Jolly Rogers.”
Cover & Above: Paul Bowen Photography
JANUARY 2015
AV I AT I O N H I S T O RY
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