Flight Journal

Flight Journal is the world’s number one historical aviation brand. It is the go-to publication for those seeking the aviation experience as seen from the cockpit by history-making pilots and through the lenses of the world’s best aviation photographers. The emphasis is on giving readers unexpected aviation information and making them part of landmark experiences in a way that is to be found in no other periodical.

Airpower Extremes

Flight Journal

THE Fairey Swordfish • Antiquated, yet devastatingly effective

Swordfish Pilot Report • This review of flying the Swordfish, by British test pilot Peter Wilson, first appeared in print in 1946.

MUSTANGS OVER IWO • Inside the 506th Fighter Group’s long-range missions

DESPERATE MEASURES • Volksjäger, the Luftwaffe’s last hope

“Forked-Tail” Devil • Lockheed P-38 Lightning

THE HIGH-VELOCITY RAPTOR • High-speed, unseen, dogfighting machine

Tuskegee RED TAILS • The men, the machines, the missions

The ever-evolving fighter • Curtiss-Wright P-40

Mitchells over the Mediterranean • Wavetop warfare: skip-bombing and big guns

Keep Those Ponies Rollin’ • A Mustang’s wing and fuselage are mated at the North American Aviation Plant in Los Angeles, California in late 1943. From 1941 to 1946, a total of 15,586 P-51s were built, with more than 8,000 of those being D variants.

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