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How CIERVA’S autogiros helped win the Battle of Britain
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5 MAILBAG
6 BRIEFING
12 EXTREMES
E.G. Budd’s stainless steel
cargo plane featured a
retractable tail ramp.
By Robert Guttman
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now you see it
A Lockheed F-117
Nighthawk from the
49th Fighter Wing flies
over New Mexico.
14 AVIATORS
“Matty” Laird designed
and built custom air
racers during aviation’s
golden age.
By Edward H. Phillips
16 RESTORED
Quantico’s SBD Dauntless
spent nearly half a century
underwater.
By Mark Carlson
features
The first U.S. warplane to feature top-secret stealth technology,
Lockheed’s F-117 gained a reputation as the world’s most
invisible aircraft.
By Charles W. Sasser
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THE BLACK JET
19 LETTER FROM
AVIATION HISTORY
58 REVIEWS
63 FLIGHT TEST
64 AERO ARTIFACT
P-47 proponent Colonel Neel Kearby pushed his luck too far
in pursuit of Eddie Rickenbacker’s shootdown record.
By John Stanaway
36
NIGHT OWL
36
Heinkel’s radar-laden He-219 Uhu night fighter was designed
from the ground up to play in the dark.
By Stephan Wilkinson
On July 19, 1918, seven Sopwith Camels struggled aloft from
an improvised aircraft carrier to bomb German zeppelin sheds
in Denmark.
By Don Hollway
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THE TONDERN RAID
RAF Rota pilots played a vital yet unheralded role in the
Battle of Britain.
By Bruce H. Charnov
ON THE COVER:
Two Lockheed F-117 Nighthawks line up for aerial refueling during a training mission out of Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. The stealthy
“Black Jets” bombed enemy targets with impunity in the 1991 Gulf War and in 1999 during the Kosovo conflict (story, P. 20). Cover: Lance Cheung/Legion Photo.
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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: ©JOHN M. DIBBS/THE PLANE PICTURE CO.; SAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM:
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE U.S. AIR FORCE; COURTESY OF WOLFGANG MUEHLBAUER
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