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Add To Cart$1.99The HorsemenAn intimate look into the making of the most talked about warbird flight team in the world.
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Add To Cart$1.99The L-5 Sentinel Ungainly EleganceDr. Joe Nelson has lovingly restored a Stinson L-5 Sentinel. Jim Russell brings the story of this octogenarian aviator who has had a passion for flight for over sixty years.
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Add To Cart$1.99The Legacy FlightOver forty years ago a flying model of a PT-19 planted the seeds for a project that would come to fruition in 2005. Jim Russell brings the moving story of a dream fulfilled.
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Add To Cart$1.99The Little Duck That CouldLt. Colonel Mike Jackson gives readers a glimpse of what it was like to fly the Oscar Deuce in combat over Vietnam.
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Add To Cart$1.99The Maniyak ReturnsBill Lewallen recently completed the total rebuild of his Yak-11. Peter Ruddle describes the significant restoration and its conversion from a Reno racer to an ultimate sport-plane warbird.
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Add To Cart$1.99The Perfect DealBob DeFord decided he wanted a Spitfire, and since it was beyond his economic means, he set about to build one from scratch. Scott Germain describes how he did it.
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Add To Cart$1.99The Pugilists Reno ‘08The 2008 edition of the National Championship Air Races was the first in many years to feature all of the top contenders in the Unlimited Championship race. There was plenty of activity and drama leading up to those seven laps and Scott Germain was there to report for Warbird Digest readers.
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Add To Cart$1.99The Reno That Wasn’t: A Crewmember’s Week at MindenScott Germain tells a story that epitomizes the dedication of racing crews. He chronicles the efforts of The Galloping Ghost racing team and owner Jimmy Leeward, to attain the unattainable. Scott was there, not as a journalist but as an official member of the team.
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Add To Cart$1.99The Return of GrumpyWhen John Sessions acquired the B-25 Grumpy from Vulcan Warbirds, he conspired to revisit history on an adventurous return. Grumpy and the dedicated crew flew the same route used by ferry pilots when delivering aircraft to Europe during World War Two.
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Add To Cart$1.99The Scorpion’s TaleLyle Jansma chronicles the recovery of a cold war relic, an F-89 Scorpion. As winter made a frigid appearance in October of 2009, a dedicated team of volunteers from the Heritage Flight Museum undertook the daunting task of disassembling and transferring the jet from Helena, Montana to Bellingham, Washington.
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Tuna Flying HogsLt Col Charlie “Tuna” Hainline recounts his experience flying the Lone Star Flight Museum’s P-47 Thunderbolt Tarheel Hal.
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Add To Cart$1.99The Thousand Plane RaidScott Thompson discusses this often overlooked film and the prominent role the B-17 played in its production.