Videos
B-17 Bomber crash, June 13, 2011
15 June 2011
A B-17 bomber crashed in a field southeast of the Aurora Municipal Airport. All seven people aboard escaped unharmed.
P-51 Mustang - Take off/Landing
27 January 2010.
Take off and landing footage from the cockpit of a P-51 Mustang. The aircraft is P-51D 44-13521 Marinell on take off from Fowlmere on 15th August 2009, almost 65 years to the day it took off from there and was shot down over France on a low level bombing mission.
Current Issue: Lockheed P-38 Lightning
On January 27, 1939, Lockheed test pilot Ben Kelsey took the prototype XP-38 Lightning into the air for the first time. The big, twin-engined, twin-boomed fighter was to become one of the most easily identifiable fighters of the Second World War, and was to be the only US fighter aircraft to remain in production throughout the conflict. Its unusual design had a number of advantages. The guns, being grouped close together in the nose, gave the P-38 a tremendous concentration of firepower. The tricycle undercarriage made ground handling simple when compared with the tailwheel designs common to the period. The P-38 was used across the world, undertaking long range fighter escort, fighter-bomber and reconnaissance missions in Europe as well as across the Pacific and Far East.
This issue of Aviation Classics tells the whole story of this ground breaking aircraft, as well as the people behind the development and operational success of this beautiful machine.
PLUS:
• Next issue on sale: 30th March 2012
