4 - World War I
Issue 4 - Knights of the Sky: Contents
28 May 2010
Founding the Royal Flying Corps... ‘Day One’ of the RAF... ‘King of the Air Fighters’... Sopwith Camel cockpit... Sopwith works... The Camels that came over water... London’s first ‘Blitz’... The ‘Red Baron’... Albatros D.Va sepia photograph... America’s ‘Ace of Aces’... Flying with Daedalus... First to France... Nottingham’s aerial warrior...
Issue 4 - Knights of the Sky: Editors Introduction
27 May 2010.
Called the ‘Great War’, it was a name which described the extensive destruction and impact it left on the world. Highlighting the mass carnage of World War One, when the Battle of the Somme began at 07:30 on 1 July 1916 – following a brief and eerie silence as tens of thousands of men considered their fate in the next few minutes – whistles blew and the first British and French infantrymen left their muddy trenches to meet a deadly hail of machine-gun fire.
Issue 4 - Knights of the Sky: King of the Air Fighters
26 May 2010.
A special preview feature from Aviation Classics - Knight of the Sky - Jarrod Cotter gives an overview of the famous Sopwith Camel, in which pilots shot down more enemy aircraft than any other Allied type during World War One.
Issue 4 - Knights of the Sky: Video
25 May 2010.
Albatros D.Va reproduction World War One aircraft. In 1916 most German aircraft manufacturers were directed to look at what made the Allied Nieuport fighters so effective, and to incorporate those elements into their new aircraft designs.
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.
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• Next issue on sale: 30th March 2012
