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FIRST THUNDERSTORM CHASERS
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MAKING
THE BLUE MAX
CELEBRATING 25 YEARS
The flying circus
that opened up
Britain’s skies
Last hop for the
Marines’ beloved
CH-46 Battle Phrog
Why Northrop’s P-61 was
poison to Japanese
night raiders
BLACK
WIDOW
JULY 2015
P-47
VS.
ME-109
in the Battle of the Bulge
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CELEBRATING 25 YEARS
FEATURES
22 Black Widow’s Web
By Stephan Wilkinson
The malevolent-looking Northrop P-61 became a
legend in its own time, but does it deserve its
vaunted reputation?
By Steve Zuger
In 1946 a group of brave airmen volunteered
to help peel back the layers of mystery
surrounding severe weather.
By Steve Blake
Ninth Air Force P-47s came out on top in a wild
dogfight with the Luftwaffe above the Ardennes.
By Derek O’Connor
British aviation visionary Alan Cobham set out to
sell the world on long-distance air travel.
By Frank Lorey III
Veteran CH-46 crews wouldn’t have traded their Sea
Knights for any other helicopter—not in Vietnam,
Iraq or Afghanistan.
By Don Hollway
Today’s computer-generated flight scenes can’t
compare to the real thing in a World War I epic
filmed 50 years ago.
30 Project Thunderstorm
34 ‘Indians’ Over the Bulge
40 Sir Alan’s Flying Circus
46 Swan Song for the Battle Phrog
54 Making
The Blue Max
DEPARTMENTS
6 Mailbag
8 Briefing
14 Extremes
A U.S. Marine drops
from a CH-46 Sea
Knight of HMM-163
during an exercise in
the Indian Ocean in
2011 (story, P. 46).
By Robert Guttman
Miles’ dragonfly-like Libellula was originally designed
as a carrier aircraft.
By John Lowery
RF-80 pilot John Rhoads died just before the Korean
armistice took effect.
By Dick Smith
Pima’s newly refurbished P-39N Airacobra fought in
the South Pacific.
16 Aviators
18 Restored
Cover:
A P-61 creeps up
on its next victim, in a
painting by Jack Fellows.
Northrop’s Black Widow
arrived late in the Pacific
War, but quickly ruled the
night skies (story, P. 22).
Cover: ©1990 Jack Fellows, ASAA
Above: U.S. Navy
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Letter From Aviation History
Reviews
Flight Test
By Jon Guttman
Aero Poster
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