Flight Journal

Flight Journal is the world’s number one historical aviation brand. It is the go-to publication for those seeking the aviation experience as seen from the cockpit by history-making pilots and through the lenses of the world’s best aviation photographers. The emphasis is on giving readers unexpected aviation information and making them part of landmark experiences in a way that is to be found in no other periodical.

Warbird Madness

Flight Journal

A TALE OF TWO SPITFIRES • From combat to airshows, flying together for more than 80 years

Spitfire LF Mk IX

CONFIDENT COMBATANT • Col. Joseph Peterburs downs a Luftwaffe top ace

FIRST BLOOD • Medal of Honor Recipient “Zeke” Swett’s fight for survival

COMBATANTS COMPARED

MEDAL OF HONOR CITATION

When Lightning First Strikes

DARE TO COMPARE • Wartime pilots fly the icons

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

CAT FIGHT

THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHT FOOT

DESERT DOGS

HIGH LADY

DOUBLE TROUBLE

MEDAL OF HONOR FIGHTERS • The highest award for extreme service

FIGHTER MEDALS OF HONOR AT A GLANCE

SHORT STUFF • Size doesn’t matter to a fighter pilot

“JUG” SPOKEN HERE • More than 15,600 P-47 Thunderbolts were produced from 1941-1945 in a wide variety of models, so we’ll try to sort them out.

The Ever-Evolving Schwalbe

SUMMER OF HELL • Life and death of the Pumas

THE “ACE OF SPADES” GUSTAV GESCHWADER

Fighter Stats

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