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'Aerospace Historian' was a quarterly magazine covering the history of American aviation - with an emphasis on the USAF. It contained feature articles on commercial aviation, technology, WW2 air battles, personalities, aircraft restorations etc, but not specific aircraft types. Also included were first hand accounts, book reviews, museum news, current events etc. Normally 72 (A4 size) pages in each issue, with b+w photos. The magazine was initially published under the title 'Air Power Historian' (September 1954-April 1959), became 'Airpower Historian' (July 1959-July 1965) and then 'Aerospace Historian' (September 1965-December 1988) before adopting it's present title of 'Air Power History


YearMonthCondition & ContentsPrice
1987September 40th Anniversary of USAF; 31 Year Gestatinn; Atomic Bomb; Planing & Organization; Stuart Symington (1st Secretary of AF 1947-50); Develoment of the Uniform; Literary & Historical Legacy 1947-1987; Museums Around the AF $3.00

March F-84E; F-84F; F-100 Super Sabre; Test Flying the F-100; French Aerospace Challenge; B-47 ; Latin American Aviation; Wind Tunnell AFHF Report $3.00

December DC-9; Creation of the First Canadian Transatlantic Air Service 1935-43; Aircraft Carriers & Mediterranean 1940-43; Assessing the Japanese Threat prior to Pearl Harbor; Lt. Gen Ian Eaker; Loss of Legislative Veto$3.00
1988March Evolution of Automated Launch; B-24 Liberator; Growth of Aeronauticl Technolgy in France 1900-50; MiG-51; 1110th Air Support Group Balloon Operations $3.00

September Hill AF Bae; Confrontations in Columbia; Birdmen of Middle East; Battle Against Mauna Loa; Ma. Gen Robert Cosey; Richard Hillary & BOB; B-24; Twelve O'Clock High Revisited; Airway Communication $3.00

December Douglas A-20G recovery in Australia; Topedo; Republic of Korea AF; Early Soviet Ballistic Missile Devise; Dyna Soar X-20 Project; Soutwest Pacific; B-17F$3.00
1991Spring None but the Fit Shall Fly; Medical Services Achieves Independence; Operation Frantic; Search for Lt. Burnett; Aerospace Doctrine; Wings - a Movie & Inspiration$3.00

Summer 1927 Flight of "Bird of Paradise"; 1942-45 RAF/USAAF Command Relatinsips; 8th & 15th AF in WW II; Cruise Missiles; A. W. Greely, Father of Military Aviation $3.00

Fall Desert Shield/Desert Storm; RAF-USAAF Strategic Air Offence in Europe; Researching the Air War Against North Vietnam $3.00
1992Spring Patriot Missile; German War Doctrine 1919-20; Military Air Transport Service; Who Fears Unit History; Yamamoto Aerial Victory Credit Controversy$3.00

Summer Doolittle Raid; Battle of Midway; Malcom Grow's 1934 Alasan Flight; USAF Enlisted Force; USAF Medical Service to the Gulf; Persain Gulf War; Bomber Navigation $3.00

Fall WW I German Observer Balloonman Parachuting; LTA 1920s & 1930s; Chinese-american Composite Wing; Gen. Eaker - Creator of 8th AF; Morality in Fighting & Strategic Bombing$3.00

Winter Space Shuttle; Casualties of the Cold War; Land War against Iraq; Black Hole $3.00
1993Summer Victory though Air Power; Radar's Eye; USAAF 1941-1951 - Segregation to Integration; Development of Helicopter as an Anti-Submarine Weapon; F's Helicopter Combat Operations in Korea 1950-53 $3.00
1994Spring Voodoo - Testing the F-101; B-29; Chennaults Trapezers; RAF Girds for War 1933-39; Martin's B-10; NASO 1986-91$3.00

Summer Strategic Bombing & Normandy Invasion; Air Superiority ove Luftwaffe; Air Power Against Rommel; Dropping the Airborne; Invasian Area Map; Patton's Army; D-Day Bibliography $3.00

Fall History of Flying Wing; Signal Corps No. 1; D-Day Remembered; Aerial Recovery of Space Objects; USAF in Southeast Asia; Development of Gulf Air War Campaigns$3.00

Winter Jungles of Papua-New Guinea 1943; Fighter Command & Tactical Air Reserves during BOB; History of Flying Wing, pt. 2 $3.00
1995Spring RAF Western Desert AF, 1942; Admiral's Revolt of 1949; Secret of Brunei Bay; Demise of the USAFs Warrant Officer Program$3.00

Winter Concept of Air Power; 1st Aero Squadron Truck Transport & Punitive Expedition of 1916; Sherman Fairchild; Gunnery Training at Tyndall Field 1941-45; MiG-21s versus USAF 1967-68 $3.00
1996Summer Air Power & Asymmetric Force Strategy; Ball Turret; Israelie Bombing 1969-70; Shannon; Last 2 Weeks of Bombing in Desert Storm $3.00
1997Spring Air Power on Ho Chi Minh Trail; A-bombs, Budgets & Morality; Soviet Pilots in Korean War; Pearl Harbor - A Lesson $3.00

Fall Special Edition: USAF Yearbook 1947 $3.00

Winter Origins of Lanley field 1916-21; Strategic Air War Concepts in Germany 1919-39; Modifying the B-52; Gemni Ejection Seat Development$3.00
1998Spring Herbicedal Spraying in Southeast Asia; Ju-4; Leaflet Dropping in WW II; Photo Reconnaissance - The Early Years $3.00

Summer Origin of Wind Tunnel in Europe 1871-1900; Attack Aviation in Germany, 1918; Air Transport on Eve of Pearl Harbor; RAF & Flying Fortress 1941 $3.00

Fall Berlin Airlift 1948-49 - Special Issue on 50th Anniversary; Hauing the Frieght- U.S. Army; Cartoons of Jake Schuffert$3.00
1999Summer Gen. Benjamin O. Davis; Combat Operations in Korea 1950-53; Charles Lindbergh; Gen. Kenney in Soutwest Pacific 1942-43 $3.00

Winter Nieuport 28 Wing; Space Power Upon History 1944-98; Civilian Casualties in Vietnam; Lt. Denis Alison; Alaskan P-39 Restoration $3.00
2000Summer Special Issue on U.S. Airforce in Korea 1950-53 $3.00
2003Summer Operation Hajji Baba; Establishing the Bundesluftwaffe as a Modern AF, 1955-60; Yamamoto Mission; Resurrection of Bill McGlynn's Flying Fortress $3.00

Winter Robert McNamara's WW II Service; Kennedy Space Poicy Reconsidered; RF-86A Saber in Tactical Reconnaissance Operations during Korean War; FACs of Vietnam; Georgi Mosolov$3.00
2004Spring British Aircraft in Russia; SB-17 & SB-29 Combat Operations in Korea; Oil Targets in Japan, 1945; Gen. Bernard Schriever; Uniforms of the Past$3.00

Winter Eisenhowe & Ballist Missle Defense, 1944-62; Lt. Gen. Forrest McCartney; Race to the Moon; Unwanted Allies$3.00




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