Flight Journal

Article“Quite Easily Done”

Mid America Flight Museum brings the Gee Bee QED II back to life

By Jan Tegler

ArticleSpy Taxi

Westland Lysander’s midnight missions behind enemy lines THE RUGGED SHORT TAKEOFF and landing Westland Lysander was a failure in the role for which it was originally intended, army cooperation, but it found a wartime niche for which it was...

By Clive Rowley, MBE RAF (Ret.)

ArticleIvory Coast Nightmare

Flying supplies, soldiers and aid workers in treacherous West Africa FROM BESIDE AN ARMORED PERSONNEL CARRIER, we watched rebels walk toward a pair of French Army officers standing in a wind-parched patch of grass. The tableau adjacent to a...

By Robert S. Grant

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Ready for its 1,425hp Wright 1820 radial engine to roar to life, the Mid America Flight Museum’s beautifully restored Gee Bee QED II sits on the tarmac in Mt. Pleasant, Texas. (Photo by Jim Buxton)

Flight Journal

ArticleThe Last Flying Phantom

America’s only airworthy F-4D returns to the sky AT ABOUT 4:45 PM ON JUNE 7, Harry “D-Day” Daye released the brakes of the Vietnam War Flight Museum’s F-4D Phantom at Ellington Field near Houston and pushed its throttles into...

By Jan Tegler

ArticleGallery: Curtiss JN-4H Jenny

Although the closest that the Curtiss JN series of two-seat biplanes (most often known as “Jennys”) ever got to combat was in 1916 and 1917 when eight JN-3s provided aerial support for General Jack Pershing’s unsuccessful expedition into...

TEXT AND PHOTOS BY FRANK B. MORMILLO