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Dear Fellow Aviation Lover, On the back, you’ll even find Red, White &
New & Noteworthy............................................3 Blue favorites just in time for the 4thof July! So
Avast! Have ye seen? There be Corsairs here! don’t delay; page through this edition of Historic
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Early Aviation/ World War I..............................4 Hobby Master’s first Corsair and first F-16 Thanks,
(page 38), you’ll also find:
Allies & Central Powers....................................5
Germany...........................................................6 • The first giant, 1/32 scale kit of the B-25J
Mitchell (page 12)
WORLD WAR II
• New DVDs on the B-17, the U.S. Army’s
“Birddogs,” and others
• Nearly a dozen new titles in the ever-popular
Between the Wars............................................7 Greg Herrick
Images of Americaseries on air bases and air-
The Home Front...............................................8
fields (pages 45 and 52) P.S. If you aren’t sure of Playboy’s
USAAF..............................................................9
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U.S. Bombers............................................10-13
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Fighters......................................................14-19
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Liason/Battle of Britain..................................20 • And much more!
Royal Air Force/Soviet..................................21
Italy.................................................................22
F4U-1A
Luftwaffe....................................................22-25
Corsair Die Cast Model
Pearl Harbor / Wake Island............................26 New Tooling!
The newest member of Hobby
Japan..............................................................27 Master’s line of 1/48 scale,
War in the Pacific...........................................28 die cast World War II war-
U.S. Navy Fighters.........................................29 birds has arrived, and it’s
ready to sail into your collection today!
Military Areplica of a Vought F4U Corsair, a
U.S. Navy and Marine Corps carrier-
capable fighter that entered service in
U.S. Navy in the 1950s..................................30 late 1942, this newly-tooled model has:
U.S. Air Force in Korea...................................31 On the Cover: • Engraved panel and hatch lines and
The Homecoming simulated fabric texturing on its wing
The Middle East /Cuba..................................32
John Shaw. Entering San and tail surfaces
Strategic Air Command...................................33 Francisco Bay, returning veterans • Awell-equipped cockpit with instru-
Century Series Jets........................................34 of World War II’s Pacific Theater ments, a control stick, a pilot figure,
Historic
Vietnam Era....................................................35 witness the joy of the nation they Aviation and a sliding canopy
U.S. Navy.......................................................36 saved as “Black Sheep” Corsairs exclu- • Adetailed Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp radial
fly an aerial salute above. Signed sive! engine front with a rotating propeller (whose three blades
Attack Planes & Bombers..............................37 by the artist and multiple veterans These are so accurately reproduced they even include miniature
Modern Fighters.............................................38 of the Pacific War, this numbered 4“e"nx d5 "o fr eWpororlddu Wctiaorn IsI ”o pf hicooton-ic Hamilton Standard logos)
print measures 31"x19".
Stealth / Reconnaissance...............................39 graphs are perfect for framing • The prototype’s famous inverted gull-wings, which can
Main Edition – Signed by with your print. Purchase either be repositioned for display in either the flying or folded
X-Planes, Rockets & Area 51.........................40 two Pacific War edition of The Homecomingand configurations (when you can see replicas of internal
Space..............................................................41 veterans................#72624C$195 we’ll send them to you free! structural components)
Transports.......................................................42 Victory Edition – Signed by eight Pacific War veterans, • Super-fine details such as machine gun ports, simulated
Helicopters......................................................43 including two Black Sheep pilots......................#72625C$295 navigation lights, and a pitot tube
• Aremovable, fuselage-mounted fuel tank
Trainers / Disasters........................................44 F4U Corsair
• Optional-position landing gear
Training / Bases.............................................45 Shirt
• The markings of “White 29,” the aircraft flown by the
U.S. Marines / Air Force.................................46 Shiver U.S.Navy’s most successful Corsair pilot,
Branches of Service / Blue Angels.................47 me tim- 16-victory ace Lt(jg).Ira Kepford, who achieved
Nose Art..........................................................48 bers! his victories in only five months of Pacific Theater
Featuring combat while flying with the famed VF-17
Pin-Ups......................................................48-49 “White “Jolly Rogers.”
Pop Culture.....................................................49 29” – the F4U • Adisplay stand • And more!
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Albatros D.III Display Model
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Allies’and Germans’finest fighters in
flown by 54-victory ace Oberleutnant Erich
the battle for aerial supremacy over the
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Somme in 1916: Britain’s under-gunned
ulate the original’s fabric-on-frame construction; a
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War I dog- • Durable foam construction
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