FLYING MAGAZINE 8/1944 P-38 YIPPEE,B-29,B17 BAIL OUT

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You are bidding on the WW2 August, 1944 issue of Flying Magazine. Measuring 8 1/2" x 11 3/8" with 164 pages, condition is complete & very good: no cuts, tears, good spine. T is very slight waviness & a small rear cover stain indicating exposure to moisture, probably humidity. The cover is Yippee, the 5000th Lockheed Lightning built, a P-38J-20-LO, 44-23296. It was primarilly used for flight demos by Lockheed test pilots Tony LaVier & Milo Burcham. "How to bail out of a B-17" contains color AAF instructions, and the first press coverage of the B-29. The rear cover a new Lockheed ad (different each month), as well as full page ads from most major aircraft manufacturers, most in color on heavy paper. Many full page, color photos on heavy paper - I suspect many of them were framed. I think Flying was, by far, the best aviation magazine published during the war. (In 1951, when I was 12 and living in central Los Angeles, every day after school I would take 2 buses and visit the old magazine dealers on W. 5th St., downtown L.A., and buy all the WW2 Flying & Air Trails magazines I could find. Most were in excellent-as new condition. These have survived in the same condition, despite a X-country move to CT 8 years ago. Much as it hurts, it's time to pass them on to others before my wife tosses them someday.) Please see my other listings for read more
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