Flight Journal April 2014

COVER STORY
12 | Improbable Survivor
Fw 190: The rarest of the rare flies again
By Rachel Morris

FEATURES
28 | Doolittle
The first 80 years
By Barrett Tillman

42 | Wolfpack Assassin
Confessions of a MiG killer
By Lieutenant Colonel Everett T. Raspberry, USAF (Ret.), as told to and written by James P. Busha

54 | Last Flight From Polebrook
A tale of luck and perseverance
By Author Name

COLUMNS
6 | Flight Journal Contributors

8 | Editorial

10 | Airdrop

11 | On the Web

24 | Aviation Insider
Warbirds: Do They Have a Future?
By Thomas McKelvey Cleaver

36 | Gallery
Pre-war Beauty: Hawker Demon
By Luigino Caliaro

40 | Iconic Firepower
Proximity Fuzes: The Game-Changing Genie Was Out of the Bottle
By Frederick A. Johnsen

52 | Modern Classics
F-15 Eagle: 40 Years and Still Lethal
By Barrett Tillman

64 | Flight Gear

66 | Tailview
Spitfires for the Masses
By Rachel Morris