2000: Volume 15, Number 3
Cover Art
SPADs of the 13th Aero Squadron on patrol in this painting by aviation artist Jim Laurier entitled Flight of Aces. The lead aircraft is a cannon armed SPAD XII flown by Captain Charles Biddle. This was the sole aircraft of this type in the USAS. The squadron insignia, the 'Grim Reaper' aka 'Oscar', was carried on all its aircraft until disbandment in the post-Vietnam era.
Table of Contents
Features
SPAD S VII, S.1777: Whose Aircraft? by Howard G. Fisher
The 13th U.S. Aero Squadron is Reborn by Greg Van Wyngarden
As a Guest of Rittmeister Freiherr von Richthofen by Oberleutnant (Retired) Peter Martin Lampel
From the Diary of a Fighter Pilot by Hauptmann aD. Hermann Göring
In the Göring Staffel by Helmuth Dilthey
As a Fighter Pilot 1917 by Heinrich Gontermann
Battle Flights Over the Channel by Friedrich Christiansen
Downed Without a Shot by Willi Neuenhofen
The Fokker D.VII in Service by Dan-San Abbott
Defection by Air: The Secret Saga of Antoni Wroniecki by Tomasz Goworek
Captain Wilfred Beaver by Dennis Gordon
Elmer D. Cook, 2/Lt. 638th Aero Squadron by Alan D. Toelle
Departments
Between the Lines
Renewels | 2001, A League Odyssey
Mentioned in Dispatches
Stop Press! (the History of Aviation Photo Colection at the UTD) | More from Marvin Skelton | From Belgium via Iowa and Over to You | Richthofenania | In The Nobody's Perfect Department | An S.T. Lawson Riposte to P.M. Grosz | Claims and Overclaims Continued | Another Low Countries Member is Heard From | An Understanding Member from the Emerald Isle | Questions and Comments from Palestine | We Missed You Ms. Robinson
Between the Bookends
Five World War One Flyers' Portraits | Ilya Muromets Type Veh--Classics of WWI Aviation | Fokker D.VII--Anthology 2 | Felixstowe F.2A--Windsock Datafile No.82 | Windsock International, Vol. 16, No. 4 | Lt. Henry R. Clay Sopwith Camel Ace