2005: Volume 20, Number 1
Cover Art
Front Cover:"Vintage Harburg-Wien Rubber Goods Factory Advertisement" courtesy Michael Owens Collection
Inside Front Cover: Transparent Nieuport 17 by Mark Miller
Inside Rear Cover: Contemporary Balloon Busting Watercolors
Outside Rear Cover: Color profiles of Junkers J.1 and Junkers CL.1 aircraft by R.N. Pearson.
Table of Contents
Features
Over the Front in a Balloon Observer's Gondola by Bob Gill
The adventures of a French balloon observer on the fateful day.
Rare Birds: The Junkers Monoplanes & Metal Shaping Techniques a photo essay
by Jan Servaites with 1/48 scale drawings by Martin Digmayer
The 11th Aero Squadron by Tom Gaylord
Unit history of the 11th from inception to dismissal.
The 1st Aero Squadron and the Mexican Punitive Expedition by Chuck Ludwig
The United States' first application of military air power. Foulois, Gorrell, etc.
The Mexican Punitive Expedition by James A. Pratt, III
Pershing's expedition from a slightly different point of view.
Index to Volume 19
Departments
Between the Lines
Report Card Time | 2005 Seminar | Ask the Expert | Managing Editor | We Need One Volunteer
Mentioned in Despatches
Physician, Heal Thyself | A Moving Target | Will Our Mystery Guest Please Sign In | More on Quentin Roosevet | Hidden in Plain Sight | What Was the "Sonderkommando Vogel"?
Between the Bookends:
In the Footsteps of the Red Baron by Mike O'Connor
| Fokker Flugzeugwerke in Deutschland 1912-1921 by Peter M. Grosz and Dr. Volker Koos
| Jasta Boelcke—The History of Jasta 2, 1916-1918 by Norman Franks
| Windsock Data File No. 108—The Bleriot XI at War by Gregory Alegi
| Windsock International, Vol. 20, No. 6
| Groupe de Combat 12—'Les Cigognes'—France's Ace Fighter Group in World War I by Jon Guttman
| The Red Baron's Last Flight—A Mystery Investigated by Norman Franks and Alan Bennett
| The '14-'18 Journal, 2004, The Australian Society of World War I Aero Historians
| Howard Hughes' "Hell's Angels", offered by Universal Studios
| To the Last Man—A Novel of the First World War by Jeff Shaara