EDITORIAL this issue.
Our New Year's Gift
With the 191 you have in your hands the fifth number AIRCRAFT dedicated aces since we launched for the first time this concept during our No. 100 there are more than eleven years ... Both to three years, so we are only speaking of the aviation press (global?) to provide biographies of the great fighter pilots in the history of aviation, a formula that meets always a hit with readers. The principle is the same: they are famous or less famous, tell you the story of airmen who were symbols of their time, with a maximum in support of new illustrations. Hope you like this issue as much as the previous ones!
The existence is unfortunately not made that happy event. The grand as the "Normandie Niemen" Roland the Poype (16 victories and two probable safe) died on October 23 in Saint-Tropez, at the age of 92 years. We will come back on his career in an upcoming issue.
You will find in this magazine ads for future issues of the Amiot 143, and our SNCASE SE.161 Languedoc-off series "Stories were No. 1" which should please many with pictures ever seen. After our recent publications on the French Air Force in Indochina origins to 1945, the Super Hornet, the French and Skyraider aircraft Morane-Saulnier, further evidence of the dynamism Editions Lela Presse!
With that, we wish you a Happy New Year 2013 and enjoy reading ...
Summary
- Letters to the Editor
- Pioneers: the "Ducks" Voisin. By Jacques Moulin
- Don Gentile : the spoiled child of the U.S. Air Force. By Christophe Cony
- Paul Tarascon Zigomar a funny! (1) By David Méchin, with the participation of Christophe Cony
- Jan Reznak an eagle Slovak above Kuban (1) Many Souffan
- A Spitfire ace on: Buck McNair. By Norman Franks
- Yoshiro Kuwabara: a killer on Ki-27. By Nicholas Millman
- Alexei Tatartchouk: defender of Leningrad. By Alexei Pekarch
- Info leisure. By Michel Ledet and Christophe Cony
On the cover:
Captain Don Gentile, the 4th Fighter Group USAF in combat with a Fw 190 A-7 in early April 1944. It is here on board the P-51B-7-NA s / n 43-6913 "Shangri-La", probably the most famous "Mustang" in the history of aviation! (Illustration by Lionel Labeyrie)
