Air

The Flying Fool

Issue Number: 5703

When an RAF Hurricane cadet with a taste for practical jokes and horseplay is sent to a backwater squadron in India, he doesn’t let it dampen his spirits. What he didn’t know was things were about to get a lot worse! After pulling a prank on the wrong person, Pilot Officer Billy West is moved […]

Cadman: Up, Up and Away!

Issue Number: 5697

November 1914. As the fighting heats up on the Western Front, Lieutenant Gerald Cadman realises that he is in real danger of having to fight in the war! But this cowardly cad has a cunning plan to escape battle yet again — take to the skies! Little does he know that flying an ‘unarmed’ reconnaissance […]

Sea Snatch

Issue Number: 5696

It’s hard to leave a mate in the lurch, especially when he’s wounded and behind German lines. It’s hard to forget he ever existed, even when you’re waging war against the hated Nazis. That’s the spot Eric Carlsson and Chris Borge, two Norwegians who’d escaped to fly for the RAF, were in. They planned and […]

Haunted Skies

Issue Number: 5694

The FW 190s dived confidently on the single Spitfire — it looked an easy target. In seconds the British fighter was lined up in their gun sights. But as the German pilots pressed their firing buttons, a blinding flash dazzled their eyes and suddenly there was another Spitfire in the sky — a phantom one! […]

Phantom Pilot

Issue Number: 5692

When Ken Welsh’s Typhoon was shot down he made the sort of forced landing that nobody should have survived. But survive he did — or did he?     Something very strange had happened, for when Ken woke up, his sleek Typhoon had been replaced with an old-time biplane fighter — and it wasn’t 1944 […]

Fly Fast, Skipper

Issue Number: 5685

Aussie Flight Lieutenant Dick Thompson’s skill had been hard-won in the deserts of North Africa against the Luftwaffe. But Dick was going to need everything he had to go up against the Japanese Mitsubishi AGM Zero in the air battle over Milne Bay. The Zero was more manoeuvrable than his P-40 Kittyhawk but there was […]

Operation Nachthexen

Issue Number: 5682

The German forces that invaded the Soviet Union had much to fear once the Russians’ fightback got into its stride. For the Russians are fearsome warriors when roused. What the Germans feared more than anything was the night. For that was when the Nachthexen – the night witches – flew. Because, you see, when the […]

No Score Nixon

Issue Number: 5680

Rookie pilot Tim Nixon was keen to open his account against the Luftwaffe. But somehow his score sheet stayed blank – and he began to wonder if his lack of success was due to bad luck, or if he was just a no-hoper. Somehow he had to prove himself and silence the taunts of his […]