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March-April Featured Preview – Pay It Forward (2/22/2013)By Harry G. Ballance, Jr. My father, Harry G. Ballance, Senior, was the Southeastern Division manager of Twentieth Fox Film Corporation.  As such, he had branch offices in Charlotte, Jacksonville, Houston, New Orleans, Memphis, Dallas and Oklahoma City, in addition to Atlanta.  He had about five hundred people working directly for him.  One of his… Read More

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2012 – Vol. 40, No. 11 – Clyde _The Cub Doctor_ Smith Jr., Hall of Fame Inductee

2012 – Vol. 40, No. 10 – Fields of Gold – 75th Birthday of the J3 Cub

2012 – Vol. 40, No. 09 – A Cure for the Ancient Engine Blues

2012 – Vol. 40, No. 08 – Larry Bell’s Plush Ride

2012 – Vol. 40, No. 07 – Mike Araldi’s Antique _Flying Diary_

2012 – Vol. 40, No. 06 – T-Craft Tale with a Twist

2012 – Vol. 40, No. 05 – Tale of an Extraordinary Gipsy

2012 – Vol. 40, No. 04 – C3B Stearman_ A Ron Alexander Project

2012 – Vol. 40, No. 03 – Travel Air_ Performance and Dependability

2012 – Vol. 40, No. 02 – Great-Granddad’s Airplane, E. Rearwin

2012 – Vol. 40, No. 01 – It All Started With a Pony

2011 – Vol. 39, No. 12 – The Waco Model _C_

2011 – Vol. 39, No. 11 – Cheerful as a Chipmunk

2011 – Vol. 39, No. 10 – The _New_ Funk on the Field

2011 – Vol. 39, No. 09 – A Handsome 1947 Piper Super Cruiser

2011 – Vol. 39, No. 08 – Making an Old Friend New Again – Frank Jacob’s Aeronca

2011 – Vol. 39, No. 07 – A Waco Kind of Family – Applegate Clan and their YKS-6

2011 – Vol. 39, No. 06 – The Paulson-Poling-Teel Stinson Model O

2011 – Vol. 39, No. 05 – Join the N44VY and See the World! – Bob Coolbaugh’s

2011 – Vol. 39, No. 04 – Taylor J-2 Cub – In the beginning…

2011 – Vol. 39, No. 03 – Curtiss Robin a Few Barnstormers…and Pearl

2011 – Vol. 39, No. 02 – The Colvins Consolidated Vultee L-13

2011 – Vol. 39, No. 01 – The May Family’s Spectacular 1936 Sportster

2010 – Vol. 38, No. 12 – 1930 Consolidated YPT-6A

2010 – Vol. 38, No. 11 – A Wonderful Prewar Waco_ Jack Hill’s

2010 – Vol. 38, No. 10 – One Classy Rearwin Cloudster

2010 – Vol. 38, No. 09 – The Deatons’ Beautiful Family Bonanza

2010 – Vol. 38, No. 08 – The Sensuously Svelte Ryan SCW

2010 – Vol. 38, No. 07 – It’s Hardly a Sea Fury_ George Baker’s Super Crui

2010 – Vol. 38, No. 06 – The Douglas DC-3

2010 – Vol. 38, No. 05 – One Gorgeous Taylorcraft

2010 – Vol. 38, No. 04 – The 1930 Kreider-Reisner Challenger

2010 – Vol. 38, No. 03 – Fleet Canuck!

2010 – Vol. 38, No. 02 – Larry Howard’s Lovely Laird

2010 – Vol. 38, No. 01 – What’s the Story With That Prop_ J. Nelson’s Comanche

2009 – Vol. 37, No. 12 – One Outstanding Stinson Flying Station Wagon

2009 – Vol. 37, No. 11 – Rotary Dreams_ Restoration of a Pitcairn PA-18 Autogiro

2009 – Vol. 37, No. 10 – Stearman Flight

2009 – Vol. 37, No. 09 – Yah, Dat Be a Swedish Ahrplane

2009 – Vol. 37, No. 07 – The VAA_ Who we are…how fortunate we are

2009 – Vol. 37, No. 06 – The Fortiers’ Beechcraft Dynasty

2009 – Vol. 37, No. 05 – Replicating a French Barracuda

2009 – Vol. 37, No. 04 – An Eye-Catching Ryan

2009 – Vol. 37, No. 03 – _Left Turn Only_

2009 – Vol. 37, No. 02 – The Chastains’ 1952 Rawdon T-1

2009 – Vol. 37, No. 01 – America – The First of the Great Flying Boats

2008 – Vol. 36, No. 12 – The Thunderbird

2008 – Vol. 36, No. 11 – The 1928 Boeing 40C

2008 – Vol. 36, No. 10 – The Regal RNF

2008 – Vol. 36, No. 09 – The Robin Alights at Sun ‘n Fun

2008 – Vol. 36, No. 08 – East Meets West Herb Clark and Wacovia UPFski

2008 – Vol. 36, No. 07 – Vernon’s CAA Airmaster

2008 – Vol. 36, No. 06 – A Family Heirloom Finds a New Home

2008 – Vol. 36, No. 05 – The Sorge Stearman Speedmail Special

2008 – Vol. 36, No. 04 – Pea Pod Pushers

2008 – Vol. 36, No. 03 – First You Finish the Instrument Panel

2008 – Vol. 36, No. 02 – Timeless and Triumphant – The Taylorcraft Twosome

2008 – Vol. 36, No. 01 – In the Tradition of Testosterone

2007 – Vol. 35, No. 12 – A Honey of a Champion

2007 – Vol. 35, No. 11 – Curtiss Flying Boat

2007 – Vol. 35, No. 10 – The Remarkable Bucker Bestmann

2007 – Vol. 35, No. 09 – The Command-Aire 5C3

2007 – Vol. 35, No. 08 – Lockheed12A – The Whittlesey family’s 68-year-old limo

2007 – Vol. 35, No. 07 – Waldron and Wooldridge’s One-of-a-Kind Travel Air

2007 – Vol. 35, No. 06 – The Poulton Family’s Chief

2007 – Vol. 35, No. 05 – DHC-2 de Havilland Beaver

2007 – Vol. 35, No. 04 -Dashing and Darting Through the Sky

2007 – Vol. 35, No. 03 -Bellanca 260

2007 – Vol. 35, No. 02 – A Radial-Powered Beauty–Fred Lundeen’s First Airplane

2007 – Vol. 35, No. 01 – VAA 2007 Friends of the Red Barn Campaign

2007 – Vol. 35, No. 01 – The First Clipwing Taylorcraft

2006 – Vol. 34, No. 12 – The Oldest Chipmunk

2006 – Vol. 34, No. 11 – Follow the Swallow

2006 – Vol. 34, No. 10 – Stinson Gullwing

2006 – Vol. 34, No. 09 – The Flagship Detroit DC-3

2006 – Vol. 34, No. 08 – Shock Cords

2006 – Vol. 34, No. 08 – Five-One Foxtrot

2006 – Vol. 34, No. 07 – Connie’s Coupe Top Waco

2006 – Vol. 34, No. 06 – Under the Wing, In the Shade

2006 – Vol. 34, No. 05 – Standard Issue Or Customized

2006 – Vol. 34, No. 04 – Swingin’

2006 – Vol. 34, No. 03 – Dinndorf, Doolittle & Their Stinson

2006 – Vol. 34, No. 02 – Perfecting Perfection

2006 – Vol. 34, No. 01 – Evaluating a Potential Project

2005 – Vol. 33, No. 12 – It’s a Generational Thing

2005 – Vol. 33, No. 11 – T-Hangar Treasure

2005 – Vol. 33, No. 10 – Flying the Hilarious _Bathtub_ Airplane

2005 – Vol. 33, No. 09 – The First Practical Airplane Part II

2005 – Vol. 33, No. 08 – The First Practical Airplane

2005 – Vol. 33, No. 07 – Drip-Dry Champ

2005 – Vol. 33, No. 06 – The Other Hisso Jenny

2005 – Vol. 33, No. 05 – Livingston Clipwing Monocoupe Flies Again

2005 – Vol. 33, No. 04 – The Earth Inductor Compass

2005 – Vol. 33, No. 03 – Type Club Notes

2005 – Vol. 33, No. 02 – Why Is CMX Where It Is_

2005 – Vol. 33, No. 01 – Cub Story_ Bair Wings J-3

2004 – Vol. 32, No. 12 – Entry Level Vintage_ a cheap way_

2004 – Vol. 32, No. 11 – Butch Walsh_ The Stinson

2004 – Vol. 32, No. 10 – The Howard Story – Part One

2004 – Vol. 32, No. 09 – A Cardinal Returns Home

2004 – Vol. 32, No. 08 – Phil Wells Shining 8A_E

2004 – Vol. 32, No. 07 – Carlsons Thulin-Built Bleriot

2004 – Vol. 32, No. 06 – Seven-Year Paint Job

2004 – Vol. 32, No. 05 – The Moth_ The Worlds Trainer

2004 – Vol. 32, No. 04 – C-180_ At the Beginning

2004 – Vol. 32, No. 03 – Reuben Fleets Airplane

2004 – Vol. 32, No. 02 – 1931 Second-hand Airplane

2004 – Vol. 32, No. 01 – 2003 National Air Tour

2003 – Vol. 31, No. 12 – Details_ Looking Closely at an Historical Reproduction

2003 – Vol. 31, No. 12 – Capturing History – The Daniels_Wright Photograph

2003 – Vol. 31, No. 11 – Fairchild 22

2003 – Vol. 31, No. 10 – Aeronca the Hard Way

2003 – Vol. 31, No. 09 – Large Adrenaline Cocktail

2003 – Vol. 31, No. 08 – Lucky Cessna_R Farris 170B

2003 – Vol. 31, No. 07 – Sometimes Free Still Too Much

2003 – Vol. 31, No. 06 – The Hoffmeyer T-Craft

2003 – Vol. 31, No. 04 – Radio and Antenna Installation

2003 – Vol. 31, No. 03 – In Search of the Norge

2003 – Vol. 31, No. 02 – Winstead Special

2003 – Vol. 31, No. 01 – Weedens Rearwind

2002 – Vol. 30, No. 12 – Clipper Ship

2002 – Vol. 30, No. 11 – Chrome Cub

2002 – Vol. 30, No. 10 – Cecil Hess And His Airplane

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