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FLYING ACES

VOLUME XXXVIII - JANUARY 1941, NUMBER 1

The main topics of this issue include: If I Were Air Corps Chief: Major Fred Lord - 4 pages illustrated with photos including the Vultee YA-19 [V-11], Martin B-10 bomber, Thomas-Morse MB-3A, Curtiss P-40 Army Hawk & the Boeing P-26A, Flying into Focus - Double-page photo-montage including a Vultee torpedo seaplane, Grumman G-44 Widgeon, Vought-Sikorsky OS2U-I, Douglas SBD-I [Dauntless} dive-bomber amongst others, "We Were Bombed in Paris" - Experiences of an American flyer who flew for France against Germany, Down Memory's Runway - One-page photo-montage, "Get Away from That Airplane!", Modern Planes Album (Republic YP-43 [P-43 Lancer], Douglas SBD-1 [Dauntless], Republic Guardsman, North American XB-21 [Dragon]), Happy Landings - Airports and national defense, That Ol' Devil Fog, On the Light Plane Tarmac - photos of the De Bothezat helicopter, the Puritan and the Naugle Model 80, The Case Against an Independent Air Force, Models Built: Flying Broomstick, Guppie - gas job, plus more including short stories.

A full list of contents can be seen on the second photograph - subsequent photographs taken from this issue help to give a 'flavour' of the content and format.

This original publication is complete with all pages secured but displaying wear commensurate with its age.  Most wear is along the spine in the form of rubbing, fraying and small splits.  The pages exhibit age-related discolouration (see photographs) typically found on periodicals of this era and compounded by the poor quality paper used.  A total of 82 pages (29cm x 21.5cm).

'Flying Aces' was a monthly American periodical of short stories about aviation, one of a number of so-called "flying pulp" magazines popular during the 1920s and 1930s.  Like other pulp magazines, it was a collection of adventure stories, originally printed on coarse, pulpy paper but later moved to a slick format.  The magazine was launched in October 1928.  It featured stories written and illustrated by known authors of the day, often set against the background of World War I.  Later issues added non-fiction aviation articles, as well as articles and plans for model airplanes.  The latter became more prominent, and eventually the magazine was renamed Flying Models.