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Aerodynamic Media, LLC is proud to announce the release of the 23rd issue of The Flying Machine: Early Aero Quarterly.

Issue #23 Contents:

36 Pages – A Scout Over the Pampas: The Story of an SE.5a in Argentina; Shaw Sopwith Camel F-AZZB Update; The Jenny Takes Flight; Spotlight: Military Aviation Museum’s Albatros D.Va; News Briefs: Vickers Vimy Dismantling, American Heritage Museum’s Original Nieuport 28; Products

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Here you will find contents for individual issues of The Flying Machine journal. We are currently working on an index by subject as well.

Issue 1 (Fall 2016): 42 Pages – The First American Aeroplane Export: Octave Chanute’s 1904 Glider at the Threshold of Powered Flight; Military Aviation Museum / Vintage Aviation Services S.E.5a Project Update; A Letter From the Air; An Albatros in Canada (Albatros D.Va For Sale); News Briefs: Clerget Sopwith Camel Progress Report, Curtiss Jenny Restoration Update, 1/6 Scale Ilya Muromets Takes Flight

Issue 2 (Winter 2017): 44 Pages – 2016 Dawn Patrol Rendezvous Recap; Superstitions of Fledgling Flyers in 1918; The Wright National Memorial Reborn; Craftlab Project Updates; B.E.12 Rigging Notes; News Briefs: Wright Experience Curtiss Jenny Returns to the Air, Le Rhone-Powered Sopwith Pup Reproduction Nearing First Flight, Virginia Aviation Museum Collection Finds New Home, Kiffin Rockwell Medal / Artifact Display

Issue 3 (Spring 2017): 40 Pages – One Wheel On My Camel: Fred Kay Learns How to Fly; Sopwith Rigging Notes; An Epic Cross-Country Flight Adventure From Payne Field; Bristol Scout 1264 Update; Aircraft of the Wright Experience (Part 6); News Briefs: Restored WW1 Hangar Grand Opening, Vintage Aviation Services / Military Aviation Museum S.E.5a Update, Hiller Aviation Museum Fokker Dr.1 Project, Owls Head Transportation Museum Fokker Dr.1 Project

Issue 4 (Summer 2017): 40 Pages – 3D Modeled Aircraft and Aero Engines; APSS Sopwith 1½ Strutter Project; Memorial Flight’s Current Projects; Drawings: Replicraft S.E.5a Samples; News Briefs: Santos-Dumont 19 bis Libellule Project; Sopwith Aircraft Resume Production; Golden Age Air Museum’s SPAD XIII; Products

Issue 5 (Fall 2017): 36 Pages: Not in Kansas Anymore (1911 Cessna Silver Wings / CC-1 reproduction); Avro Rigging Notes (Part 1); My 16th Birthday Jenny Solo; News Briefs: Fernand Saint-André’s Albatros D.Va, John Shaw’s Sopwith Camel, Hiller Aviation Museum’s Fokker Dr.1; Products

Issue 6 (Winter 2018): 36 Pages – Wright Tour Guide: Examining Sites and Artifacts Connected to the Wright Brothers and the Birth of Powered Flight (Part 1); Fighter World Sopwith Camel Project; Avro Rigging Notes (Part 2); News Briefs: Owls Head Transportation Museum Projects, Restoration of King/Coughlin Sopwith Pup, New Displays at Udvar-Hazy; Products

Issue 7 (Spring 2018): 36 Pages – Wright Tour Guide: Examining Sites and Artifacts Connected to the Wright Brothers and the Birth of Powered Flight (Part 2); Tommy to Fly Again!: Restoration Nearly Completed, Our 100-Year-Old Airplane Will Soon Take to the Sky; Building a Reproduction 1913 Renault WB 70 hp V8 Aero Engine for a B.E.2a; News Briefs: Bastion in the Air Exhibition Opens at RAF Scampton, Memorial Flight Completes B.E.2f Reproduction, Darrin Covington’s ¼ Scale B.E.2c Project; Products

Issue 8 (Summer 2018): 36 Pages – Montrose Air Station Heritage Centre’s B.E.2a Reproduction; Jerry May’s Fokker Dr.1 Project; Avro Type F Replica Moves to Woodford; NELSAM’s Morane-Saulnier N Project; News Briefs: Newly Restored de Havilland DH.4 Displayed at AirVenture 2018, Tom Kozura’s Sopwith Camel Project, Cardboard Curtiss Jenny; Products

Issue 9 (Fall 2018): 36 Pages – Cessna CC-1 Rises; Museum Bound (Fokker Dr.1 Project); Pilot Report: New 1912 Lohner Taube Reproduction; The Right Project at the Right Time (Part 1 – Curtiss Jenny Project); News Briefs: “Libellule” Project Update, Thomas-Morse Scout Returns to the Air, National Museum of the U.S. Air Force Avro 504K Restoration; Products

Issue 10 (Winter 2019): 36 Pages – Recreating the Ferguson Monoplane: The First Irish Aircraft to Fly; Vintage Turnbuckles – Some History and Some Solutions; Military Aviation Museum’s Biplanes and Brews Recap; The Right Project at the Right Time (Part 2); News Briefs: World’s Only Fully Restored Curtiss Model F Takes Flight, Authentic WW1 Hangars for Your Vintage Aircraft Now Available, National Museum of the U.S. Air Force Curtiss Jenny Touches Down, Products

Issue 11 (Spring 2019): 36 Pages – Wright Tour Guide: Examining Sites and Artifacts Connected to the Wright Brothers and the Birth of Powered Flight (Part 3); Spotlight: Woodall / MAPS Air Museum Sopwith Triplane; Brussel Sprout (NZ Warbirds Association Bristol Scout); News Briefs: Pima Air and Space Museum Sopwith Camel Project, Newly Restored Thomas-Morse S-4B Goes on Display; Products

Issue 12 (Summer 2019): 36 Pages – Wright Tour Guide: Examining Sites and Artifacts Connected to the Wright Brothers and the Birth of Powered Flight (Part 4); Spotlight: Berg / Military Aviation Museum Fokker D.VII; Montrose Air Station Heritage Centre’s Sopwith F.1 Camel Reconstruction Project; News Briefs: Restored Fokker D.VII, SE.5a Displayed, KipAero Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter Update, South Australian Aviation Museum Cessna CC-1 Update; Products

Issue 13 (Fall 2019): 36 Pages – Military Aviation Museum’s Thomas-Morse S-4C Restoration (Part 1); Spotlight: Golden Age Air Museum’s Sopwith Pup; Military Aviation Museum Biplanes & Brews 2019 Recap; News Briefs: Pioneer Flight Museum’s Thomas-Morse S-4C Restoration, Newly Completed Fokker D.VII Begins Ground Testing, National Museum of the U.S. Air Force Completes Avro 504K Restoration; Products

Issue 14 (Winter 2020): 36 Pages – KipAero’s Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter Project; Shaw Sopwith Camel #2 Update; MAM Thomas-Morse S-4C Restoration (Part 2); Products

Issue 15 (Spring 2020): 36 Pages – Skinning a Camel; Lycoming to Le Rhône: Converting and Flying a Rotary-Powered Fokker Dr.1; Spotlight: TVAL’s New Fokker D.VII; News Briefs: Hiller Aviation Museum’s New Fokker Dr.1 Goes on Display, Brian Coughlin’s Fokker Dr.1 Project, Brian Coughlin’s Sopwith Camel Project; Products

Issue 16 (Summer 2020): 36 Pages – New Zealand Warbirds Association’s New Bristol Fighter; Craftlab Updates; Avro Student Pilot and Draughtsman: S.V. Setty; Pfalz D.VIII Takes Flight; Spotlight: Air Zoo Sopwith Camel; News Briefs: Fokker D.VII Reproduction Performs Maiden Flight, National Museum of the U.S. Air Force Begins Restoration of Thomas-Morse Scout; Products

Issue 17 (Fall 2020): 36 Pages – Building and Flying Fokker D.VII N7756J; Craftlab Updates (Part 2): A Historic Flight; Spotlight: SAM / VAM SPAD VII B9913; News Briefs: Boscombe Down Aviation Collection Opens New Royal Flying Corps Exhibition, Mazer Fokker Dr.1 Project Update, Shaw Sopwith Camel Project Update; Products

Issue 18 (Winter 2021): 36 Pages – Wright Tour Guide: Examining Sites and Artifacts Connected to the Wright Brothers and the Birth of Powered Flight (Part 5); Running the 80 hp Le Rhône 9C; Spotlight: Racette Blériot XI-2; News Briefs: Air Zoo Wright Flyer Returns Home, Petrov Curtiss JN-4 Canuck Project, Golden Age Air Museum SPAD XIII Project Update; Products

Issue 19 (Spring 2021): 36 Pages – Wright Tour Guide: Examining Sites and Artifacts Connected to the Wright Brothers and the Birth of Powered Flight (Part 6); Spotlight: Shannon Air Museum’s Standard E-1; New Zealand Warbirds Association’s Siemens-Schuckert D.IV; News Briefs: Curtiss Jenny Reproduction Returns Home After 15 Years, PFM’s New Acquisitions; Products

Issue 20 (Summer 2021): 36 Pages – Nieuport Memorial Flyers Nieuport 23 (Part 1); Spotlight: MAM’s Rotary-Powered Fokker Dr.1; Building S.E.5a Wings; Products

Issue 21 (Fall 2021): 36 pages – NZ Warbirds Association’s Albatros D.Va; Nieuport Memorial Flyers Nieuport 23 (Part 2); Spotlight: Military Aviation Museum’s Fokker D.VI; News Briefs: Fokkers Take Flight Over Geneseo, Cooper Bomb Reproductions For Sale; Products

Issue 22 (Winter 2022): 36 pages – The Phönix C.I Series 121 Project; Fox Aviation Historique’s SPAD VII Projects; Spotlight: MAM’s Sopwith Triplane; News Briefs: USAF Museum Thomas-Morse Scout; Products

Issue 23 (Spring 2022): 36 pages – A Scout Over the Pampas: The Story of an SE.5a in Argentina; Shaw Sopwith Camel F-AZZB Update; The Jenny Takes Flight; Spotlight: Military Aviation Museum’s Albatros D.Va; News Briefs: Vickers Vimy Dismantling, American Heritage Museum’s Original Nieuport 28; Products

Issue 24 (Summer 2022): 36 Pages – Overhauling a Jenny’s OX-5 Engine; Spotlight: Military Aviation Museum’s Sopwith 1½ Strutter N4088H; Running the 120 hp Le Rhône Engine; News Briefs: Memorial Flight’s B.E.2f Performs Maiden Flight, Golden Age Air Museum SPAD XIII Progress Report; Products

Issue 25 (Fall 2022): 36 Pages – Sopwith F.1 Camel C-FGHT / Hump Day in the Sopwith Camel ; Fokker Scourge Recap; Spotlight: MAM’s Sopwith 1 ½ Strutter N1914S; News Briefs: Sopwith Camel Airframe Project For Sale, American Heritage Museum’s Original Nieuport 28 (Update), 1/6 Scale Sikorsky Ilya Muromets Flying Model For Sale; Products

Issue 26 (Winter 2023): 36 Pages – Certifying the Jenny; Ballooning Experiences in WW1; Spotlight: Military Aviation Museum’s Ely Curtiss Pusher Reproduction; News Briefs: Research Help Wanted: Postwar FE.2bs in the United States, 1911 Waterbird Reproduction Takes Flight, USAF Museum Curtiss Jenny Restoration Update; Products

Issue 27 (Spring 2023): 40 Pages – Leo Opdycke 1929-2023; Bristol Fighter at Old Rhinebeck; Spotlight: Military Aviation Museum’s Original Curtiss Jenny; News Briefs: DX Modelworks’ Scratch-Built Sopwith Camel (1/16 Scale), A New Rotary Engine Launched in New Zealand, Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome Sopwith Dolphin Update, Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome Blériot XI Update; Products