WINGS A SENTRY MAGAZINE JUNE 1978 VOL 8 No 3

WINGS A SENTRY MAGAZINE JUNE 1978 VOL 8 No 3

Articles included are:

THE SAGA OF “ 5 – GRAND “ : When the employees of Boeing Aircraft built this 5000th milestone Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress, they literally wrote history.

A DIFFERENT BREED OF CAT: Grumman’s F9 Panther / Cougar, the first jet fighter designed for the navy, the first navy jet to see combat and the first swept winged jet to see active service aboard a carrier, stayed in production for a decade, due to a sound basic design and a set of wings! Too many photos to list.

Includes a nice double page colour photo of a Grumman F9F-8 Cougar and also a Grumman F9F-2 Panther ( courtesy of Willow Creek Publishers, from their series: Jets over Korea, by Keith Ferris ).

TORPEDO LOS! The Luftwaffe’s classic floatplane bomber, the Heinkel He 115.

Includes photos of – Friedrichschafen FF-41A, Albatross W.5, Douglas T2D-1, Heinkel He-59B, Fokker T-VIIIW, Blohm und Voss Ha-140, Italian C.M.A.S.A. RS-14. Too many other photos to list.

NOW THERE’S A REALLY RARE PLANE!

Includes photos of a George Fernic designed Fernic ( T-for-Tandem ) 9,

Fernic T-19 Cruisaire, Todd Monoplane

Magazine in good condition for age. Slight generally yellowing of pages. Has original sale price in pen on cover.  Has small nibble (about 10mm) from very top right of cover and a few small stain marks internally – nothing that affects readability though.