The Aviation Historian 50

New on the shelves of Aviation Megastore.; The Aviation Historian full of timeless aviation history!

Please note that from issue 50 it will become an annualy publication. TAH have decided  they will change from quarterly frequency and instead publish a single larger TAH Annual, along with special issues and books. TAH had some of these projects in the pipeline for years, but as a tiny fourperson team they have not had the capacity to bring them to fruition alongside the quarterly.

Of course we will also carry these special issues and books

About the latest issue

A very warm welcome to the 50th quarterly issue – the final one before TAH will appear as an annual, packaging fresh aviation history of the same superlative quality into a more hefty once-a-year volume.

The cover image for TAH50 – a Lockheed NF-104A Starfighter streaking heavenwards under jet and rocket power – heralds our article by Tony Buttler FRAeS on American jet fighter engine testbeds of the 1950s, a time of rapid progress in powerplant development.

Other major features in the issue include the latest in TAH's series on British aerial weapons, in which author Chris Gibson and technical illustrator Ian Bott (both of them members of TAH's Editorial Board) assess the devastating combination that comprised the Avro Lancaster and its various bomb loads; James Kightly spotlights the distinguished aviation career of Hollywood actor James Stewart; Prof Keith Hayward FRAeS explores the convoluted politics underlying the development of the European Fighter Aircraft in the 1980s; and Edward M. Young charts the remarkable RAF flying career of Thailand's Prince "Nicky" Varanand.

Elsewhere in TAH50 the completed histories of Trans-Canada Air Lines, of Argentinian pilot Pedro Zanni's ill-fated round-the-world flight attempt 100 years ago, and of the de Havilland Vampire in Rhodesian service; and is examined how the Hawker Siddeley Andover won the race to become the British military's tactical light transport. Also a recount of the career and mysterious death in a flying accident in the USA in 1954 of Air Cdre Geoffrey Stephenson, CO of the RAF's Central Fighter Establishment.

We hope you will savour Issue 50 of The Aviation Historian, and we look forward to bringing you the first TAH Annual – plus various book and special-issue projects – in due course. It will appear in Octiober 2025

Please note, We do not have older issues on stock but we can order them for you.