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2021
CONTENTS
JANUARY
New Diorama For Early Aviation Hangar
Bellanca’s & Lindbergh
Aerial Reconnaissance Article
The Museum’s Reconnaissance Inventory
FEBRUARY
Alabama Happenings
Tuskegee Airmen Quarter and Making AWI Happen
Alabama Aviation Hall of Fame
Double Victory
MARCH
USS Enterprise Model by Norm Ponder
Restoration of the Tuskegee B-25 and Skymaster Repaint
Chico, The Gunfighter—The Legacy of the Vietnam Mission
Women in Aviation—”The Originals” Visit The Museum
Future Aircraft—Drones
April
Remebering Alabama's CIA Heroes
Hall of Fame Honoree - Joseph Lewis Shannon
Bay of Pigs - The Aftermath
May
Alabama in World War II
Alabama USAAF Airfields
Hall of Fame Member - David S. McCampbell
June
Vietnam Icon - UH-1 "Huey"
Museum's Icon - A-12 "Cygnus"
Historic Air Show Recap
Future Attack Helicopters
July
Korea - The Forgotten War
Our Beech Starship
The Laister - Kaufman TG-4A
Glider Training In Mobile, Al
August
General Asa North Duncan
Birth of the 8th Air Force
Birmingham's Naval Air Station
September
The Flying Chainsaw
Why A Skills Shortage
Meet The "Raiders"
The "Corsair II"
AwI - Our New Mission
October
Alabama Remembers James Meissner
Current happenings - Banks Jet & B-25
Events - Opera Birmingham At the Museum
Rosie, the Riveter Founder Passes
The "Iceberg" Aircraft Carrier
November
USS Birmingham - The First "Aircraft Carrier"
Veterans Day - 2021
Tomorrow's Carrier Aviation
New Exhibit Seating In Hangars
2020
CONTENTS
JANUARY
Hunter-Killer “Pink” Teams
Planes of Vietnam on Display
On Display in the Shadow Gallery
Vietnam War Memorial
FEBUARY
The Tuskegee Airmen Diorama at SMF
Alabama Roster of Tuskegee Pilots
Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site
Top Guns from Tuskegee
MARCH
Ruth Elder, Miss America of Aviation
Women In Aviation
Soviet “Night Witches”
The “Ninety Nines” at the SMF
Women Flyers in the Alabama Aviation Hall of Fame
APRIL
Bay of Pigs - Invasion of Cuba
75th World War II Anniversary
Museum Volunteers Involvements & Accomplishments
MAY
The Lake Murray B-25
Theories and Speculation on the B-25 Ditching
2020 Events Honoring World War II Heroes
JUNE
The Triple Jet Ace of Korea
The L-39C Aero
A Visit to Paris, TN - Aircraft Surplus
Highlighting Dr. Ed Stevenson
Remember the Forgotten War
JULY
Restoring the F-86L “Sabre Dog”
Beginning Restoration of the Fairchild 24 C8B
A “Mosquito” in the Korean War - the T-6
From Historical Perspectives to Diorama Realities
AUGUST
World War II Tribute
Rosie, the Riveter Icon
National Aviation Day
Cumulus 2F Glider
Arsenal of Democracy Parade
SEPTEMBER
Operation Moolah - The MiG-15 Story
The Republic F-105F-1 “Thunderchief”
Tuskegee Top Gun - Alva Temple
Virginia Hall - Super Spy
OCTOBER
The Aviation Workforce Initiative (AWI)
America’s First Jet - The XP-59
Southern Airways and the “Skytrain”
NOVEMBER
The Father of Veterans Day
Armistice Day and Raymond Weeks
The CIA Shadow Gallery Make-Over
CIA Officer with a Paintbrush
DECEMBER
The Wright Brothers Chronicle
Aviation Hall of Fame - Sumpter Smith ANG Base
Blue Skies & Tailwinds - William Barnes
A New Look for the Aero L-39C
The Bushby Mustang
Before the Memphis Belle
2019
Content
FEBUARY
Tuskegee Airmen – Charles McGee
Lockheed’s Supersonic Drone - the GTD-21B
The First Black Military Aviator
MARCH
Current Happenings
Artwork of Bob Bales and the USAF Art Program
Women In Aviation Articles
The WASPS of WWII
“That’s All...Brother” and D-Day
APRIL
Bay of Pigs - Invasion of Cuba
75th World War II Anniversary
Museum Volunteers Involvements & Accomplishments
Summer Camp
MAY
Plane That Led the D-Day Invasion Visits the Museum
GearZ – a TV Show Gets Inspired when Visiting the A-12 Blackbird
Meet Board Member Bill Barnes, WWII P-38 Pilot
JUNE
Remembering the Korean War
A Look Back at the Museum’s F-84
Birmingham’s Early Airfields
The “Skunkworks” and the Museum’s A-12 “Blackbird”
The Cold War Bombshelter History on the Museum’s Property
JULY
Get To Know the Russian Mi-24 Hind “Flying Tank”
The Museum’s Education Outreach
“A MiG-15 To Freedom” - The Museum’s Korea War Diorama
AUGUST
In Memoriam
The B-25s Ventral Turret - Maybe the Last One
The Gnome Rotary Engine
A C-47 “Glider
SEPTEMBER
Birmingham’s Own “Mini-Mac”
The Historic Lockheed A-12 “Oxcart”
A Restoration Craftsman
The Museum’s Historic Motor Cars
Reconnaissance Cameras on Display
OCTOBER
Charles Lindbergh Visits Birmingham
The Spirit of St. Louis Flight Simulator
A Ryan Replica Finds a New Home at the Museum
The Early Atlantic Ocean crossings
NOVEMBER
World War I Historic Happenings
A Tribute To “Hank” Collins, Jr.
The Museum’s Concrete Section of the Berlin Wall
The Historic Fokker D.VII on Display
DECEMBER
