Age of Aces » Hangar Yarns http://www.ageofaces.net The Best in Air-War Fiction Fri, 06 Nov 2026 10:00:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 en hourly 1 Hangar Yarns: “Sudden Hardware” by O.B. Myers http://www.ageofaces.net/2026/09/sudden-hardware-by-o-b-myers/ http://www.ageofaces.net/2026/09/sudden-hardware-by-o-b-myers/#comments Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:00:43 +0000 David http://www.ageofaces.net/?p=14342 THIS week we have another early story by the prolific O.B. Myers! Myers was a pilot himself, flying with the 147th Aero Squadron and carrying two credited victories and awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.

This time it’s O.B. Myer’s turn to spin this issue’s “Hangar Yarn”—a the round-table of airmen who, after flying hours, gather to yarn and smoke. All of these tales are told by airmen, in an airman’s fashion that’ll make you feel right at home in the old hangar.

“Did j’ever hear how Ab Longstreet got my Croix de Guerre?” asked Ed, flipping his cigarette butt so that it landed right next to a five-gallon can of gas.

]]> http://www.ageofaces.net/2026/09/sudden-hardware-by-o-b-myers/feed/ 0 “The Bobtail Ace” by Franklin H. Martin http://www.ageofaces.net/2025/07/the-bobtail-ace-by-franklin-h-martin/ http://www.ageofaces.net/2025/07/the-bobtail-ace-by-franklin-h-martin/#comments Fri, 18 Jul 2025 10:00:00 +0000 David http://www.ageofaces.net/?p=13559 TODAY we have a story by Franklin H. Martin. Not much is known about Martin aside from the fact he worked as a reporter on Newark newspapers. He had almost a hundred stories published in the pulps with roughly three quarters being detective or weird menace stories and the remaining quarter being air stories in the pages of Sky Birds, War Birds and Wings. In fact, his very first published pulp story was a brief aviation tale in Wings. It was the “Hanger Yarn” for the month. The Hanger Yarn was a round-table of airmen, where airmen would gather after hours to smoke and tell yarns and make you feel like you’re right at home in the hanger with them!

For the August 1931 issue, Martin spins a yarn about Lieutenant Howdy Dean, a pursuit pilot for the hundred and first who was looking to get himself half a boche—poor Howdy had four and a half victories to his credit and needed that extra half to make him an Ace.

If you enjoyed this brief taste of Franklin H. Martin’s writing, you’ll be happy to hear that we’ll be coming out with Franklin H. Martin’s Aces—a volume that collects Martin’s five stories that appeared in the pages of Aces in the fall of 1932, including the Black Hawk of Prussia duology. More information coming to this site soon!

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