http://www.ageofaces.net The Best in Air-War Fiction Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:50:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 en hourly 1 http://www.ageofaces.net/2010/12/2331/ http://www.ageofaces.net/2010/12/2331/#comments Tue, 14 Dec 2010 23:40:02 +0000 David http://www.ageofaces.net/?p=2331 It’s been a while, but we’re back with two of Alden McWilliams’ illustrated tributes to the pioneer fliers of the early days of aviation. McWilliams’ “They Had What it Takes” ran for several years in Flying Aces magazine in the thirties and these installments appeared in 1938. Part 16 appeared in the May issue and featured beloved early commercial aviator Capt. Edwin Musick, famed for piloting PanAm’s China Clipper! Following this in the June issue, McWilliams featured Sir Hubert Wilkins, the famed Australian Arctic Explorer. Here’s some newsreel footage of him and the plane he had just piloted over the North Pole in 1928 and thirty years later signing in on the game show What’s My Line as Mr X in 1958.

• Download “They Had What It Takes – Part 16: Capt. Edwin Musick” (May 1938, Flying Aces)
• Download “They Had What It Takes – Part 17: Sir Hubert Wilkins” (June 1938, Flying Aces)
]]> http://www.ageofaces.net/2010/12/2331/feed/ 0 http://www.ageofaces.net/2009/01/skyguns-of-singapore-by-arch-whitehouse/ http://www.ageofaces.net/2009/01/skyguns-of-singapore-by-arch-whitehouse/#comments Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:12:38 +0000 Bill http://www.ageofaces.net/blog/?p=528 “Twenty million pounds to fortify Singapore … Twenty minutes for complete destruction … Twenty days to embroil the world in war!” That fateful warning meant that Britain’s proud new naval base was doomed—doomed by the Circle of Death! And when the masked members of that veiled power learned that “Coffin” Kirk stood in the path of their poisonous fangs, they only laughed sardonically. For Kirk was their most hated enemy. Two scores would be settled with a single blow!
• Download “Skyguns of Singapore” (June 1938, Flying Aces)
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When this pair of wild aces get started, they ruin anybody’s old war!
• Download “Rumpler Stakes” (June 1938, Lone Eagle)
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• Download “The Spider and the Flyer” (June 1938, Flying Aces)
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