Roaring out of the 1930’s comes the greatest heroes to ever fly WWI Europe’s unfriendly skies!
Straight from the tattered pages of Popular Publication’s air war pulps, Age of Aces Books is proud to be able to bring you the best of these heroes. Don’t spend all that time and money tracking down dozens of the crumbling original magazines looking for your favorite aviator. Age of Aces has done that for you. Each of our books contain stories featuring a single exciting character or written by one of your favorite authors. We are also doing some books that are not air war but still have a connection to that era and those magazines. All Age of Aces books are 6 X 9 trade paperback editions, and are available from Amazon.com.
Latest Dispatches
How the War Crates Flew: The Constaninesco Interrupter Gear
The pilot of any pursuit plane used in the great war, could only shoot in one direction . . . that was forward. Sometimes he had one Vickers gun mounted on the engine cowling, and one Lewis mounted on the top center section. Sometimes he had two Vickers and one Lewis. And sometimes he had just two Vickers.
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“Mushing Down the Air Trail” by Frank Richardson Pierce
High-powered planes and battling pilots above the snow fields of Alaska!
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Leaving the Scrapbooks Behind
THIS month we’ve been delving into a pair of scrapbooks that were created in the late 20’s and early 30’s by an industrious youth, Robert A. O’Neil who, like many at the time, had a keen interest in all things aviation.
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From the Scrapbooks: Letter Postcards
Turning the page, we find two acknowledgments for having written a letter in to the pulps!
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From the Scrapbooks: Cover Cut-Outs
Robert was also fond of including cut-outs from covers of all kinds of aviation themed magazines. Here are a few along with the full covers Robert excised them from…
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From the Scrapbooks: A Seasonal Mystery
Turning the page, we find a Happy New Years greeting from George Bruce scrapbooked in. . .
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From the Scrapbooks: A Letter from Sarge!
Turning the page, we find another letter removed from its envelope and scrapbooked in. Opening it, we find a letter from “Sarge” on the official Popular Publications letterhead. Sarge was the assumed character and nom de plum of Eugene A. Clancy that he used for answering letters sent into Battle Aces magazine’s letters column, The Hot Airdrome.
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From the Scrapbooks: The Sky Riders Club
Turning the page, we find one of the Birdmen Club cards paired with the Sky Riders Club Card!
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From the Scrapbooks: The Birdmen Club
Turning the page from the George Bruce letter we find a membership card and folded note from the Birdmen club!
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From the Scrapbooks: A Letter from Arch Whitehouse
Unfolding the sheet of paper reveals a letter from Arch Whitehouse on Magazine Publishers Incorporated letterhead from March 7th, 1929.
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