Flight Journal October 2025

FEATURES

Their Finest Hour
85 summers ago, the British Royal Air Force and Nazi Germany’s Luftwaffe fought the world’s first great air campaign
By Barrett Tillman

Malta Spitfire
American fighter ace Claude Weaver III DFC DFM
By Clive Rowley, MBE RAF (Ret.)

Wings of the Fleet
Celebrating the Navy’s 250-year legacy
By Barrett Tillman

A Tall Order
The final flights of “Philippine Mars”—the last
airworthy Martin JRM Mars flying boat
By Jan Tegler

Warbug in the Pacific
Surviving combat in a Stinson OY-1/L-5
By Lt. Thomas Rozga, USMC (Ret.), as told to and written by James P. Busha