True Aviation Picture-Stories #12

In December 1942, four U.S. Army airmen aboard a B-17 face a harrowing test when engine failure forces their pilot, Lt. B.L. Miller, to attempt an emergency landing over Pennsylvania's hilly terrain—but the navigator, Lt. E.R. Gardner, becomes trapped when his parachute deploys inside the aircraft. With a thousand gallons of fuel aboard and a farmhouse directly in their path, the crew must work together to save Gardner and get the crippled bomber down in one piece.

Lt. Warren F. Bacon thought he was making a routine flight over an English bomber base in his unarmed Flying Fortress until he found himself caught between a German Ju-88 and the very Nazi formation it was flying with. When enemy fighters close in and his own guns can't help, Bacon's only option is to pray that the British night fighters arrive in time to save the day.

Lincoln Beachey earned his reputation as aviation's most daring showman by attempting aerial feats that others said were impossible—from diving under Niagara Falls' bridge to looping the loop eighty consecutive times. This biography traces his most legendary stunts across the early 1900s, including a harrowing race with Barney Oldfield and a gravity-defying dive over the Panama-Pacific Exposition. True to his word that he'd never endanger spectators, Beachey lived by a pilot's code that defined his fearless legacy.