Jim Ray's Aviation Sketchbook #2 (1946)

This anthology issue features "The Story of General 'Hap' Arnold," wartime chief of the U.S. Army Air Forces, and his message to young Americans, along with illustrated accounts of remarkable aviation incidents and innovations. Featured stories include flying farmers in Oklahoma who use light planes to inspect herds and assess flood damage; a B-25 Mitchell bomber that returned from an Italian mission with 400 holes from cannon fire; a P-51 pilot whose plane survived an ammunition train explosion beneath him, losing fabric and structural integrity but landing safely after two and a half hours of flight; and an explanation of the Army's experimental radio-controlled PQ (passenger and observer) drone aircraft, which is piloted remotely via FM radio signals from a mother plane flying approximately 100 feet behind it.