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The Casket Crew

by Arch Whithouse

ONE-Oh-Nine Squadron of the Independent Air Force was the craziest bomber squadron on the Western Front and Handley Page No.11 was the reason why. It was flown by The Casket Crew: Lieutenant Graham Townsend, the mad Englishman, pilot of No.11; Lieutenant Phil Armitage, equally crazy American, the reserve pilot and bombing officer; Corporal Andy McGregor, wearing his Scottish kilts, aerial gunner; with Sergeant Michael Ryan, silent fighting Irishman on the toggle board and Corporal Harry Marks, dizzy Australian, manning the rear gun-turret. There was enough insanity scrawled across the log book of No.11 to make the wildest fiction seem tame in comparison!


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


“Sky Writers, April 1936″ by Terry Gilkison

Link - Posted November 18, 2024 @ 6:00 am in

Test your war-air knowledge and try your hand at this month’s quiz!

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“A Fine Man—The Colonel” by Andrew A. Caffrey

Link - Posted November 15, 2024 @ 6:00 am in

Corporal Fox didn’t think that one camp would hold HIM, Sg’t Beervat and Adjutant Lowpockets—and it didn’t. But the Colonel was a fine man.

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“Quentin Roosevelt’s Last Flight” by Paul J. Bissell

Link - Posted November 11, 2024 @ 6:00 am in

THIS week we present another of Paul Bissell’s covers for Flying Aces! Bissell is mainly known for doing the covers of Flying Aces from 1931 through 1934 when C.B. Mayshark took over duties. For the October 1931 cover Bissell renders Quentin Roosevelt’s last flight…
Quentin Roosevelt’s Last Flight
THE death of Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt on July 14th, [...]

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“The Doomed Squadron” by E.W. Chess

Link - Posted November 8, 2024 @ 6:00 am in

Thirty-four pilots gone—one by one they screamed to their death, and not a Hun in the sky! And each one that was found had bitten off the end of his tongue . . . . What was the terrible force operating on the Doomed Sguadron?

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How the War Crates Flew: What Made ‘Em Fly

Link - Posted November 5, 2024 @ 6:00 am in

NOW you wise young sons and daughters of a double eagle, or maybe it was a buzzard, maybe you hadn’t noticed it before but if you had looked a little carefully at all the nice pictures of the war crates on the covers of SKY FIGHTERS you might have noticed that nearly every one of them without exception had something peculiar about it.

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“Send Him Up with Sanders” by Wallace R. Bamber

Link - Posted November 1, 2024 @ 6:00 am in

When a new pilot came up to the Squadron the C.O. said “Send him up with Sanders”—and Sanders never failed to know at once a good pilot from a bad one. And no one knew his method!

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“From Spad to Worse” by Joe Archibald

Link - Posted October 25, 2024 @ 6:00 am in

Two weeks’ leave and no Spad to fly anywhere in—what do you do in a case like that? Easy—just take a leaf from Phineas “Carbuncle” Pinkham’s book and go—

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“The Roaring Towns: Weaverville, California” by Frederick Blakeslee

Link - Posted October 21, 2024 @ 6:00 am in

This time Robbins and Blakeslee tell us the tale of Weaverville, California—a gold rush boom town that made it and still stands today with a lot of it’s old 1850’s charm.

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“Thirty Hours to Live” by Franklin M. Ritchie

Link - Posted October 18, 2024 @ 6:00 am in

With a weird shrieking whir, the airplane streaked for earth like a flaming comet. The pilot’s chum turned yellow and fled, but—read it and see for yourself!

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“The Roaring Towns: Soya, Texas” by Frederick Blakeslee

Link - Posted October 14, 2024 @ 6:00 am in

This time Robbins and Blakeslee tell us the tale of Soya, Texas—a town now lost to the sands of time.

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