If you're interested in Dutch Military Aviation, you may have hear of De Vliegende Hollander, the official magazine of the Royal Netherlands Air Force (KLu).

I have hundreds of issues that I've collected over the last 40 years. Before disposing of the collection, I went looking for a digital archive and was surprised by how little of the older material appeared to be available online. Rather than see these magazines disappear, I started scanning and preserving them myself.

I've uploaded close to 200 issues to the Internet Archive so far, and am roughly halfway through the project. My collection has coverage from the 1960s through the 2010s, until the magazine went online-only.

What makes the collection fascinating to me is that it documents far more than aircraft introductions. Across several decades it provides a first-hand view of how the Dutch Air Force evolved and saw itself at the time.

The magazines cover topics such as: introduction of major type (F-104, NF-5, F-16, helis, tankers, F-35), modernization programs and mid-life upgrades; training deployments (to Canada, the United States, Iceland and elsewhere), NATO exercises throughout the Cold War and beyond, operations in various theatres (Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan for instance), as well as base life, personnel stories and day-to-day service within the KLu.

In many ways they serve as a time capsule of Dutch military aviation history, Cold War NATO operations, and the changing priorities of the Royal Netherlands Air Force over more than half a century.

I've attached a few sample covers from different decades below.

The project is ongoing, and there are still hundreds more issues waiting to be scanned and uploaded. For those of you who are in checking it out: https://archive.org/details/@devliegendebrabander

slowly leaving 25R over R0 to Paris...only to turn around a little later and come back due to adverse winds ( june 11 2011 ) own content.

• Modelo: Lisunov Li-2 / Douglas C-47 (avión bimotor de hélice de la Segunda Guerra Mundial / posguerra).

• Ubicación de esta unidad: Región de Kaliningrado, cerca de Gúryevsk en Rusia.

• Estado: Se encuentra en estado de abandono expuesto a la intemperie tras haber sido retirado de un pedestal conmemorativo.

On Veterans Day, November 11th, 10 Good Men streams worldwide on Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video. It is fantastic. It took the crew three years of constant work to find these heroes, interview them, and produce this film to tell their final stories. I will post the trailers here next week!

Sharing in case others here have an interest

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On the dark battlefields of World War II, German soldiers feared an enemy they could barely see and rarely heard... until it was too late. Out of the blackness came a faint whooshing sound. Seconds later, bombs rained from the sky, buildings crumbled, and chaos erupted across the Eastern Front. On this episode of Weird History we take a look at the mysterious Night Witches: an elite squadron of all-female Soviet pilots who became one of the most feared forces of World War II. Flying outdated wooden biplanes on daring nighttime bombing missions, they terrorized German troops, earned countless military honors, and cemented their place among history's most legendary warriors. Have you ever heard of the Night Witches? Let us know in the comments.

(Much like real history, this video was produced entirely by human beings.)

Photo by Horst Faas

Short S.45 Solent G-AHIU Solway and G-AKNS City of Liverpool up for scrapping Hamworthy Beach, Poole Harbour, England .Circa 1959

Hey everyone,

I unintentionally stumbled into aviation history, while researching short snorters, but I've enjoyed my journey and taken to a bit of aviation history.

In the process, I've started looking for and collecting aviation magazines from the early and golden era (through the 1930s). I'm often looking for more. I tend to search many resources, including ebay, internet archive, hathitrust, worldcat, abebooks, general internet searches, some current publishers of magazines...i may have missed a couple more avenues. My main point is I try to be thorough.

If you happen to know any business, site, or person who has these types of magazines and is looking to sell please let me know.

Thanks for reading. I appreciate everyone's time.

Photo by Gilles Caron

The Me-163 flew mainly with Jagdgeschwader 400, with the first combat sorties in late July 1944 and operations until the end of the war.

Most sources cite around 300 combat sorties, with estimates ranging from about 250 to 370.

On August 24, 1944 Sergeant Siegfried Schubert shot down two B-17s. Further successes were recorded in September, and on October 6, the first Me 163B was lost during a mission. On April 16, 1945, JG 400 shot down a total of twelve enemy aircraft with Me 163s. Combat operations lasted from May 1944 to the spring of 1945. During this period, there were 16 confirmed kills compared to 14 Me 163s lost.

Considerably more aircraft and pilots were lost in accidents, such as during takeoff and landing, and from the highly toxic, explosive propellants.

Hey everyone,

​I wanted to share a incredible piece of lighter-than-air history that came out of family storage and recently went up as a flagship listing at RR Auction.

​It’s the original 4-piece survivor archive of Philip Mangone, a prominent NYC fashion designer who survived the Hindenburg disaster at Naval Air Station Lakehurst on May 6, 1937.

​What makes this archive unique:

​The Passenger Ticket: The fragment of Mangone's ticket with distinct charring along the upper and lower edges from the fire. The only other known passenger ticket example is held in the Smithsonian.

​The Mid-Flight Radiogram: A telegram received aboard LZ 129 on May 5, 1937, while the airship was over the Atlantic Ocean, sent to Mangone with a brief promise "will meet you[u]"

​The Audio Broadcast Connection: In Herbert Morrison's famous live WLS radio recording ("Oh, the humanity!"), Morrison explicitly reads off survivor names as they were being identified—specifically calling out Philip Mangone.

​Artifact Fragments: An onboard passenger wine menu and a fragment of DZR Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei porcelain tableware. The wine menu is the only known example to have survived the inferno.

​It’s incredibly rare to see a complete, self-contained survivor archive hit the public space with an unbroken paper trail like this. RR Auction ended up making it the featured centerpiece on their homepage for the current sale.

​Thought the aviation history community here would appreciate seeing the close-up physical condition of the ticket and radiogram after nearly 90 years!

https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/351937707547015-hindenburg-disaster-original-ticket-radiogram-wine-menu-and-zeppelin-china-fragment-recovered-from-wreckage/?cat=3

Unfinished De Havilland Comet Mark 2 being taken through the streets of Chester , England to the airfield at Broughton for stress testing following the series of fatal crashes of the Comets in 1954. Date October or November 1955.

The DPAA announced in 2025 a recovery of 4 MIAs from a crash site in Poland. The official announcements mention field investigations between 2008 and 2012, then in 2017 and 2018, and excavations between 2019 and 2025. I researched this crew and the crash site between 2003 and 2011, and I supported the DPAA predecessor’s work, including participating in one of early field investigations.

The identified airmen were T/Sgt Donald A. Dorman, S/Sgt Robert A. Keuchel, S/Sgt Rae G. DeMatteis, S/Sgt Stephen J. Fatur. They were all members of the 1st Lt. Andrew F. Crane crew (2nd Bomb Group, 15th AF) which flew the B-17 #44-8191 on a mission to Ruhland (Germany) on March 22nd 1945.

I believe my research helped the US government link a crash site to the right aircraft, which triggered the recoveries and identifications.
This was the most complex research case I ever had, as nothing was even close to obvious.

If you want to find out more about my research, visit my Reddit profile.