andyf117 Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 For those interested in such things, I've recently located three archive sources from where pdf copies of MAC, SAC and TAC magazines can all be freely downloaded: 239 issues (plus separate indexes) of The MAC Flyer are here: https://archive.org/search.php?query=The MAC Flyer&and[]=mediatype%3A"texts"&and[]=collection%3A"pub_mac-flyer" 151 issues of SAC's Combat Crew are here: https://archive.org/search.php?query=Combat+Crew&sort=titleSorter&and[]=firstTitle:C&and[]=subject%3A"United+States.+Air+Force.+Strategic+Air+Command" 375 issues of TAC Attack are available here: https://www.acc.af.mil/Units/ACC-Safety/Magazine-Archive/ Downloads are all quick and hassle-free... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gator52 Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 Interesting, thanks! Chris Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KursadA Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 Holy smokes - there is a ton of amazing material there. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
andyf117 Posted December 12, 2021 Author Share Posted December 12, 2021 In the interests of fairness, I should include the Naval Aviation News archive too: https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/naval-aviation-history/naval-aviation-news/back-issues.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
johncrow Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 Fleagle lives! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dutch Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 Andy, I was well aware of the Naval Aviation News archive, raiding it routinely, but thank you very much for the SAC, TAC, & MAC pages. Truly a treasure trove. K/r, Dutch Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ben Brown Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 These are great! ADC had one called Interceptor. My uncle gave me a stack of them when I was a kid. Ben Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chuck1945 Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 I remember the Tac Attack back in the day. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
andyf117 Posted December 17, 2021 Author Share Posted December 17, 2021 2 hours ago, Ben Brown said: These are great! ADC had one called Interceptor. My uncle gave me a stack of them when I was a kid. Ben There are 47 assorted issues of Interceptor here: https://www.f-106deltadart.com/piwigo/index.php?/category/584 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ben Brown Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 2 hours ago, andyf117 said: There are 47 assorted issues of Interceptor here: https://www.f-106deltadart.com/piwigo/index.php?/category/584 Thanks for the link! My uncle, Lt Col Miedrich, wrote an article in the June ‘76 issue. That Miss Interceptor on the last page would be a grandmother now. Times sure have changed since back then! Ben Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SERNAK Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 On 12/12/2021 at 10:34 AM, andyf117 said: In the interests of fairness, I should include the Naval Aviation News archive too: https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/naval-aviation-history/naval-aviation-news/back-issues.html It will be interesting to find in which issue the magazine mentions the creation of TOPGUN (it certainly doesn't in May 69' - just checked the issue) or an article about the school during operations. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
V-22 Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 Very nice Quote Link to post Share on other sites
andyf117 Posted October 2, 2023 Author Share Posted October 2, 2023 (edited) Just discovered these - haven't checked all the years for completeness, but the archive goes right back to 1953: https://armyaviationmagazine.com/archive/back-issues/ Have discovered the link for the third 1976 issue is broken, and opens a page incorrectly instead of downloading automatically - the page address just needs altering to end '76_03.pdf' And these - all of the recent issues are freely-available, but it appears that access to the older archived ones require an official(?) login: https://home.army.mil/novosel/aviationdigest It appears, however, that the vast majority of earlier issues are also available here: https://archive.org/search?query=Aviation+Digest Edited October 3, 2023 by andyf117 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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