Over recent years, some of the finest modeling magazines produced have been French. They are all renown for having superb articles, excellent photography and outstanding technical drawings and color profiles. It is no only in modeling magazines where this is true, but also in aviation history magazines.

Aero Journal is such an example. If this edition is a typical, it is a magazine that should be sought. Included are the following articles:

• History of the Ar-234 'Blitz' jet bomber

• 'What happened to the French contracts?', a brief rundown of the fate of those aircraft ordered from the US by France before the fall in June 1940

• Kobayashi and the B-29

• Gruppe Kuhlmey, an article on a German ground attack unit in Finland late in the war.

• A story on the loss of Swedish ELINT aircraft in the Baltic

• Mohawk, the story of the Curtiss Mohawk in Commonwealth service

• A unit history, this time GC II/4

Much to my immense disappointment, the English supplement only covered the first two articles. There was a note about the translator being overworked. Too bad as the Ar-234 article was very well written indeed.  Even without the translation, the magazine is very nice and one that you should put on your list of things to look into the next time you are at the bookshop.

Review copy courtesy of  Air Connection

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