James Hay Stevens ''Air pictorial: journal of the Air League'' (1973), Volume 35 (page 146) (10 November 1913 – 1973) was an aviation journalist, editor of ''Aircraft Engineering'' (1945-1957) magazine, illustrator and pilot. He created the Skybirds range of 1:72 scale

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kits produced by A. J. Holladay & Co., the same scale later being adopted by

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. Between 1938-1939 he contributed articles and illustrations to ''Air Stories'' magazine, and between 1959–1967, he contributed articles to the newspaper ''

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''.''The Times'' (London): "Building Aircraft" Tuesday, 1 September 1959, p. 13; Issue 54554. "Supersonic Traval" Thursday, 1 September 1960; p. 4, Issue 54865. "The Supersonic Airliner" Friday, 31 August 1962; p. 8, Issue 55484. "It is Subsonic for the Majority in the Next Decade" Thursday, 25 April 1963; pg. iii, Issue 55684. "Vertical And Short Take-Off" Thursday, 6 June 1963; pg. x, Issue 55720. "Blowing Themselves Up" Tuesday, 21 July 1964; pg. iii, Issue 56069. "Some British Firsts in the JET Field." Friday, 30 September 1966; p. 14, Issue 56750. "V.T.O.L.... early" Thursday, 25 May 1967; pg. vi, Issue 56950. In 1933 he attended the College of Aeronautical Engineering in Chelsea, earning a first-class diploma for practice and theory. He lived in

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*James Hay Stevens, ''The shape of the aeroplane'', Publ. Hutchinson 1953, 302 pages *James Hay Stevens, Maurice F. Allward, ''How and why of aircraft and their engines'', Publisher Putnam, 1952, 124 pages *James Hay Stevens, ''Aircraft recognition test and cut-away drawings of Spitfire, Hurricane and Lysandeer'', Publ. Air Training Corps Gazette, 1941 *James Hay Stevens, ''Scale model aircraft'', Publisher J. Hamilton ltd., 1933, 88 pages 1913 births 1973 deaths Aviation journalists British aviators British illustrators Fellows of the Royal Aeronautical Society English aerospace engineers People from Borehamwood {{aviation-bio-stub