Greetings Loyal Airmen, last week’s Flight Log was really short what with the holidays and all. It seemed like things were quiet in both the pulp and comics community. All of which is totally understandable.  But we trust things will soon start to pick up again real soon.

Which is as good a time as any to remind you Loyal Airmen that Chief Engineer Rob Davis and the Air Chief continue to record the Airship 27 Podcast once a month via the good folks at Zone 4. And we wanted to you know that all these shows are eventually available to listen on to on You Tube. Simply go to the main site, type in Airship 27 Podcast in the search bar and voila, all our previous 34 episodes will pop up. Note this past week we recorded number 35. It still blows our mind that we’ve been doing this now well over two years and as ever thanks for your continued support. If you want to keep abreast of what’s happening from month to month at Hangar 27, do listen to the show.

A few weeks ago we mentioned that we would soon be publishing the first ever full length Purple Scar novel as written by Gene Moyers with interior illustrations by Chris Kohler. We then went out recruited British artist Graham Hill to do our cover. Graham has done four other covers for us in the past and all have been stellar. Anyway, Graham has begun doing pencil roughs of pulpdom’s most frightening avenger and he just turned in the gruesome piece above. We just had to share it with you all you. This is the stuff of nightmares, Loyal Airmen, for sure.

Meanwhile our friends at Radio Archives continue to release our titles as audio books. This past week they put out the second Captain Hazzard novel Citadel of Fear, which the Air Chief co-authored with pal, Martin Powell. You can find it Audible.com at the link below. The reader is Stuart Gauffi and he does a fantastic job bringing the adventure to life. (https://www.audible.com/search/ref=a_hp_tseft?advsearchKeywords=Captain%20Citadel%20ofFear&filterby=field-keywords.)

A few months ago an artist on-line approached me about working together on any old classic comic hero from the 40s. The Air Chief agreed and did a little internet surfing until we found a character called The Invisible Hood. We then proceeded to write an 8 pg script for the artist in question. Who then promptly disappeared. Yup, just like that, gone. After several frustrating weeks, we opted to put out the word on our FB page that we had this script and no artist. Then, to much to our real delight, artist Mike Belcher replied almost immediately asking to read it. You may recall the Air Chief and Mike had worked together a little over a month ago on a very short 3 pg strip and both of us enjoyed the experience. We happily sent Mike the script and overnight he produced the gorgeous colored pin-up above. Yup, Mike is on board and we know you are going to love this one when completed. Stay tuned.

Finally the Air Chief has to believe that some of you Loyal Airmen do remember the days before Cable on how many of the networks actually produced original movies themselves.  Aptly called “made-for-tv-movies.” There were hundreds of these made in the 60s and 70s. One the Air Chief remembered fondly was “Sherlock Holmes in New York” which starred Roger Moore and Holmes, Patrick Macnee as Watson with John Huges and Prof. Moriarty and Charlotte Rampling as Irene Adler. We even then Holmes fans and the idea of Moore taking on the role was intriguing. We watched the airing with great expectations and it was a really well written, acted story with a great little mystery….which we humbly did solved before the Great Detective. This all happened in 1976 and ever since that one viewing, the Air Chief has longed to see it again. Well, among our wonderful Christmas gifts this year were several Amazon gift cards and we wasted no time ordering a copy of this movie. It arrived last week and this coming weekend we plan on making a batch of popcorn, seating ourselves in our comfortable recliner and once again entering one of Sherlock Holmes’ most unique cases on the busy streets of New York. Sometimes if you are lucky enough, you do get to revisit only memories.

And there you have it for this week’s Flight Log, Loyal Airmen. As ever thanks for stopping by and we’ll see you here next week.

Ron – Over & Out!