Scope, depth, & range – variety in every issue

Each issue of our CAHS Journal is filled with well-researched articles, first-person accounts, profiles of important people and aircraft, and, when available, reviews of new aviation history books. It’s not all text, though: Throughout you will find photos, maps, and other illustrations – many of which may have been rarely published, if at all. When we do choose to use previously published illustrative material, we do so with contextual relevance to the subject at hand in mind, and strive to avoid the generic where the specific will benefit the overall coverage of whatever the subject of the day might be.
A gallery of the latest six CAHS Journal covers, featuring artwork by Robert Bradford, Peter J. Robichaud, Don Connolly, and Paul Tuttle. Journal 56-2 will go to print soon, 56-1 is on its way, and since membership has their copies of the remaining four, they are now available in the shop. 
Unless the issue at hand is a themed special edition, we also work to keep the range of subject as varied as possibles within any given issue. The preferred approach is to select articles from more than one or two of the recognized historical periods in aviation history and within those, a good mix of the biographical with historical accounts of aircraft types, makers, operators (both civil and military), and aviation technologies. 

The recognized historical periods are usually understood to be:
  • Early or Pioneer (pre First World War) - 1913 and before;
  • First World War - 1914 to1918;
  • Golden Era (the early bush-plane years, or or the "bush pilots in uniform" years in Canadiana-speak) - 1919 to 1938;
  • Second World War - 1939 to 1945 and;
  • Post War - 1946 to present, minus 20. 

Heading into the second decade of the new century with Y2K now some twenty years in the rear view, "Post War" can probably be further segmented into Cold War and Post Cold War. Perhaps? ​​​Well, you get the picture.

Whatever the case, we do our best to publish a good variety, both in terms of period and subject genre, across each annual volume's four numbered issues. For the most part we tend to achieve this, but the reality of randomized availability does sometimes means the goal is often aspirational. In recognition of that, I will be posting  "wants and needs" here from time to time. Maybe some of you out there can help us keep the output in line with aspiration?
Thanks and regards,
Terry Higgins,
​CAHS Journal managing editor & graphics director

CAHS Journal Distributions & the Web Shop

Since 2010, the CAHS Journal has been published in two editions – print and digital. The former is distributed to our Traditional Membership, Museum Membership, and Corporate Sponsor Membership and the latter to our Online Membership. With the advent of this website, we also offer instant-download PDFs of individual articles and article compendia – both extracted from our digital editions – as part of our new digital publications catalogue.

This website's Shop makes available all CAHS Journals, 2010 to present, in both print and digital editions, as well as the range of articles and compendia from all issues since 2010. It is intended that our digital products, with their fully searchable textual content and high fidelity (comparable to high-quality print-production norms) graphical content,  may offer a useful variation for any readers library – whether researcher, writer, or enthusiast, member, or non-member.
Digital editions are also a good option for those looking for sold-out back-issues. However, if "print" is your preference, we have also negotiated an equitable Print on Demand (POD) arrangement with our printers. Within it, any Journal published using our digital workflow (in effect since 2010) but out of stock in its original print-production form will be made available in POD form if a POD run is triggered by a back-issue order. The first such POD edition is now available in the Shop.

Legacy (pre-2010) print editions are still available as either remaining inventory of the original print runs, or as staple-bound copy prints (usually photo-copies). We've started adding these to the shop, which is now fully searchable by title or author. Check this NewsFlash for further details.

It should be noted here that, while the CAHS Shop is open to all, our CAHS Journal membership distributions will always be delivered a full two weeks to a month before any given new edition, or it's individual articles, are made available here. Likewise, compendia will only post to the shop within a month of the last article instalment of any given series is distributed to the membership.
Scroll down for more information on the latest CAHS Journal activity.

​The Latest CAHS Journal to press

Here's a preview of the contents of CAHS Journal Volume 56 Number 1 (Spring 2018) which is somewhere between here and membership delivery by Canada Post. The digital version, a PDF sent via email, is usually distributed to the Online Membership within 2 days of confirmation that the print version has gone in the mail to the Traditional Membership. Both print and digital editions will be available in the Shop within a month of these membership distributions. individual articles will also be made available in the shop at that time.

The Latest CAHS Journal Available to Non-Members

Here's a feature-by-feature overview of CAHS Journal Volume 55 Number 4 (Winter 2017) which is now posted in the Shop and available to all – members and non-members alike in both print and digital edition form. The individual articles from this issue are also now available in the shop in instant-download PDF form.
The concluding part of the "NASA's Super-STOL Buffaloes" trilogy ended in this issue and the instant download compendia containing all three parts of the series is now available in the shop.

& at the same time…

As part of our ongoing effort to catch up the serialized cover dates to the publication dates, CAHS Journal Volume 55 Number 3 (Fall 2017) was distributed to the membership at the same time as Volume 55 Number 4 and is also now posted in the Shop  in both print and digital edition form, along with its individual articles.
The concluding part of Hugh Halliday's epic "The Curious Case of Ernest Lloyd Janney…" ended in this issue and the instant download compendia containing all five instalments is now available in the shop.

Next-up

CAHS Journal Volume 56 Number 2 (Summer 2018) is the current work-in-progress. Features include: the second chapter of Clark Seaborn's "Wooden Wings Over the Wilderness"; a little-known Avro investigation on "Jet Aircraft Operation Cruise Control" by David Waechter; the second instalment of Bill Upton's "Canadair CL-84 Dynavert" technology history; and The Croil Report on Visits to Operational RCAF Stations in 1929" as found and commented by Hugh Halliday.

​​Please check in again later – we'll be posting availability details soon.

Article selection and some of the layout work has also begun for Journals 56-3 and 56-4 and, to a lesser extent, 57-1.