James Hay Stevens

{{Short description|Aviation journalist (1913–1973)}}

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{{Use British English|date=December 2011}}

James Hay Stevens {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CEng|FRAeS}}Air pictorial: journal of the Air League (1973), Volume 35 (page 146) (10 November 1913 – 1973Flight International, 15 March 1973 ([http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1973/1973%20-%200638.html page 366])) was an aviation journalist, editor of Aircraft Engineering (1945-1957) magazine, illustrator and pilot. He created the Skybirds range of 1:72 scale model aircraft kits produced by A. J. Holladay & Co., the same scale later being adopted by Airfix.New Scientist, 12 August 1971. ([https://books.google.com/books?id=fqkkbpoFA5oC&dq=James+Hay-Stevens&pg=PA376 page 376])Arthur Ward, The Boys' Book of Airfix: Who Says You Ever Have to Grow Up?, Publisher: Random House, 2009, {{ISBN|0-09-192898-2}}, {{ISBN|978-0-09-192898-8}}, 192 pages ([https://books.google.com/books?id=sQqlOBvWzE4C&dq=James%20Hay-Stevens%20airfix&pg=PT50 page 49]) Between 1938-1939 he contributed articles and illustrations to Air Stories magazine,"[http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/s3122.htm#A101656 James Hay Stevens]", Phil Stephensen-Payne website, retrieved 20 October 2011. and between 1959–1967, he contributed articles to the newspaper The Times.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 Borehamwood.