James Hay Stevens

Who is James Hay Stevens?

James Hay Stevens C.Eng, FRAeS, was an aviation journalist, editor of Aircraft Engineering 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. Between 1938-1939 he contributed articles and illustrations to Air Stories magazine, and between 1959-1967, he contributed articles to the newspaper The Times.

In 1933 he attended the College of Aeronautical Engineering in Chelsea, earning a first-class diploma for practice and theory.

He lived in Borehamwood.