Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Grapevine - Michael Oakey's monthly review of happenings in the aircraft preservation world, including hot news of two recent arrivals in the UK from the former Soviet Union
On silver wings - Part 19 Alee Lumsden recounts the development history of the Gloster Gladiator
Nothing ventured . . . Philip Jarrett begins a three-part history of the Airspeed and General Aircraft Night Shadowers of 1940 ? early attempts at what today would be called Stealth aircraft
Give us a ring - Maurice Allward relates the history of the drag-reducing Townend Ring
The first air raid - Patrick Abbott analyses a 14th Century manuscript illustration which depicts what could be the first instance of bombardment from the air
The lost squadron - Former 245 Sqn Typhoon pilot John Golley recalls alarming "fun and games" with the communist resistance behind enemy lines in World War Two
F.D.2 metamorphosis - In the first of an occasional series on British post-war experimental and research aircraft, Barry Jones examines Fairey F. D. 2 WG 774 and its transformation into the BAC221
Skywriters
Within an Ace - Bob Grimstead tries his hand at the unorthodox controls of the Chrislea Ace. Colour photography by Michael A Court
Personal album ? military A selection of photographs taken on the occasion of the 1929 Schneider Trophy Contest, held in the Solent
Preservation profile - Kermit Weeks's Mosquito B.35 RS712/M35MK, based in Florida, is this month's subject
Wings of peace - John Stroud's series on between-the-wars European airliners ends with Part Two of his account of the German passenger Zeppelins
Personal album ? civil A further selection of photographs from the album of the late E. J. Riding, featuring British-registered American and British types photographed in the UK during the Thirties
Baynes: the unknown innovator ? Part 2 In his series on the career of designer L. E. Baynes, William Morse MRAeS describes the inventive Scud I and Scud II gliders of the late Twenties and early Thirties
Spitfire Notebook ? Part 18 This month, the Spitfire XIV
Diversions - Our annual Win a flight competition offers ten Tiger Moth trips as prizes this month. Winners will spend an Augustday with Mithril Racing Ltd at Goodwood and sample the delights of open-cockpit aviation
On silver wings - Part 19 Alee Lumsden recounts the development history of the Gloster Gladiator
Nothing ventured . . . Philip Jarrett begins a three-part history of the Airspeed and General Aircraft Night Shadowers of 1940 ? early attempts at what today would be called Stealth aircraft
Give us a ring - Maurice Allward relates the history of the drag-reducing Townend Ring
The first air raid - Patrick Abbott analyses a 14th Century manuscript illustration which depicts what could be the first instance of bombardment from the air
The lost squadron - Former 245 Sqn Typhoon pilot John Golley recalls alarming "fun and games" with the communist resistance behind enemy lines in World War Two
F.D.2 metamorphosis - In the first of an occasional series on British post-war experimental and research aircraft, Barry Jones examines Fairey F. D. 2 WG 774 and its transformation into the BAC221
Skywriters
Within an Ace - Bob Grimstead tries his hand at the unorthodox controls of the Chrislea Ace. Colour photography by Michael A Court
Personal album ? military A selection of photographs taken on the occasion of the 1929 Schneider Trophy Contest, held in the Solent
Preservation profile - Kermit Weeks's Mosquito B.35 RS712/M35MK, based in Florida, is this month's subject
Wings of peace - John Stroud's series on between-the-wars European airliners ends with Part Two of his account of the German passenger Zeppelins
Personal album ? civil A further selection of photographs from the album of the late E. J. Riding, featuring British-registered American and British types photographed in the UK during the Thirties
Baynes: the unknown innovator ? Part 2 In his series on the career of designer L. E. Baynes, William Morse MRAeS describes the inventive Scud I and Scud II gliders of the late Twenties and early Thirties
Spitfire Notebook ? Part 18 This month, the Spitfire XIV
Diversions - Our annual Win a flight competition offers ten Tiger Moth trips as prizes this month. Winners will spend an Augustday with Mithril Racing Ltd at Goodwood and sample the delights of open-cockpit aviation
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