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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
INTAGE NEWS - The latest preservation news from Michael Oakey a€ including expansion plans for the Fleet Air Arm Museum, Lang Kidby's forthcoming England- Australia attempt in an Avro Avian and the official handover of Comet Canopus FROM ERK TO NAVIGATOR - Bryan McElney concludes his recollections of his National Service career in the RAF in the 1950s, recounting his training as a navigator on Wellington T.10s and some of the incidents that befell him THE ACES - Canadian William Barker VC, a gifted and determined World War One fighter pilot, is this month's subject A CHAMPION CZECH PILOT - With the recent death of Ladislav Marmol, general aviation has lost a great character. John Fricker recounts some of the many episodes in the adventurous life of the Czechoslovakian-born pilot, a master of glider aerobatics and a pioneer of agricultural aviation MAGNIFICENT MARTIN - Michael O'Leary reports on Airliners of America's Martin 4-0-4, rare survivor from the glory days of propliners, which flies to displays throughout the Western USA FORTRESS FLOTSAM - Photographs of a 327th Bomb Squadron Boeing B-1 7F Flying Fortress, based at RAF Alconbury and washed ashore at Sheerness, Kent, in August 1943 after ditching in the Channel CIVIL PERSONAL ALBUM - Photographs of civil aircraft taken mostly at Pengam Moors, Cardiff, in the early 1950s AFRICAN QUEENS - Alee Lumsden concludes his account of the epic West Africa Cruise from Heliopolis to Bathurst and back by Vickers Victorias of 21 6 Sqn in 1933 PROPS MAN - In a field amidst th'e rolling farmland just north of Toronto in Canada, aircraft lie abandoned like remnants of an American invasion. Wally Fydenchuk meets the man who supplies aviation props to the film world MILITARY PERSONAL ALBUM - Photographs mostly of RAF aircraft taken on Malta during the late 1950s and early 1960s MR PEARSON'S PERILOUS PUSHER - Bizarre aeroplanes have come in all shapes and sizes. One of the smallest and most curious was the Pearson-Pickering KP-2 of 1933, which employed an unconventional system for lateral control, as described by Richard Riding A POINTLESS EXERCISE - JM. Bruce concludes his two-part account of Great Britain's 1912 Military Aeroplane Competition in which the War Office sought a€" with a conspicuous lack of success a€" to select a suitable aircraft for the British Army CROSSWIND - John Maynard's regular comment column SKYWRITERS - Readers' letters ARMCHAIR AVIATION - More reviews of the latest books and videos FRONT COVER - A Stateside Supermarine Spitfire duo featuring Mk XVIII TP280, owned by Rudy Frasca and based in Illinois, and Bernie Jackson's California-based LF.XVIE RW382. Both aircraft were put back in the air in the UK in the early 1990s by Historic Flying at Audley End.
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