Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Grapevine - Philip Jarrett returns with his monthly review of happenings in the aircraft preservation world
Fledgling - Part 2 - Accepted into the RAF on a Short Service Commission in 1937, James Read has completed his ab initio training and has embarked on an advanced training course on Harts and Audaxes at RAF Tern Hill
Test Pilot Profile No 8 - Neville Duke - Don Middleton describes the career of the man whose name will for ever remain synonymous with the Hawker Hunter
Personal Album - A selection of photographs taken aboard the escort carrier HMS Striker during World War Two
Skywriters
Blackbirds in Britain - Part 1 - The sinister, dark shape of the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird has been operating from the UK for more than thirteen years?yet it remains the most mysterious aircraft ever to appear in our skies. Paul Crickmore recently visited the SR-71 base at RAF Mildenhall and, in the first half of his report, he describes what he found
Auster's white elephant - In 1945 the Ministry of Supply issued Specification A2/45 for an Air Observation Post to replace the Army's ageing Austers. Anxious to provide such a replacement the Auster company built two prototypes in 1947. Richard Riding describes the Auster A2/45, the largest aircraft to be built by the Rearsby-based company
Wings of Peace - Part 3 - John Stroud's series on between the wars airliners continues with the Farman Goliath
Charles Sims - A tribute to "The Aeroplane's" distinguished photographer who died on October 18, aged 82
Preservation Profile - The Tiger Club's veteran Tiger Moth G-ACDC, featured on our front cover, has had a life packed with thrills and spills
Hendon's Ninack - The de Havilland D.H.9A was the most famous RAF day bomber of World War One. A surviving example, F1010, has been meticulously rebuilt by the Royal Air Force Museum and is now on display in the Museum's Bomber Command annexe, lan Frimston describes its restoration and outlines the history of the type
Cockpits of the RAF - Part 3 - In the third part of his survey L. F. E. Coombs examines the "pilot's place" from 1918 to the end of the biplane era
Where are they now?
Brrrr! de Havilland - The winners of our Ah! de Havilland competition (see the August 1983 issue) took to the air on Sunday, October 30 in Russavia's Dragon Rapide
Our seasonal front cover photograph, featuring the Tiger Club's veteran D.H. Tiger Moth G-ACDC, was taken last winter by NORMAN PEALING in the Redhill area, where the Tiger is based. The pilot was S. Claus. G-ACDC is the subject of this month's Preservation Profile - see pages 666-7. The January issue will be published on December 16.
Fledgling - Part 2 - Accepted into the RAF on a Short Service Commission in 1937, James Read has completed his ab initio training and has embarked on an advanced training course on Harts and Audaxes at RAF Tern Hill
Test Pilot Profile No 8 - Neville Duke - Don Middleton describes the career of the man whose name will for ever remain synonymous with the Hawker Hunter
Personal Album - A selection of photographs taken aboard the escort carrier HMS Striker during World War Two
Skywriters
Blackbirds in Britain - Part 1 - The sinister, dark shape of the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird has been operating from the UK for more than thirteen years?yet it remains the most mysterious aircraft ever to appear in our skies. Paul Crickmore recently visited the SR-71 base at RAF Mildenhall and, in the first half of his report, he describes what he found
Auster's white elephant - In 1945 the Ministry of Supply issued Specification A2/45 for an Air Observation Post to replace the Army's ageing Austers. Anxious to provide such a replacement the Auster company built two prototypes in 1947. Richard Riding describes the Auster A2/45, the largest aircraft to be built by the Rearsby-based company
Wings of Peace - Part 3 - John Stroud's series on between the wars airliners continues with the Farman Goliath
Charles Sims - A tribute to "The Aeroplane's" distinguished photographer who died on October 18, aged 82
Preservation Profile - The Tiger Club's veteran Tiger Moth G-ACDC, featured on our front cover, has had a life packed with thrills and spills
Hendon's Ninack - The de Havilland D.H.9A was the most famous RAF day bomber of World War One. A surviving example, F1010, has been meticulously rebuilt by the Royal Air Force Museum and is now on display in the Museum's Bomber Command annexe, lan Frimston describes its restoration and outlines the history of the type
Cockpits of the RAF - Part 3 - In the third part of his survey L. F. E. Coombs examines the "pilot's place" from 1918 to the end of the biplane era
Where are they now?
Brrrr! de Havilland - The winners of our Ah! de Havilland competition (see the August 1983 issue) took to the air on Sunday, October 30 in Russavia's Dragon Rapide
Our seasonal front cover photograph, featuring the Tiger Club's veteran D.H. Tiger Moth G-ACDC, was taken last winter by NORMAN PEALING in the Redhill area, where the Tiger is based. The pilot was S. Claus. G-ACDC is the subject of this month's Preservation Profile - see pages 666-7. The January issue will be published on December 16.
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