Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Grapevine - Michael Oakey's monthly review of happenings in the aircraft preservation world. Salute to the Sunderiand - Part 1 628 Ex-Sunderland crew member Ken Robinson reviews the history of Short Brothers' greatest flying-boat in the 50th anniversary year of its maiden flight
Per mare probare - In Part Nine of their series on aeroplanes tested by the Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment at Felixstowe in Suffolk, Alee Lumsden and Terry Heffernan describe the curiously-named Short Knuckleduster flying-boat of 1933
Testing the American jets?the second generation - In the last three issues Roland Beamont recalled test-flying early American military lets in 1948. This month he begins an account of his return visit to the USA 10yr later, to fly a new generation of supersonic fighters
Skywriters
Confrontation with the Beverley ? Part 2 - Bill Overton concludes his two-part account of the Blackburn Beveriey's role in the Indonesian Confrontation of 1962-66, during which the RAF's bulky but agile transport air-dropped a staggering 30 million pounds of freight in support of ground forces
Personal album - A collection of photographs depicting damaged and abandoned Messerschmitt Bf 109s in the Western Desert during the early days of the Middle East campaign of World War Two. from the files of Howard Levy
Armchair aviation - A selection of books for good Christmas reading
Images of war ? Part 2 - In Part Two of a series on RAF air photography. Paul Lamboit describes the achievements of the reconnaissance units based on Malta during World War Two
Preservation profile - Potted history of the much-travelled Miles Gemini G-AISD. built 41 yr ago and still going strong
Wings of peace - John Stroud's series on between-the-wars European airliners continues' with the spectacular Junkers-G 38
For business and pleasure - Mike Jerram resumes his series on British post-war private and club aircraft with Part Five of the Auster story, in which he describes the three-seat Auster V J/1 Autocrat?the only individual British light aeroplane model produced in substantial numbers since the war
Per mare probare - In Part Nine of their series on aeroplanes tested by the Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment at Felixstowe in Suffolk, Alee Lumsden and Terry Heffernan describe the curiously-named Short Knuckleduster flying-boat of 1933
Testing the American jets?the second generation - In the last three issues Roland Beamont recalled test-flying early American military lets in 1948. This month he begins an account of his return visit to the USA 10yr later, to fly a new generation of supersonic fighters
Skywriters
Confrontation with the Beverley ? Part 2 - Bill Overton concludes his two-part account of the Blackburn Beveriey's role in the Indonesian Confrontation of 1962-66, during which the RAF's bulky but agile transport air-dropped a staggering 30 million pounds of freight in support of ground forces
Personal album - A collection of photographs depicting damaged and abandoned Messerschmitt Bf 109s in the Western Desert during the early days of the Middle East campaign of World War Two. from the files of Howard Levy
Armchair aviation - A selection of books for good Christmas reading
Images of war ? Part 2 - In Part Two of a series on RAF air photography. Paul Lamboit describes the achievements of the reconnaissance units based on Malta during World War Two
Preservation profile - Potted history of the much-travelled Miles Gemini G-AISD. built 41 yr ago and still going strong
Wings of peace - John Stroud's series on between-the-wars European airliners continues' with the spectacular Junkers-G 38
For business and pleasure - Mike Jerram resumes his series on British post-war private and club aircraft with Part Five of the Auster story, in which he describes the three-seat Auster V J/1 Autocrat?the only individual British light aeroplane model produced in substantial numbers since the war
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