Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
VINTAGE NEWS - The latest preservation news from Michael Oakey
TESTED AND FAILED - Derek Collier Webb takes a look at Britain's unhappy post-war flirtation with tailless aircraft - in particular the D.H.108 Swallow
SAAB'S FLYING START - Air to Air photographs of the Swedish Flygvapenmuseum's unique airworthy Saab B17A
A LIFE IN SERVICE - The second half of the late Fit Lt George Tuff's account of his 49-year career as an engineer in the RAF/MoD
MILITARY PERSONAL ALBUM - Photographs of RAF and Luftwaffe aircraft taken mostly at Tangmere from the mid-1940s
LIMITED EDITIONS - Philip Jarrett spotlights the one and only Vought Corsair V-66E biplane to be tested in the UK
STATESIDE SEABIRD - Recent air-to-air photographs of the Polar Aviation Museum's Fairey Gannet T.5
THE LONGEST DROP - Part Two of the late Gp Capt Leslie King's recollections of parachuting the SOE into Japanese-occupied South-east Asia during 1945
SKYWRITERS - Readers' letters
GREAT MOMENTS IN AVIATION - The first non-stop flight from Moscow to the USA
CENTRE-SPREAD - Another photograph by John Dibbs, whose work illustrates Aeroplane's new free calendar for 1998. It depicts Bruce Lockwood at the controls of the Santa Monica Museum of Flying's Republic P-47 Thunderbolt in July this year
THE EDWARDS STORY - Peter j.R. Holthusen recounts the history of Edwards Air Force Base, the home of the USAF's Flight Test Center and also the scene of much experimental flight testing by NASA and other agencies
AMERICAN MIGHT - Photographs graphically illustrating the strength of the USA's aviation industry during World War Two
THE MILES JETS - John Fricker concludes his two-part history of the one-off Miles Student jet trainer
RAF HENDON:THE FINAL YEARS - Nigel Trendell, who flew from Hendon with 31 Sqn during the early Fifties, recalls its final active years
BOEING'S BRAVE EFFORT - Patrick Boniface recalls the Boeing company's two-seat L-15 Scout of the immediate post-war years
THE ACES - Ken Aitken caricatures German World War One ace Werner Voss
CHRISTMAS FAYRE - Some ideas for Christmas presents and stocking-fillers
COMPETITION - This month's Diversions competition offers readers the chance to win copies of the first two volumes of Putnam's History of Aircraft
TESTED AND FAILED - Derek Collier Webb takes a look at Britain's unhappy post-war flirtation with tailless aircraft - in particular the D.H.108 Swallow
SAAB'S FLYING START - Air to Air photographs of the Swedish Flygvapenmuseum's unique airworthy Saab B17A
A LIFE IN SERVICE - The second half of the late Fit Lt George Tuff's account of his 49-year career as an engineer in the RAF/MoD
MILITARY PERSONAL ALBUM - Photographs of RAF and Luftwaffe aircraft taken mostly at Tangmere from the mid-1940s
LIMITED EDITIONS - Philip Jarrett spotlights the one and only Vought Corsair V-66E biplane to be tested in the UK
STATESIDE SEABIRD - Recent air-to-air photographs of the Polar Aviation Museum's Fairey Gannet T.5
THE LONGEST DROP - Part Two of the late Gp Capt Leslie King's recollections of parachuting the SOE into Japanese-occupied South-east Asia during 1945
SKYWRITERS - Readers' letters
GREAT MOMENTS IN AVIATION - The first non-stop flight from Moscow to the USA
CENTRE-SPREAD - Another photograph by John Dibbs, whose work illustrates Aeroplane's new free calendar for 1998. It depicts Bruce Lockwood at the controls of the Santa Monica Museum of Flying's Republic P-47 Thunderbolt in July this year
THE EDWARDS STORY - Peter j.R. Holthusen recounts the history of Edwards Air Force Base, the home of the USAF's Flight Test Center and also the scene of much experimental flight testing by NASA and other agencies
AMERICAN MIGHT - Photographs graphically illustrating the strength of the USA's aviation industry during World War Two
THE MILES JETS - John Fricker concludes his two-part history of the one-off Miles Student jet trainer
RAF HENDON:THE FINAL YEARS - Nigel Trendell, who flew from Hendon with 31 Sqn during the early Fifties, recalls its final active years
BOEING'S BRAVE EFFORT - Patrick Boniface recalls the Boeing company's two-seat L-15 Scout of the immediate post-war years
THE ACES - Ken Aitken caricatures German World War One ace Werner Voss
CHRISTMAS FAYRE - Some ideas for Christmas presents and stocking-fillers
COMPETITION - This month's Diversions competition offers readers the chance to win copies of the first two volumes of Putnam's History of Aircraft
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