Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Features:
Protection by Deception - As part of our Hidden History series former Wellington aircrew member Dennis Cooke explains how, in August 1942, Air Vice-Marshal Keith Park helped to save a vital rehef convoy to Malta - by using false radio messages
Flying for a Song - Lewis Benjamin was part of a post-war effort by a group of enthusiasts to introduce a grass-roots flying club to the South Coast; he details the genesis, development and decline of Shoreham's Brookside Flying Club
Spitfire Women - For his superb new book, Spitfire Women of World War II. Giles Whittell spoke to more than a dozen survivors of the women's branch of the wartime Air Transport Auxiliary; he describes some of the exploits of this remarkable group of female pilots
Those Magnificent (French) Men - With the help of an old airshow programme,Johnny de Uphaugh takes us back in time to a gathering of flying pioneers in Nice in 1922
Mustang Show Report - The Gathering of Mustangs and Legends held at Columbus, Ohio, commemorated both man and machine. Aeroplane's Assistant Editor, Tony Harmsworth, was there and spoke to the veterans who flew the P-51 into history
Flying the Legend - The Tri-State Warbird Museum's President and Mustang pilot Paul Redlich guides us through flying America's most famous piston fighter. With photography by Xavier Meal
Regulars:
News - All the latest preservation news, compiled by Tony Harmsworth
Dogfight - Melvyn Hiscock and Aeroplane's Editor, Michael Oakey, debate whether World War One ace Werner Voss's natural skills as a pilot were instrumental in-almost-saving his life
From the Archives - Features Editor Nick Stroud delves into past issues of The Aeroplane. This month he goes back 50 years to December 1957
Aircrew - In Part Three of our new series on aircrew roles,James Kightly looks at that of an observer in a Supermarine Seagull V
Picture of the Month - From our archive of 70,000 glass-plate negatives ? the elegant Trident 1
Skywriters - A selection of readers' letters on a wide range of topics
Flying Visit - Melvyn Hiscock talks to former Gloster Chief Test Pilot Geoff Worrall
Crosswind - John Fricker provides sideways comment on the aviation world
Database: The Blackburn Suka & Roc:
- MATTHEW WILLIS tells the full story of Blackburn's two naval fighters, both often maligned as hopelessly outclassed and a disaster in combat - the Roc certainly was, but the Skua made a valuable wartime contribution
- The development of the Skua - includes scale drawings by Tim Hall
- A Skua with a turret? Why the Roc was considered "a constant hindrance"
- A technical description of Blackburn's naval seabirds. Includes Skua cutaway
- The Skua's hard-pressed squadrons undertook vital sorties early in the war
- The pilot's perspective; what were the Skua and Roc like to fly?
Our Navigator section at the back of the magazine tells you all you need to know about what to buy and where to go:
- Three Greens
- Book Reviews
- Internet Review
- Airshows & Events
- 2008 Calendars & High Society
- Registration Update
- Information Exchange
- Aeroplane services - back-issues, subscriptions, binders, newsagent order form, annual index and more
- Contacts and next month in Aeroplane
Protection by Deception - As part of our Hidden History series former Wellington aircrew member Dennis Cooke explains how, in August 1942, Air Vice-Marshal Keith Park helped to save a vital rehef convoy to Malta - by using false radio messages
Flying for a Song - Lewis Benjamin was part of a post-war effort by a group of enthusiasts to introduce a grass-roots flying club to the South Coast; he details the genesis, development and decline of Shoreham's Brookside Flying Club
Spitfire Women - For his superb new book, Spitfire Women of World War II. Giles Whittell spoke to more than a dozen survivors of the women's branch of the wartime Air Transport Auxiliary; he describes some of the exploits of this remarkable group of female pilots
Those Magnificent (French) Men - With the help of an old airshow programme,Johnny de Uphaugh takes us back in time to a gathering of flying pioneers in Nice in 1922
Mustang Show Report - The Gathering of Mustangs and Legends held at Columbus, Ohio, commemorated both man and machine. Aeroplane's Assistant Editor, Tony Harmsworth, was there and spoke to the veterans who flew the P-51 into history
Flying the Legend - The Tri-State Warbird Museum's President and Mustang pilot Paul Redlich guides us through flying America's most famous piston fighter. With photography by Xavier Meal
Regulars:
News - All the latest preservation news, compiled by Tony Harmsworth
Dogfight - Melvyn Hiscock and Aeroplane's Editor, Michael Oakey, debate whether World War One ace Werner Voss's natural skills as a pilot were instrumental in-almost-saving his life
From the Archives - Features Editor Nick Stroud delves into past issues of The Aeroplane. This month he goes back 50 years to December 1957
Aircrew - In Part Three of our new series on aircrew roles,James Kightly looks at that of an observer in a Supermarine Seagull V
Picture of the Month - From our archive of 70,000 glass-plate negatives ? the elegant Trident 1
Skywriters - A selection of readers' letters on a wide range of topics
Flying Visit - Melvyn Hiscock talks to former Gloster Chief Test Pilot Geoff Worrall
Crosswind - John Fricker provides sideways comment on the aviation world
Database: The Blackburn Suka & Roc:
- MATTHEW WILLIS tells the full story of Blackburn's two naval fighters, both often maligned as hopelessly outclassed and a disaster in combat - the Roc certainly was, but the Skua made a valuable wartime contribution
- The development of the Skua - includes scale drawings by Tim Hall
- A Skua with a turret? Why the Roc was considered "a constant hindrance"
- A technical description of Blackburn's naval seabirds. Includes Skua cutaway
- The Skua's hard-pressed squadrons undertook vital sorties early in the war
- The pilot's perspective; what were the Skua and Roc like to fly?
Our Navigator section at the back of the magazine tells you all you need to know about what to buy and where to go:
- Three Greens
- Book Reviews
- Internet Review
- Airshows & Events
- 2008 Calendars & High Society
- Registration Update
- Information Exchange
- Aeroplane services - back-issues, subscriptions, binders, newsagent order form, annual index and more
- Contacts and next month in Aeroplane
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