Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Grapevine - Philip Jarrett's review of the aircraft preservation world
Percival Aircraft 1933-1954 - The first part of S. John Silvester's account of the Percival Aircraft Company's designs
A testing time - Part 2 - Don Robertson concludes his account of wartime testing at the Aeroplane & Armament Establish- ment at Boscombe Down with recollections of flights that were prematurely curtailed
Churchill's egg - During the war a special pressurised compartment was built for installation in Winston Churchill's personal aircraft. Ray Williams describes this piece of Avro-built equipment
Duck on the wing again - Grumman J2F-6 Duck N1196N is airworthy again
The classic aero engines - No 5 - The Pratt & Whitney Wasp - Bill Gunston tells the story of one of America's most important piston engines
Skywriters
Disaster Royal - In August 1940 HRH the Duke of Kent was killed in a Short Sunderland on a flight from Scotland to Iceland. Chris Crowther traces the events leading up to the accident
Taking the Lightning to Mach 2 - Ex BAC chief test pilot Roland Beamont recalls how he flew the Lightning at twice the speed of sound
Personal Album - Ex RFC pilot Sqn Ldr A. H. Curtis supplies this month's snaps
Preservation Profile - Bristol Freighter G-BISU, still in service; is this month's subject
Euro Wing's Goldwing - This microlight aircraft offers 3-axis control and should appeal to experienced pilots as well as newcomers
Competition - Your chance to win some great Red Arrows clothing
Les Cometes - When two D.H.88 Comets were sold to the French Government in 1935 they were initially tested by test pilots at Villacoublay. Paul Badre was one of them and he recalls here his experiences with the
Comets - Those magnificent mags - Part 1 - In the first of a three-part article covering early aviation magazines, F. H. Winstanley covers pre-war British publications
A. J. Jackson - a tribute
Percival Aircraft 1933-1954 - The first part of S. John Silvester's account of the Percival Aircraft Company's designs
A testing time - Part 2 - Don Robertson concludes his account of wartime testing at the Aeroplane & Armament Establish- ment at Boscombe Down with recollections of flights that were prematurely curtailed
Churchill's egg - During the war a special pressurised compartment was built for installation in Winston Churchill's personal aircraft. Ray Williams describes this piece of Avro-built equipment
Duck on the wing again - Grumman J2F-6 Duck N1196N is airworthy again
The classic aero engines - No 5 - The Pratt & Whitney Wasp - Bill Gunston tells the story of one of America's most important piston engines
Skywriters
Disaster Royal - In August 1940 HRH the Duke of Kent was killed in a Short Sunderland on a flight from Scotland to Iceland. Chris Crowther traces the events leading up to the accident
Taking the Lightning to Mach 2 - Ex BAC chief test pilot Roland Beamont recalls how he flew the Lightning at twice the speed of sound
Personal Album - Ex RFC pilot Sqn Ldr A. H. Curtis supplies this month's snaps
Preservation Profile - Bristol Freighter G-BISU, still in service; is this month's subject
Euro Wing's Goldwing - This microlight aircraft offers 3-axis control and should appeal to experienced pilots as well as newcomers
Competition - Your chance to win some great Red Arrows clothing
Les Cometes - When two D.H.88 Comets were sold to the French Government in 1935 they were initially tested by test pilots at Villacoublay. Paul Badre was one of them and he recalls here his experiences with the
Comets - Those magnificent mags - Part 1 - In the first of a three-part article covering early aviation magazines, F. H. Winstanley covers pre-war British publications
A. J. Jackson - a tribute
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