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THE FUTURE OF THE PAST - Looking forward: Tony Harmsworth reports on the prospects for aircraft preservation in the 21st Century MILLENNIUM MOMENTS - Looking back: aviation names and Aeroplane readers I choose their most memorable events of the 20th Century A PICTURE OF '99 - The winners of our photographic contest to capture a special image in the last year of the century A REVIVAL FOR THE "FACTORY"? Barry Cooper reports on Richard Noble's new plan to build aeroplanes again at Farnborough LANDMARKS IN THE SKY - Phillip Jarret presents a photographic survey of the 'Aviation Century' WYCOMBE WARRIORS - First air-to-air and detail pictures of the C-47 which recently flew from the USA to join Spitfire Mk IA AR213 for film and airshow work at Wycombe Air Park 46 COMMAND PERFORMANCE - Test pilot Roland Beamont presents an extract from his forthcoming autobiography: the vivid first-hand story of a 1953 Canberra demonstration flight in Venezuela which did not go exactly to plan REQUIEM FOR THE ROTODYNE - Patrick McDonnell recounts how hope turned to despair over Fairey's conveniplane airliner in the Fifties HISTORIC COLOUR - A new series of rare pre-war colour pictures begins with the Westland Lysander GETTING TO KNOW LIZZIE - Shuttleworth chief pilot Andy Sephton on flying the UK's only airworthy Lysander TOKYO EXPRESS - A pre-war goodwill flight from Japan to the UK, flown by an airaah called Kamikaze? Terry Gwynn-Jones explains BEN GUNN - An obituary of the former Boulton Paul chief test pilot who died on September 22 THE SETTING OF THE SUN - David Taylor recalls his stint out East as an RAF fitter during the last days of the RAF's Sunderland flying-boats PRESERVATION PROFILE - Lufthansa's Arado Ar 79B D-EMVT gets the This Is Your Life treatment FLYING WITNESS - Glenn Sands tracks down an aerial eyewiotness of the Slapton Sands disaster in Devon in 1944, in which nearly 1,000 American servicemen died when an invasion excercise went badly wrong A MILLIOM MILES FLOWN - John Stroud' autobiographical browse through his personal photographic albumn reaches the late 1950s in the Western Pacific OLD DUTCH - Air-to-air colour pictures and history of the world's only flying Fokker C.IV by Giles Auliard ON PAROLE - A ghost story for the festive season, by Hugh O'Neill READER QUESTIONNAIRE - What are your favourite bits of Aeroplane? Let us know and you could win a cash prize
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