Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
FEATURES:
SETTING A NEW STANDARD - A news feature by Nick Stroud about the EAA's newly-restored "big barnstormer" D-25
IN AT THE DEEP END - Doug Taylor describes the workload of a World War two RAF Lancaster navigator during a typical bombing raid
AN EYE FOR DETAIL - Our series featuring fine close-up photographs of preserved aircraft continues with the North American XB-70 Valkyrie
HERONS TO HAWAII - Mike Spence recalls a 14,500-mile ferry flight in a de Havilland Heron in the Sixties
AEROPLANE EXPLAINS - Why turning back to the airfield after engine-failure on take-off was always seen as a bad idea
CANADA ON CAMERA - A picture-report on the Aeroplane Trans-Canada Reader Tour
BIRD OF PREY - Michael O'Leary presents a report and air-to-air photographs of The Fighter Collection's newly-restored Curtiss Hawk 75
HITLER'S GUIDED WEAPONS - Dr Alfred Price describes the Luftwaffe's anti-shipping and anti-aircraft missiles
THE FINAL LETDOWN - John Fricker concludes his two-part history of the bizarre inflatable-wing ML Utility
HEROES RETURN - Ken Delve explains the funding scheme which is helping. WW2 veterans visit their old haunts inside back cover
READER HOLIDAY - join us on a grand tour of New Zealand, visiting 11 museums and collections, and Omaka's Classic Fighters Airshow
REGULARS:
NEWS - All the latest preservation news, presented by Tony Harmsworth ? including a Hawker Hurricane recovered from a Russian lake
CONTACT - Paul Coggan comments on the preservation scene, including some novel project-recording and fundraising ideas
SKYWRITERS - Readers' letters on a wide variety of topics, plus an introduction to our new Crosswind columnist
FLYING VISIT - A potted interview with Air Vice-Marshal Barry Newton, Honorary Inspector-General of the RAuxAF, by Melvyn Hiscock
PICTURE OF THE MONTH - This month's Aeroplane archive photograph special offer features an Avro 624 trimotor
LOOKING BACK - Nick Stroud browses in The Aeroplane of 90 years ago ? January 1915
HIGH SOCIETY - The newly-established Goodwood Aero Club is under the spotlight this month
CROSSWIND - A first helping of sideways comment on the aviation world, from our new columnist John Fricker
Database:
THE GLOSTER GLADIATOR - Gloster historian Derek James relates the full story of the RAF's last biplane fighter, which despite being outdated and outclassed by the sleek German fighters against which it flew, went on to provide a vital wartime stopgap in Britain's defences. Includes scale drawings and cutaway
Navigator:
Our Navigator section at the back of the magazine tells you all you need to know about what to buy and where to go:
- Book reviews plus flight-simulator software review
- Internet review ? this month: websites where you can find a variety of aviation-inspired Christmas presents
- Reader offers ? Booklight, Mew Gull flying scale model kit and airband receiver
- Information Exchange
- Next month in Aeroplane
- Aeroplane services - back-issues, binders, subscriptions, newsagent order form, annual index and more
- Airshows and events for December and January, both in the UK and overseas
- Auction round-up, including a Dambusters dinner menu
SETTING A NEW STANDARD - A news feature by Nick Stroud about the EAA's newly-restored "big barnstormer" D-25
IN AT THE DEEP END - Doug Taylor describes the workload of a World War two RAF Lancaster navigator during a typical bombing raid
AN EYE FOR DETAIL - Our series featuring fine close-up photographs of preserved aircraft continues with the North American XB-70 Valkyrie
HERONS TO HAWAII - Mike Spence recalls a 14,500-mile ferry flight in a de Havilland Heron in the Sixties
AEROPLANE EXPLAINS - Why turning back to the airfield after engine-failure on take-off was always seen as a bad idea
CANADA ON CAMERA - A picture-report on the Aeroplane Trans-Canada Reader Tour
BIRD OF PREY - Michael O'Leary presents a report and air-to-air photographs of The Fighter Collection's newly-restored Curtiss Hawk 75
HITLER'S GUIDED WEAPONS - Dr Alfred Price describes the Luftwaffe's anti-shipping and anti-aircraft missiles
THE FINAL LETDOWN - John Fricker concludes his two-part history of the bizarre inflatable-wing ML Utility
HEROES RETURN - Ken Delve explains the funding scheme which is helping. WW2 veterans visit their old haunts inside back cover
READER HOLIDAY - join us on a grand tour of New Zealand, visiting 11 museums and collections, and Omaka's Classic Fighters Airshow
REGULARS:
NEWS - All the latest preservation news, presented by Tony Harmsworth ? including a Hawker Hurricane recovered from a Russian lake
CONTACT - Paul Coggan comments on the preservation scene, including some novel project-recording and fundraising ideas
SKYWRITERS - Readers' letters on a wide variety of topics, plus an introduction to our new Crosswind columnist
FLYING VISIT - A potted interview with Air Vice-Marshal Barry Newton, Honorary Inspector-General of the RAuxAF, by Melvyn Hiscock
PICTURE OF THE MONTH - This month's Aeroplane archive photograph special offer features an Avro 624 trimotor
LOOKING BACK - Nick Stroud browses in The Aeroplane of 90 years ago ? January 1915
HIGH SOCIETY - The newly-established Goodwood Aero Club is under the spotlight this month
CROSSWIND - A first helping of sideways comment on the aviation world, from our new columnist John Fricker
Database:
THE GLOSTER GLADIATOR - Gloster historian Derek James relates the full story of the RAF's last biplane fighter, which despite being outdated and outclassed by the sleek German fighters against which it flew, went on to provide a vital wartime stopgap in Britain's defences. Includes scale drawings and cutaway
Navigator:
Our Navigator section at the back of the magazine tells you all you need to know about what to buy and where to go:
- Book reviews plus flight-simulator software review
- Internet review ? this month: websites where you can find a variety of aviation-inspired Christmas presents
- Reader offers ? Booklight, Mew Gull flying scale model kit and airband receiver
- Information Exchange
- Next month in Aeroplane
- Aeroplane services - back-issues, binders, subscriptions, newsagent order form, annual index and more
- Airshows and events for December and January, both in the UK and overseas
- Auction round-up, including a Dambusters dinner menu
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