Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Grapevine - Michael Oakey's monthly review of happenings in the aircraft preservation world
The Boomerang's return - Stephen Harding reports on a Commonwealth Boomerang replica and restoration project in California
Tempest Summer - Part 2 - Roland Beamont continues his recollections of leading the RAF's first Tempest V wing into action in 1944
Shuttleworth 'Sunday - The Shuttleworth Collection's first airshow of the season - its Spring Fete on May 3 - seen through the camera of David Muscroft
The demise Of WD933 - Former test observer Peter A. Taylor recalls an eventful flight in an experimental Canberra
Skywriters - Our regular letters page
Baynes: the unknown innovator - Part 5, in which William Morse describes the unorthodox swivelling-wing, twin-engined Baynes Bee of 1937
Personal album - Civil - A selection of pre-war British-registered types photographed in the Fifties by Ken Rutterford of Newbury, Berkshire
Memoirs of a Burma staff wallah - Part 2 - Another comic tale from Dopey Edwards concerning his time in Burma as 221 Group's Armament Staff Officer
Wing training in Southern Rhodesia - Part 1 - Flt Lt Mike Retallack MBE recalls what it was like to learn to fly in the RAF in the early Fifties, far away from the grey skies of England
By day and by night - Part 2, Philip jarrett concludes his development history of the D.H.9A - plus Frank Munger's specially commissioned cutaway drawing
First Of the jets - Brian Johnson recounts early German experiments carried out by Pabst von Ohain as a private venture for Heinkel, which resulted in the world's first jet flight
In at the deep end - Part 1 - lan Martin recalls his part in the siege of Habbaniya as an Audax air-gunner
Preservation profile An antipodean DHC.1 Chipmunk in the spotlight
Propellers - Part 1 - Don Middleton traces the history of the propeller from Archimedes to variable-pitch
Post-War propliners - No. 2 - John Stroud continues his new series with the portly French Breguet 763 Deux Fonts airliner
Brooklands: 85 years of record-making - Holly's light hearted reminder of some of Brooklands' greatest moments
Personal album - military - Photographs of a German World War One observation balloon unit, via Prof Joachim Olden of Berlin
Armchair aviation - More books and videos reviewed by Melvin Hiscock
Plane Crazy - The editor's regular backward glance at aviation's lighter and more unbelievable moments
Diversions - Chinon compact cameras and Blenheim videos are up for grabs on our regular competitions page this month
Front Cover - MICHAEL O'LEARY'S photograph of the recently-completed replica of a Commonwealth Aircraft Boomerang over California earlier this year - see pages 6-10. DAVID MUSCROFT'S centre-spread picture features Stearman " 42-17786" owned by David Backhaus and based at Old Buckenham airfield, Norfolk, in formation with Graham Carpenter's Swanton Morley-based Stearman "390" over Norfolk.
The Boomerang's return - Stephen Harding reports on a Commonwealth Boomerang replica and restoration project in California
Tempest Summer - Part 2 - Roland Beamont continues his recollections of leading the RAF's first Tempest V wing into action in 1944
Shuttleworth 'Sunday - The Shuttleworth Collection's first airshow of the season - its Spring Fete on May 3 - seen through the camera of David Muscroft
The demise Of WD933 - Former test observer Peter A. Taylor recalls an eventful flight in an experimental Canberra
Skywriters - Our regular letters page
Baynes: the unknown innovator - Part 5, in which William Morse describes the unorthodox swivelling-wing, twin-engined Baynes Bee of 1937
Personal album - Civil - A selection of pre-war British-registered types photographed in the Fifties by Ken Rutterford of Newbury, Berkshire
Memoirs of a Burma staff wallah - Part 2 - Another comic tale from Dopey Edwards concerning his time in Burma as 221 Group's Armament Staff Officer
Wing training in Southern Rhodesia - Part 1 - Flt Lt Mike Retallack MBE recalls what it was like to learn to fly in the RAF in the early Fifties, far away from the grey skies of England
By day and by night - Part 2, Philip jarrett concludes his development history of the D.H.9A - plus Frank Munger's specially commissioned cutaway drawing
First Of the jets - Brian Johnson recounts early German experiments carried out by Pabst von Ohain as a private venture for Heinkel, which resulted in the world's first jet flight
In at the deep end - Part 1 - lan Martin recalls his part in the siege of Habbaniya as an Audax air-gunner
Preservation profile An antipodean DHC.1 Chipmunk in the spotlight
Propellers - Part 1 - Don Middleton traces the history of the propeller from Archimedes to variable-pitch
Post-War propliners - No. 2 - John Stroud continues his new series with the portly French Breguet 763 Deux Fonts airliner
Brooklands: 85 years of record-making - Holly's light hearted reminder of some of Brooklands' greatest moments
Personal album - military - Photographs of a German World War One observation balloon unit, via Prof Joachim Olden of Berlin
Armchair aviation - More books and videos reviewed by Melvin Hiscock
Plane Crazy - The editor's regular backward glance at aviation's lighter and more unbelievable moments
Diversions - Chinon compact cameras and Blenheim videos are up for grabs on our regular competitions page this month
Front Cover - MICHAEL O'LEARY'S photograph of the recently-completed replica of a Commonwealth Aircraft Boomerang over California earlier this year - see pages 6-10. DAVID MUSCROFT'S centre-spread picture features Stearman " 42-17786" owned by David Backhaus and based at Old Buckenham airfield, Norfolk, in formation with Graham Carpenter's Swanton Morley-based Stearman "390" over Norfolk.
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