Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
eatures: Maintaining the Skills, and Learning Anew - Howard Heeley talks to a warbird restoration worker Ace Eindecker - Spectacular pictures of Javier Arango's Fokker E III, by Philip Makanna Flying the Sabre: What Mother Didn't Tell You - F-86 pilot Lt-Col George Berke concludes his two-part account of his experiences on the type The Ultimate Weekend Aircraft - Mike Vines examines a luxury version of the Antonov An-2 By Vega to the Poles - Michael O'Leary recounts the Lockheed Vega polar flights Personal Album - Bristol Freighters in colour VE-Day Special Section: Introduction - Setting the scene for our 60th anniversary commemorative coverage Fleeting Glory - Richard de Boer describes how a Mosquito victory tour went terribly wrong As if it Were Yesterday - Vibrant 1941 colour pictures by renowned war photographer Robert Capa Developing Power - Chris Starr traces Daimler-Benz's wartime efforts to increase the power of its DB600-series engines Aeroplane Explains - Bill Gunston describes how a variable-pitch propeller works, with illustrations by Ian Bott World War Two Survivors - In the first article of a major new series, Jack Meadows charts the wartime career of RCAF Halifax navigator Doug Thorn DFC Twilight of the Luftwaffe - Pilot Norbert Hannig recounts his attempts to add an Me 262 to his logbook in April 1945 Me 262 Project Update - Jim Larsen reports from Washington State, USA Looking Back - Nick Stroud browses in The Aeroplane of 60 years ago a€ May 1945 Database - The Fairey Swordfish: Bill Harrison describes the ""Stringbag"" in detail, with scale drawings by Tim Hall The Legacy of War - Bill Gunston on how wartime technical developments continue to affect our lives today Regulars: News - Compiled by Tony Harmsworth READER EVENT: Behind Closed Doors at Duxford - Come to our Reader Day Contact! - Paul Coggan's comment column Skywriters - Readers' letters Flying Visit - Melvyn Hiscock interviews the BBMF's Sqn Ldr Stuart Reid Picture of the Month - A Supermarine Stranraer High Society - The 77 Sqn RAF Association Crosswind - Sideways comment
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