Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Grapevine - Michael Oakey's monthly review of happenings in the aircraft preservation world
Testing the earty American Jets ? Part 2 - In 1948. English Electric's chief test pilot - Roland Beamont went to the USA to fly and evaluate first-generation American military lets. In Part Two of his recollections of the visit, written with the aid of his original test reports, he describes the North American XB-45 Tornado bomber
Per mare probare - In Part Seven of their series on aeroplanes tested by the Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment at Felixstowe in Suffolk, Alec Lumsden and Terry Heffernan dust off the reports on the Supermanne Scapa flying boat, originally known as the Southampton IV
Personal album - This month's pictures come from Stan Webb of Godalming, Surrey, who spent much of the Thirties and Forties working at Hanworth Aerodrome
The art of aviation - Aeroplane goes fo Hendon for a browse through the RAF Museum's vast art collection of more than 8,000 items
Skywriters
Spitfires over the Strip - During the Arab-Israel War of Independence of 1948-49, ex-World War Two FtAF pilot Gordon Levett flew Spitfires with the Israeli Air Force. In this two-part article he recalls his contribution to this strange conflict, in which Spitfires fought against Spitfires and then landed back at base to park alongside Messerschmitts and Mustangs
The thunderstorm that was Hess - In the wake of Rudolf Hess's death on August 17. former wartime WAAF Filter Room teller Felicity Ashbee recalls the tracking of the German Deputy Fuhrer's Messerschmitt Bf 110 across the North Sea and Northern Britain on its fateful flight of May 10, 1941
The yellow helicopters - Last winter ex-Bristol Beaufort navigator Roy Nesbit visited 22 Squadron, one of only two former Beaufort squadrons still in existence in the RAF. and sampled its present-day activities
Forties favourites?No 6 - In the last of the current series of features selected from our archives we examine the Hawker Typhoon IB. This article first appeared in The Aeroplane of February 11, 1944
Preservation profile - An Australian-registered Ryan PT-22 is this month's subject
Wings of peace - John Stroud's series on between-the-wars European airliners continues with the mindboggling German Dormer Do X 12-engined flying-boat
Rapide to the Isles "... This was fun. this was flying ..." - Hugh Scanlan recalls BEA's de Havilland Dragon Rapide service from. Land's End to the Scilly Isles in the Fifties and Sixties, and describes a re-enactment he made exactly 10yr ago
Front Cover - This month's front cover photograph, taken by NEVILLE PARNELL. features Australian Nigel Arnott's ex-USAAF Ryan PT-22 VH-NEA. subject of this month's Preservation profile feature. FRANK B: MORMILLO'S centre-spread depicts the Air Museum's "Planes of Fame" Fairchild PT-19 Come// trainer being flown by Gordon Sloan. The museum's Cornell is actually a PT-26, with the enclosed cockpit replaced by the open cockpits of the otherwise identical PT-19.
Testing the earty American Jets ? Part 2 - In 1948. English Electric's chief test pilot - Roland Beamont went to the USA to fly and evaluate first-generation American military lets. In Part Two of his recollections of the visit, written with the aid of his original test reports, he describes the North American XB-45 Tornado bomber
Per mare probare - In Part Seven of their series on aeroplanes tested by the Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment at Felixstowe in Suffolk, Alec Lumsden and Terry Heffernan dust off the reports on the Supermanne Scapa flying boat, originally known as the Southampton IV
Personal album - This month's pictures come from Stan Webb of Godalming, Surrey, who spent much of the Thirties and Forties working at Hanworth Aerodrome
The art of aviation - Aeroplane goes fo Hendon for a browse through the RAF Museum's vast art collection of more than 8,000 items
Skywriters
Spitfires over the Strip - During the Arab-Israel War of Independence of 1948-49, ex-World War Two FtAF pilot Gordon Levett flew Spitfires with the Israeli Air Force. In this two-part article he recalls his contribution to this strange conflict, in which Spitfires fought against Spitfires and then landed back at base to park alongside Messerschmitts and Mustangs
The thunderstorm that was Hess - In the wake of Rudolf Hess's death on August 17. former wartime WAAF Filter Room teller Felicity Ashbee recalls the tracking of the German Deputy Fuhrer's Messerschmitt Bf 110 across the North Sea and Northern Britain on its fateful flight of May 10, 1941
The yellow helicopters - Last winter ex-Bristol Beaufort navigator Roy Nesbit visited 22 Squadron, one of only two former Beaufort squadrons still in existence in the RAF. and sampled its present-day activities
Forties favourites?No 6 - In the last of the current series of features selected from our archives we examine the Hawker Typhoon IB. This article first appeared in The Aeroplane of February 11, 1944
Preservation profile - An Australian-registered Ryan PT-22 is this month's subject
Wings of peace - John Stroud's series on between-the-wars European airliners continues with the mindboggling German Dormer Do X 12-engined flying-boat
Rapide to the Isles "... This was fun. this was flying ..." - Hugh Scanlan recalls BEA's de Havilland Dragon Rapide service from. Land's End to the Scilly Isles in the Fifties and Sixties, and describes a re-enactment he made exactly 10yr ago
Front Cover - This month's front cover photograph, taken by NEVILLE PARNELL. features Australian Nigel Arnott's ex-USAAF Ryan PT-22 VH-NEA. subject of this month's Preservation profile feature. FRANK B: MORMILLO'S centre-spread depicts the Air Museum's "Planes of Fame" Fairchild PT-19 Come// trainer being flown by Gordon Sloan. The museum's Cornell is actually a PT-26, with the enclosed cockpit replaced by the open cockpits of the otherwise identical PT-19.
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