Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
REGULARS:
NEWS - All the latest preservation news, presented by Tony Harmsworth
LOST AND FOUND - Philip Jarrett seeks help with a mystery Italian aircraft
CONTACT! - Paul Coggan comments on the Firefly crash
SKYWRITERS - Readers' letters on a wide variety of topics
FLYING VISIT - A potted interview with display pilot Dan Griffith, by Melvyn Hiscock
HIGH SOCIETY - The Shoreham Airport Historical Association
LOOKING BACK - Nick Stroud browses in The Aeroplane of 60 years ago ? October 1943
PICTURE OF THE MONTH - This month's photograph features an RAF Consolidated Catalina
CROSSWIND - John Maynard's regular comment column
FEATURES:
THE SPIRIT OF JAPAN - Nick Stroud interviews Major Hideo Muraoka of the WW2 Imperial Japanese Army Air Force
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE? - Melvyn Hiscock recounts how Sussex-based restorers Aero Vintage made it possible to rebuild Hawker aircraft of the Twenties and Thirties
THE BIG BANG - Roy Nesbit describes how a 1944 explosion at an RAF bomb dump wiped out an entire farm
QUEST FOR A BLENHEIM - Yolanda Volak-Latter and John Remain describe how they went to the mountain jungles of Kenya in search of a wartime bomber wreck
PERSONAL ALBUM - Inter-war photographs taken at Croydon Airport
PRESERVATION PIONEERS - Roger Smith and John Berkeley look back at the first 25 years of the Midland Aircraft Preservation Society and the Midland Air Museum
A CENTURY OF ... AIR RECORDS - A survey of 100 years of flying faster, higher and further, by Derek James
LONG IN THE TOOTH - A 60tSt anniversary assessment of the de Havilland Vampire, by Tim Skeet
PEACE AND WAR - Dopey Edwards DFC continues his first-hand recollections of his early RAF carreer in the years leading up to World War Two. This month: night-flying training
FAIREY GANNET:
TYPE HISTORY - Fairey specialist Bill Harrison recounts the genesis and development of the barrel-bodied sub-hunter PLUS scale drawings of the AS.L T.2 and AEW.3 by Tim Hall
PULL-OUT POSTER - A stunning portrait of T.5 XT752 by Michael O'Leary
THE GANNET GOES TO SEA - The Fleet Air Arm career of the portly seabird, including details of the squadrons with which it served
ANATOMY OF A SEABIRD - Bill Harrison describes the Gannet's construction PLUS cutaway illustration of the Gannet ASA
THE DOUBLE MAMBA - The history of Armstrong Siddeley's two-engines-in- one, described by Bill Harrison
GANNET PROJECTS - Several Gannei modifications were proposed ? most stayed on the drawing board
IN FOREIGN SERVICE - A complete list of all the nations who ordered or expressed an interest in the distinctive Gannet
PILOT'S PERSPECTIVE - FAA pilots describe what the type was like to fly
SURVIVORS - Bill Harrison traces the whereabouts of those still left
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 & video reviews
Internet review
Reader offers
Information exchange
Airshows, events & Discovery
Wings TV highlights
Next month in Aeroplane
Aeroplane services
NEWS - All the latest preservation news, presented by Tony Harmsworth
LOST AND FOUND - Philip Jarrett seeks help with a mystery Italian aircraft
CONTACT! - Paul Coggan comments on the Firefly crash
SKYWRITERS - Readers' letters on a wide variety of topics
FLYING VISIT - A potted interview with display pilot Dan Griffith, by Melvyn Hiscock
HIGH SOCIETY - The Shoreham Airport Historical Association
LOOKING BACK - Nick Stroud browses in The Aeroplane of 60 years ago ? October 1943
PICTURE OF THE MONTH - This month's photograph features an RAF Consolidated Catalina
CROSSWIND - John Maynard's regular comment column
FEATURES:
THE SPIRIT OF JAPAN - Nick Stroud interviews Major Hideo Muraoka of the WW2 Imperial Japanese Army Air Force
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE? - Melvyn Hiscock recounts how Sussex-based restorers Aero Vintage made it possible to rebuild Hawker aircraft of the Twenties and Thirties
THE BIG BANG - Roy Nesbit describes how a 1944 explosion at an RAF bomb dump wiped out an entire farm
QUEST FOR A BLENHEIM - Yolanda Volak-Latter and John Remain describe how they went to the mountain jungles of Kenya in search of a wartime bomber wreck
PERSONAL ALBUM - Inter-war photographs taken at Croydon Airport
PRESERVATION PIONEERS - Roger Smith and John Berkeley look back at the first 25 years of the Midland Aircraft Preservation Society and the Midland Air Museum
A CENTURY OF ... AIR RECORDS - A survey of 100 years of flying faster, higher and further, by Derek James
LONG IN THE TOOTH - A 60tSt anniversary assessment of the de Havilland Vampire, by Tim Skeet
PEACE AND WAR - Dopey Edwards DFC continues his first-hand recollections of his early RAF carreer in the years leading up to World War Two. This month: night-flying training
FAIREY GANNET:
TYPE HISTORY - Fairey specialist Bill Harrison recounts the genesis and development of the barrel-bodied sub-hunter PLUS scale drawings of the AS.L T.2 and AEW.3 by Tim Hall
PULL-OUT POSTER - A stunning portrait of T.5 XT752 by Michael O'Leary
THE GANNET GOES TO SEA - The Fleet Air Arm career of the portly seabird, including details of the squadrons with which it served
ANATOMY OF A SEABIRD - Bill Harrison describes the Gannet's construction PLUS cutaway illustration of the Gannet ASA
THE DOUBLE MAMBA - The history of Armstrong Siddeley's two-engines-in- one, described by Bill Harrison
GANNET PROJECTS - Several Gannei modifications were proposed ? most stayed on the drawing board
IN FOREIGN SERVICE - A complete list of all the nations who ordered or expressed an interest in the distinctive Gannet
PILOT'S PERSPECTIVE - FAA pilots describe what the type was like to fly
SURVIVORS - Bill Harrison traces the whereabouts of those still left
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 & video reviews
Internet review
Reader offers
Information exchange
Airshows, events & Discovery
Wings TV highlights
Next month in Aeroplane
Aeroplane services
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