Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
OFMC OUTLOOK - Mark Hanna talks to Tony Harmsworth about past achievements and future plans for his lively warbird and jet company
RED LEADER RETURNS - To celebrate 50 years since his first solo, Mark's father Ray Hanna ? the Red Arrows' best-known former leader ? flies in an Arrows-painted Gnat for the first time since 1970, courtesy of Kennet Aviation
AIRSHOW SHAKEDOWN - Enthusiast jon Mynard enjoyed an unexpected flight and photo-shoot in another Kennet Gnat on airshow formation practice ? and retained his lunch
VINTAGE NEWS - All the latest preservation news, presented by Michael Oakey and Tony Harmsworth
MULTINATIONAL FIGHTER - Michael O'Lcary reports on a Japanese Mitsubishi Zero rebuilt in Russia to fly in the USA
WORKING WITH A GENIUS - Ever dreamed of a "one-to-one" with Sir Frank Whittle? His official biographer, )ohn Golley, remembers the father of the jet engine
MILITARY PERSONAL ALBUM - More rare archive colour photographs from Mike Hooks
THE SPIRIT OF SHA TIN - Harry Woodman looks back to 1911 and the first flight in Hong Kong ? and at last year's re-enactment at the former British colony's new Chck Lap Kok airport
HIGH COUNTRY, LOW TURNOUT - Few spectators attended the High Country Warbirds Air Display in Arizona in June; we missed a real treat, reports Frank B. Mormillo
THE ACES - Ken Aitken caricatures World War One ace Keith Park, later to head 11 Group in the Battle of Britain
PERFECTING THE POWER - Barry Jones examines a selection of Bristol gas-turbine engine testbed aircraft
QUESTIONS IN THE AIR - More readers' questions and answers, compiled by Mike Hooks
MICHIGAN MENAGERIE - Ron Werneth marvels at some exotic beasts in the Kalamazoo Air Zoo
READER OFFER - An exclusive chance to book discounted VIP tickets for Duxford's RAF 80th Anniversary Air Show on September 6
ARMCHAIR AVIATION - reviews of new books and videos
A DIFFERENT WORLD - Ann Welch leafs through a personal record of inter-war aviation in her 1933 RAeS Pocket Diary
RAF REFLECTIONS - Photographs from Roy Nesbit's new book RAF: An Illustrated History from 1918
AIRSHOWS AND EVENTS - Forthcoming aviation happenings in the UK and overseas
PASS THE PORT AND LAUNCH THE STRINGBAG - Cdr Phil Shaw recounts the very last time a Fairey Swordfish took off from an aircraft carrier
STOOFS AND SHAGBATS - Mike Gaines takes an irreverent look at aircraft nicknames
SKYWRITERS - Readers' letters
CROSSWIND - John Maynard's comment column
FRONT COVER: MICHAEL O'LEARY photographed Alan Preston piloting the Santa Monica Museum of Flying's Mitsubishi A6M Zero N6582L over Chino, California, in May this year, a few weeks after its first post-restoration flight. See pages 12-15 for the full story of a remarkable rebuild
RED LEADER RETURNS - To celebrate 50 years since his first solo, Mark's father Ray Hanna ? the Red Arrows' best-known former leader ? flies in an Arrows-painted Gnat for the first time since 1970, courtesy of Kennet Aviation
AIRSHOW SHAKEDOWN - Enthusiast jon Mynard enjoyed an unexpected flight and photo-shoot in another Kennet Gnat on airshow formation practice ? and retained his lunch
VINTAGE NEWS - All the latest preservation news, presented by Michael Oakey and Tony Harmsworth
MULTINATIONAL FIGHTER - Michael O'Lcary reports on a Japanese Mitsubishi Zero rebuilt in Russia to fly in the USA
WORKING WITH A GENIUS - Ever dreamed of a "one-to-one" with Sir Frank Whittle? His official biographer, )ohn Golley, remembers the father of the jet engine
MILITARY PERSONAL ALBUM - More rare archive colour photographs from Mike Hooks
THE SPIRIT OF SHA TIN - Harry Woodman looks back to 1911 and the first flight in Hong Kong ? and at last year's re-enactment at the former British colony's new Chck Lap Kok airport
HIGH COUNTRY, LOW TURNOUT - Few spectators attended the High Country Warbirds Air Display in Arizona in June; we missed a real treat, reports Frank B. Mormillo
THE ACES - Ken Aitken caricatures World War One ace Keith Park, later to head 11 Group in the Battle of Britain
PERFECTING THE POWER - Barry Jones examines a selection of Bristol gas-turbine engine testbed aircraft
QUESTIONS IN THE AIR - More readers' questions and answers, compiled by Mike Hooks
MICHIGAN MENAGERIE - Ron Werneth marvels at some exotic beasts in the Kalamazoo Air Zoo
READER OFFER - An exclusive chance to book discounted VIP tickets for Duxford's RAF 80th Anniversary Air Show on September 6
ARMCHAIR AVIATION - reviews of new books and videos
A DIFFERENT WORLD - Ann Welch leafs through a personal record of inter-war aviation in her 1933 RAeS Pocket Diary
RAF REFLECTIONS - Photographs from Roy Nesbit's new book RAF: An Illustrated History from 1918
AIRSHOWS AND EVENTS - Forthcoming aviation happenings in the UK and overseas
PASS THE PORT AND LAUNCH THE STRINGBAG - Cdr Phil Shaw recounts the very last time a Fairey Swordfish took off from an aircraft carrier
STOOFS AND SHAGBATS - Mike Gaines takes an irreverent look at aircraft nicknames
SKYWRITERS - Readers' letters
CROSSWIND - John Maynard's comment column
FRONT COVER: MICHAEL O'LEARY photographed Alan Preston piloting the Santa Monica Museum of Flying's Mitsubishi A6M Zero N6582L over Chino, California, in May this year, a few weeks after its first post-restoration flight. See pages 12-15 for the full story of a remarkable rebuild
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