Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
REGULARS:
NEWS - All the latest news from the UK and abroad - including a warning from the CAA on display-flying safety in the wake of June's spate of accidents
LOST & FOUND - Philip Jarrett asks - who was that lady sitting in the Handley Page Bluebird?
SKYWRITERS
FLYING VISIT - A potted interview with Vietnam veteran and round-the-world pilot Dick Rutan, by Melvyn Hiscock
HIGH SOCIETY - New York-based World War One Aeroplanes Inc is this month's subject
LOOKING BACK - Nick Stroud browses The Aeroplane of September 1951
CROSSWIND - Sideways comment on the aviation world from John Maynard
FEATURES:
FIGHTERS IN TRANSITION - In the third and final part of his series marking the 50th anniversary ot the conflict, Robert F. Dorr examines jey-versus-jet combat in the Korean War
PACIFIC ADVENTURE - Ron Werneth reports on a recent expedition to the jungles of the Solomon Islands in search of wartime relics
INTER-WAR ONE-OFFS - Rare photographs of lesser-known British inter-war light aeroplanes, from the files of Philip Jarrett
A CASUALTY OF WAR AND FATE - Ian Davies re-examines the accident that killed The Aeroplane's F.D. Rradbrooke on the Isle of Arran sixty years ago, when a Consolidated Liberator crashed on a mountain peak
FROM RAINMAKER TO WARBIRD - Micheal O'Leary recounts how a gaggle of Curtis P-40s, used after the war as cloud-seeders, have been restored to pristine original conduition and given a new lease of life
MOSQUITO UPDATE No 3 - Jack Meadows presents the latest of his regular reports from Vancouver, Canada, on the restoration to airworthiness of de Havilland Mosquito B.35 VR796
DATABASE - VICKERS WELLINGTON:
TYPE HISTORY - Alec Lumsden recounts the conception and development of the great "Wimpy"
TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION and cutaway drawing
WELLINGTONS IN SERVICE - Alec Lumsden on the RAF's use of the Wimpy
WIMPY MINESWEEPERS - The extraordinary 48ft-ring-equipped DWI Wellington is described by Alec Lumsden
WIMPY MARK BY MARK - Alec Lumsden summarises the type's variants
RECREATING A WIMPY - Pavel Kucera on the 1960s Czech film replica
FLYING THE WELLINGTON - A pilot's perspective by James L. Couper
RAISED FROM THE DEEP - Nick Stroud recounts the preservation of "The Lock Ness Wellington"
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NEWS - All the latest news from the UK and abroad - including a warning from the CAA on display-flying safety in the wake of June's spate of accidents
LOST & FOUND - Philip Jarrett asks - who was that lady sitting in the Handley Page Bluebird?
SKYWRITERS
FLYING VISIT - A potted interview with Vietnam veteran and round-the-world pilot Dick Rutan, by Melvyn Hiscock
HIGH SOCIETY - New York-based World War One Aeroplanes Inc is this month's subject
LOOKING BACK - Nick Stroud browses The Aeroplane of September 1951
CROSSWIND - Sideways comment on the aviation world from John Maynard
FEATURES:
FIGHTERS IN TRANSITION - In the third and final part of his series marking the 50th anniversary ot the conflict, Robert F. Dorr examines jey-versus-jet combat in the Korean War
PACIFIC ADVENTURE - Ron Werneth reports on a recent expedition to the jungles of the Solomon Islands in search of wartime relics
INTER-WAR ONE-OFFS - Rare photographs of lesser-known British inter-war light aeroplanes, from the files of Philip Jarrett
A CASUALTY OF WAR AND FATE - Ian Davies re-examines the accident that killed The Aeroplane's F.D. Rradbrooke on the Isle of Arran sixty years ago, when a Consolidated Liberator crashed on a mountain peak
FROM RAINMAKER TO WARBIRD - Micheal O'Leary recounts how a gaggle of Curtis P-40s, used after the war as cloud-seeders, have been restored to pristine original conduition and given a new lease of life
MOSQUITO UPDATE No 3 - Jack Meadows presents the latest of his regular reports from Vancouver, Canada, on the restoration to airworthiness of de Havilland Mosquito B.35 VR796
DATABASE - VICKERS WELLINGTON:
TYPE HISTORY - Alec Lumsden recounts the conception and development of the great "Wimpy"
TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION and cutaway drawing
WELLINGTONS IN SERVICE - Alec Lumsden on the RAF's use of the Wimpy
WIMPY MINESWEEPERS - The extraordinary 48ft-ring-equipped DWI Wellington is described by Alec Lumsden
WIMPY MARK BY MARK - Alec Lumsden summarises the type's variants
RECREATING A WIMPY - Pavel Kucera on the 1960s Czech film replica
FLYING THE WELLINGTON - A pilot's perspective by James L. Couper
RAISED FROM THE DEEP - Nick Stroud recounts the preservation of "The Lock Ness Wellington"
NAVIGATOR: Just when you think it's all over - 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 reviews
Internet review
Special Offers
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irshows and events
Next month Aeroplane Monthly
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