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MBRAER'S TRACTABLE TUCANO - John Fricker flies, for AIR international, the latest product of Brazil's dynamic aircraft industry, the T-27 Tucano high-performance turboprop trainer. TIENTSIN TIME CAPSULE - A first-hand account, by Major Lennart Berns (of the Royal Swedish Air Force), of a visit to a Chinese air base, where modernisation, it would appear, has been marking time. 22 MOSOUITO a€ DH'S BEAUTIFUL BOMBER - Developed in the face of much official apathy if not outright resistance, the deadly Mosquito was among the most elegant of World War ll's combat aircraft. The bomber variants are described in this ""Warbirds"" feature. A VERY DIFFERENT CORSAIR - Among the more noteworthy of the aeroplanes competing in the 1982 Reno National Championship Air Races was a newly restored and modified Chance Vought F4U-1 Corsair, here described and illustrated by Frank B Mormillo. AIRSCENE - The monthly round-up of news and background to the news presented under section headings for Military Affairs, Aircraft and Industry, Civil Affairs and new Civil and Military Aircraft Contracts. SIGHT FOR BLIND MEN - The first in a series of articles in which Mike Hirst, BTech, MRAeS, sets out to analyse the role of avionics in contemporary aviation. MODEL ENTHUSIAST - Modelling comments, the latest kits reviewed and two pages of colour profiles on the Supermarine Spitfire VIII-XI. TALKBACK - Readers of AIR INTERNATIONAL offer comments of general interest. FIGHTER A TO Z - Continuing the AIR INTERNATIONAL encyclopaedia of the world's fighter aircraft, from the I.A.R.I 4 to the I.A.R.93. IN PRINT - New aviation literature noted. AIR DATA FILE - Technical data, photographs and general arrangement drawings for the Australian Basic Trainer, HAL Ajeet Trainer, PZL-21 Mini Dromader, Slingsby Firefly 160M and SOKO Super Galeb. FRONT COVER - The first production example of the EMBRAER EM B-312 Tucano, now on the point of entering service in Brazil.
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