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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
NEWS:
BA launches OpenSkies - British Airways steps into the brave new world of the Open Skies arrangements with a brave new trans-Atlantic carrier
Military - BA 777 crash at Heathrow - Record year of orders for Airbus and Boeing - Delta in merger talks - Orders, airports, routes and aircraft
PLUS! A special report on the roll-out of the ARJ 21, the Chinese airliner with high hopes of major success
Military - USAF returns some F-15s to flight ? First Tranche 2 Typhoon airborne ? New missile test-fired from QF-4 ? and all the international military aviation headlines
Preservation - Funding boost for CAF's B-29 ? Yak-30 flies in Russia ? Lufthansa Starliner to be ready in 2010 ? and other major aircraft preservation stories from around the world
FEATURES:
Dreamliner delayed - BEN DUNNELL - Boeing's bosses have had to deliver more bad news about the 787 programme. What's the way forward for the troubled Dreamliner?
Eyes of Japan - RICHARD COOPER - The Japanese Air Self Defence Force's RF-4E Phantom IIs and their unique range of recce roles ? PLUS! Air-to-air photography by Katsuhiko Tokunaga
New York, Newark - GEOFF JONES - An airport so good they (almost) named it twice. We report from Continental's hub in New Jersey
Stealth succession - LAWRENCE SPINETTA - The USAF prepares to make the transition from one stealth aircraft to another, as the F-117 gives way to the F-22 ? PLUS! Air-to-air photography by Andy Wolfe
ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL - A bumper section to mark the 40th anniversary of Aircraft Illustrated, with special features and archive material
40 years of? Reporting - PETER R. MARCH - Our longest-serving contributor, the only person to have had something published in every issue, looks back at four decades of reporting for this magazine
The ages of Concorde - Exclusive artwork centrespread
40 years of? Civil - BRUCE HALES-DUTTON - 'Heated debates about airport expansion, the appearance of the world's largest airliner and calls for more fuel-efficient engines. Yes, it's 1968?'
40 years of? Military - JON LAKE - 'The four decades since 1968 have been a time of small, unspectacular incremental progress, rather than of dramatic step changes in performance or capability'
40 years of? Preservation - BEN DUNNELL - 'In 2008, it is perhaps difficult to appreciate the extent to which the aircraft preservation scene was still in its relative infancy 40 years ago'
40 years of? Airshows - JOHN DUNNELL - 'Whilst nostalgia is a wonderful thing, today's shows are more than capable of matching the standards set by their predecessors'
40 years of? Aviation - 40 moments from 40 years of aviation history, as covered by Aircraft Illustrated
40 Greatest Aircraft - A look back at part of AI's countdown of the greatest aircraft of all time
And finally - The lighter side of AI's 40 years
A GUIDE - Turn to page 101 for your 'all you need to know' guide to all things aviation!
Computer - Condor gliding sim ? AlphaSim EA-6B ? Web site recommendations
Books - Featured book ? Britain's Greatest Aircraft ? and reviews of other new aviation titles
Airshow Calendar - Fully updated show dates for 2008 ? in the UK, North America, Europe and the rest of the world
BA launches OpenSkies - British Airways steps into the brave new world of the Open Skies arrangements with a brave new trans-Atlantic carrier
Military - BA 777 crash at Heathrow - Record year of orders for Airbus and Boeing - Delta in merger talks - Orders, airports, routes and aircraft
PLUS! A special report on the roll-out of the ARJ 21, the Chinese airliner with high hopes of major success
Military - USAF returns some F-15s to flight ? First Tranche 2 Typhoon airborne ? New missile test-fired from QF-4 ? and all the international military aviation headlines
Preservation - Funding boost for CAF's B-29 ? Yak-30 flies in Russia ? Lufthansa Starliner to be ready in 2010 ? and other major aircraft preservation stories from around the world
FEATURES:
Dreamliner delayed - BEN DUNNELL - Boeing's bosses have had to deliver more bad news about the 787 programme. What's the way forward for the troubled Dreamliner?
Eyes of Japan - RICHARD COOPER - The Japanese Air Self Defence Force's RF-4E Phantom IIs and their unique range of recce roles ? PLUS! Air-to-air photography by Katsuhiko Tokunaga
New York, Newark - GEOFF JONES - An airport so good they (almost) named it twice. We report from Continental's hub in New Jersey
Stealth succession - LAWRENCE SPINETTA - The USAF prepares to make the transition from one stealth aircraft to another, as the F-117 gives way to the F-22 ? PLUS! Air-to-air photography by Andy Wolfe
ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL - A bumper section to mark the 40th anniversary of Aircraft Illustrated, with special features and archive material
40 years of? Reporting - PETER R. MARCH - Our longest-serving contributor, the only person to have had something published in every issue, looks back at four decades of reporting for this magazine
The ages of Concorde - Exclusive artwork centrespread
40 years of? Civil - BRUCE HALES-DUTTON - 'Heated debates about airport expansion, the appearance of the world's largest airliner and calls for more fuel-efficient engines. Yes, it's 1968?'
40 years of? Military - JON LAKE - 'The four decades since 1968 have been a time of small, unspectacular incremental progress, rather than of dramatic step changes in performance or capability'
40 years of? Preservation - BEN DUNNELL - 'In 2008, it is perhaps difficult to appreciate the extent to which the aircraft preservation scene was still in its relative infancy 40 years ago'
40 years of? Airshows - JOHN DUNNELL - 'Whilst nostalgia is a wonderful thing, today's shows are more than capable of matching the standards set by their predecessors'
40 years of? Aviation - 40 moments from 40 years of aviation history, as covered by Aircraft Illustrated
40 Greatest Aircraft - A look back at part of AI's countdown of the greatest aircraft of all time
And finally - The lighter side of AI's 40 years
A GUIDE - Turn to page 101 for your 'all you need to know' guide to all things aviation!
Computer - Condor gliding sim ? AlphaSim EA-6B ? Web site recommendations
Books - Featured book ? Britain's Greatest Aircraft ? and reviews of other new aviation titles
Airshow Calendar - Fully updated show dates for 2008 ? in the UK, North America, Europe and the rest of the world
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