Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Grapevine - Philip Jarrett's review of the aircraft preservation world
Convair's experimental four-jet bomber - Bill Gunston describes another first generation American jet bomber that failed to progress beyond a first prototype
Dawn Raid - Frank Speight recalls a night of panic on the coast of East Africa during World War Two
Percival Aircraft 1933-54 - Part 2 - R. John Silvester continues his recollections of working with the Percival Aircraft Company, with accounts of the Percival Q.6 and the Mew Gull
Skywriters
Flying for all - The formation of the Civil Air Guard in 1938 brought flying within reach of almost all pockets. Lettice Curtis tells the story of its formation and of the significant part the CAG was to play in Britain's preparation for war
Armchair Aviation
The classic aero engines - No 5 Part 2 - The Pratt & Whitney Wasp - Bill Gunston continues the story of one of America's most important piston engines
Those magnificent mags - Part 2 - F. H. Winstanley continues his three-part coverage of early aviation magazines with an account of the American pulps of the inter-war years
Preservation Profile - The all-red Hawker Hunter Mk 51 G-HUNT comes under close scrutiny
Drawing a bead - R. Wallace Clarke begins a series of articles on aircraft gun sights and opens with an account of the primitive methods of gun sighting used during World War One
Personal Album - John Brancher was a regular visitor to Croydon airport during the 1940s and his photographs depict civil aircraft taken there in 1947
A microlight made for two - The two seat Duet microlight described
Our front cover features Lindsay Walton's Nord 1002 Pingouin G-ATBG, photographed by RICHARD WILSON. The aircraft was previously registered in France as F-BGVX, F-OTAN-5 and F-BGVX again, before appearing on the British register in February 1965. Depicted on the inside front cover is Bristol Bulldog HA K1085, photographed by CHARLES SIMS of The Aeroplane. K1085 flew with Nos 17 and 19 Sqns before being struck off RAF charge on October 20, 1930.
Convair's experimental four-jet bomber - Bill Gunston describes another first generation American jet bomber that failed to progress beyond a first prototype
Dawn Raid - Frank Speight recalls a night of panic on the coast of East Africa during World War Two
Percival Aircraft 1933-54 - Part 2 - R. John Silvester continues his recollections of working with the Percival Aircraft Company, with accounts of the Percival Q.6 and the Mew Gull
Skywriters
Flying for all - The formation of the Civil Air Guard in 1938 brought flying within reach of almost all pockets. Lettice Curtis tells the story of its formation and of the significant part the CAG was to play in Britain's preparation for war
Armchair Aviation
The classic aero engines - No 5 Part 2 - The Pratt & Whitney Wasp - Bill Gunston continues the story of one of America's most important piston engines
Those magnificent mags - Part 2 - F. H. Winstanley continues his three-part coverage of early aviation magazines with an account of the American pulps of the inter-war years
Preservation Profile - The all-red Hawker Hunter Mk 51 G-HUNT comes under close scrutiny
Drawing a bead - R. Wallace Clarke begins a series of articles on aircraft gun sights and opens with an account of the primitive methods of gun sighting used during World War One
Personal Album - John Brancher was a regular visitor to Croydon airport during the 1940s and his photographs depict civil aircraft taken there in 1947
A microlight made for two - The two seat Duet microlight described
Our front cover features Lindsay Walton's Nord 1002 Pingouin G-ATBG, photographed by RICHARD WILSON. The aircraft was previously registered in France as F-BGVX, F-OTAN-5 and F-BGVX again, before appearing on the British register in February 1965. Depicted on the inside front cover is Bristol Bulldog HA K1085, photographed by CHARLES SIMS of The Aeroplane. K1085 flew with Nos 17 and 19 Sqns before being struck off RAF charge on October 20, 1930.
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