Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
REGULARS:
NEWS - All the latest preservation news, presented by Tony Harmsworth
LOST AND FOUND - Philip Jarrett lays an 'Indian myth" to rest
CONTACT! - Paul Coggan comments on the preservation scene
SKYWRITERS - Readers' letters on a wide variety of topics
FLYING VISIT - A potted interview with Ray Hanna, by Melvyn Hiscock
PICTURE OF THE MONTH - This month s photograph features - Aaah! again - the de Havilland Comet airliner
HIGH SOCIETY - The International Auster Club is this month's subject
LOOKING BACK - Nick Stroud browses in The Aeroplane of 65 years ago - June 1938
CROSSWIND - John Maynard's regular comment column
FEATURES:
THE ENEMY WITHIN - Roy Nesbit reveals how a Gestapo agent came to the UK in World War Two, joined the RAF as a fighter pilot - and stole a Hawker Hurricane
H.P.42 UPDATE - Roger Allton reports on the latest moves to build an airworthy Handley Page H.P.42 biplane airliner
PRESERVATION PIONEERS - Bill Grigg profiles Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth, founder of the eponymous Old Warden-based collection of airworthy historic aircraft
A CENTURY OF ... AIRSHOWS - Display commentator Melvyn Hibcock encapsulates 100 years of aviation's public performances
SPITFIRE MASTERPIECE - An air-to-air portrait by Richard Paver
REBUILDING A LEGEND - Martin Barraclough and Tom Storey complete their account of how, 25 years ago, they rescued Alex Henshaw's record-setting Percival Mew Gull from oblivion and put it back in the air
PERSONAL ALBUM - A colourful parade of Moranes from Mike Hooks
GOOD AT MATHS - Harold Thompson describes his overnight transition from wartime school leaver to jet engine tester
LA PATROUILLE EST CINQUANTE - A 50th anniversary salute to the French national acrobatic team, by Adrian Balch
DATABASE: MESSERSCHMITT Me 262 59:
TYPE HISTORY - Dr Alfred Price describes the genesis and developmenf' of one of the world's first operational jet fighters
SCALE DRAWINGS - Three-view drawing of the Me 262A-la by Tim Hall
THE SWALLOW'S ANATOMY - Despite being designed for low-cost, simple production, the Me 262 introduced several innovations, as Dr Alfred Price explains
CUTAWAY DRAWING - The Me 262B-1a/U1 two-seat nightfighter in detail by Mike Badrocke
ENGINE TROUBLES - The Me 262 was an excellent design able to inflict great damage IF the engines performed well
HITLER'S EDICT - Long dismissed as capricious eccentricity, Hitler's plan to employ the Me 262 solely as a bomber actually made sound tactical sense, relates Dr Alfred Price
THE STURMVOGEL AT WAR - Had the Stormbird, as the Me 262 was known, been readier for war, it could have created serious problems for the Allied Forces
A SINISTER BEAUTY - The pilot's perspective by Capt Eric M. Brown
STORMBIRD SURVIVORS - The museum and replica Me 262s
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
Ju 52 Competition
Internet review
Reader offers
Information exchange
Airshows and events
RIAT Competition
Fortis Watch Competition
Next month in Aeroplane
Aeroplane services
NEWS - All the latest preservation news, presented by Tony Harmsworth
LOST AND FOUND - Philip Jarrett lays an 'Indian myth" to rest
CONTACT! - Paul Coggan comments on the preservation scene
SKYWRITERS - Readers' letters on a wide variety of topics
FLYING VISIT - A potted interview with Ray Hanna, by Melvyn Hiscock
PICTURE OF THE MONTH - This month s photograph features - Aaah! again - the de Havilland Comet airliner
HIGH SOCIETY - The International Auster Club is this month's subject
LOOKING BACK - Nick Stroud browses in The Aeroplane of 65 years ago - June 1938
CROSSWIND - John Maynard's regular comment column
FEATURES:
THE ENEMY WITHIN - Roy Nesbit reveals how a Gestapo agent came to the UK in World War Two, joined the RAF as a fighter pilot - and stole a Hawker Hurricane
H.P.42 UPDATE - Roger Allton reports on the latest moves to build an airworthy Handley Page H.P.42 biplane airliner
PRESERVATION PIONEERS - Bill Grigg profiles Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth, founder of the eponymous Old Warden-based collection of airworthy historic aircraft
A CENTURY OF ... AIRSHOWS - Display commentator Melvyn Hibcock encapsulates 100 years of aviation's public performances
SPITFIRE MASTERPIECE - An air-to-air portrait by Richard Paver
REBUILDING A LEGEND - Martin Barraclough and Tom Storey complete their account of how, 25 years ago, they rescued Alex Henshaw's record-setting Percival Mew Gull from oblivion and put it back in the air
PERSONAL ALBUM - A colourful parade of Moranes from Mike Hooks
GOOD AT MATHS - Harold Thompson describes his overnight transition from wartime school leaver to jet engine tester
LA PATROUILLE EST CINQUANTE - A 50th anniversary salute to the French national acrobatic team, by Adrian Balch
DATABASE: MESSERSCHMITT Me 262 59:
TYPE HISTORY - Dr Alfred Price describes the genesis and developmenf' of one of the world's first operational jet fighters
SCALE DRAWINGS - Three-view drawing of the Me 262A-la by Tim Hall
THE SWALLOW'S ANATOMY - Despite being designed for low-cost, simple production, the Me 262 introduced several innovations, as Dr Alfred Price explains
CUTAWAY DRAWING - The Me 262B-1a/U1 two-seat nightfighter in detail by Mike Badrocke
ENGINE TROUBLES - The Me 262 was an excellent design able to inflict great damage IF the engines performed well
HITLER'S EDICT - Long dismissed as capricious eccentricity, Hitler's plan to employ the Me 262 solely as a bomber actually made sound tactical sense, relates Dr Alfred Price
THE STURMVOGEL AT WAR - Had the Stormbird, as the Me 262 was known, been readier for war, it could have created serious problems for the Allied Forces
A SINISTER BEAUTY - The pilot's perspective by Capt Eric M. Brown
STORMBIRD SURVIVORS - The museum and replica Me 262s
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
Ju 52 Competition
Internet review
Reader offers
Information exchange
Airshows and events
RIAT Competition
Fortis Watch Competition
Next month in Aeroplane
Aeroplane services
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