Features:
Beyond Unconventional - Karlheinz Kens takes a detailed look at the bizarre Blohm und Voss Bv 141 asymmetric reconnaissance aircraft ? and why it lost out to the Fw 189...
Pakistan's Delta Force - Usman Shabbir and Yawar A. Mazhar relate how, in 1971, Pakistan's small force of Mirage delta jet fighters made its mark in the Indo-Pakistan war
Fly Navy! - We celebrate a century of Royal Navy aviation with a selection of Aeroplane images from the Navy Days of the 1940s and 1950s
Propliner Progress - Roger Carvell reports from Duxford on the continued resoration of the- Duxford Aviation Society's elegant Airspeed Ambassador airliner
Tourist Twosome - Two brothers, two classic Waco DBF-2 biplanes - Frank B. Mormillo explains a unique double act in the USA

Regulars:
News - All the latest preservation news, compiled by Tony Harmsworth
Aircrew - The role of Vickers Vimy Navigator, as demonstrated by Arthur Whitten Brown 90 years ago
Readers'Archive - An evocative selection of pictures from Malta, sent in by Ron Richards
Where on Earth? - A virtual search for aircraft amid the Black Sea coast, with Peter Davison
Picture of the Month - Nautical but nice - this month's subject is an RN Grumman Martlet
From the Archives - Nick Stroud revisits the aviation news and issues of 50 years ago - 1959
Crosswind - John Fricker provides sideways comment on the aviation world
Skywriters - A selection of readers' letters on a wide range of topics
Flying Visit - Melvyn Hiscock puts his usual questions to Maurice Hammond
Hairy Moment - Our regular spot for your Historic-aviation close calls

Database - The Vickers Vimy:
To coincide with the 90th anniversary ofAlcock and Brown's monumental transatlantic flight JAMES KIGHTLY tells the full story of the trusty type they used - Vickers' dependable Vimy:
- The big bomber's beginnings - 67 Scale drawings by Juanita Franzi
- The Vimy's entry into RAF service
- Construction and systems: includes cutaway illustration by Mike Badrocke
- The Vimy's many record flights
- Adapting the bomber into an airliner
- The final variants - Vernon to Valentia
- Pilot's Perspective - what it's like to fly

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