Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Grapevine - Michael Oakey's monthly review of happenings in the aircraft preservation world
Probe probare - Continuing their series on aircraft which received special attention from the Aeroplane & Armament Experimental Establishment, Alee Lumsden and Terry Heffernan conclude their examination of the Miles Kestrel and Master trainers
Channel challenge - On July 25, 1909, Louis Bleriot became the first aviator to fly an aeroplane across the English Channel. Could his feat be successfully re-enacted 80yr on, without modern aids to performance and reliability? Gloria Pullan, the pilot who tried it, recounts her attempt
Born again: the Aircraft Restoration Company Paradoxically strengthened by the tragic loss of its Bristol Blenheim in 1987, the Duxford-based British Aerial Museum now has a new name and - amid a prodigious output of other projects - is forging ahead with a new Blenheim. Chris Burkett reports
Vintage trio - With a combined age of 224yr, two Australian brothers and their Westland Widgeon comprise the world's "most vintage" flying trio. Barry Weller reports
The bellicose Brewster - Part 1 - F. Gemeinhardt, J. Lucabaugh and R. Martin begin a three-part history of the Brewster
SB2A - Buccaneer scout/dive-bomber (known in RAF service as the Bermuda), one of the least successful production combat aircraft of World War Two
Personal album - military A collection of World War Two photographs taken in Egypt and Malta
Tinfish Hampdens - Former Handley Page Hampden pilot I. H. Mason recalls the wartime use of the "Flying Panhandle" as a stopgap torpedo bomber
Preservation profile - The history of one of two Bristol Sycamore helicopters currently airworthy in Switzerland
Wings of peace - The Italian Fiat G.2, APR.2 and G.I 8 are the subject this month in John Stroud's long-running series on European between - the - wars airliners
Personal album - civil - Pictures of multi-engined American flying-boats taken at San Pedro, California before the war
Cadet class of 1942 - Part 1 - Charles Bur net begins a two-part recollection of his five years as an Air Training Corps cadet during, and just after. World War Two
CHRIS BURKETT'S front cover photograph features the Aircraft Restoration Company's Morane MS.505 Criquet G-BPHZ being flown by John Larcombe in the Duxford area in August this year. A feature on the company, previously known as the British Aerial Museum, may be found on pages
Probe probare - Continuing their series on aircraft which received special attention from the Aeroplane & Armament Experimental Establishment, Alee Lumsden and Terry Heffernan conclude their examination of the Miles Kestrel and Master trainers
Channel challenge - On July 25, 1909, Louis Bleriot became the first aviator to fly an aeroplane across the English Channel. Could his feat be successfully re-enacted 80yr on, without modern aids to performance and reliability? Gloria Pullan, the pilot who tried it, recounts her attempt
Born again: the Aircraft Restoration Company Paradoxically strengthened by the tragic loss of its Bristol Blenheim in 1987, the Duxford-based British Aerial Museum now has a new name and - amid a prodigious output of other projects - is forging ahead with a new Blenheim. Chris Burkett reports
Vintage trio - With a combined age of 224yr, two Australian brothers and their Westland Widgeon comprise the world's "most vintage" flying trio. Barry Weller reports
The bellicose Brewster - Part 1 - F. Gemeinhardt, J. Lucabaugh and R. Martin begin a three-part history of the Brewster
SB2A - Buccaneer scout/dive-bomber (known in RAF service as the Bermuda), one of the least successful production combat aircraft of World War Two
Personal album - military A collection of World War Two photographs taken in Egypt and Malta
Tinfish Hampdens - Former Handley Page Hampden pilot I. H. Mason recalls the wartime use of the "Flying Panhandle" as a stopgap torpedo bomber
Preservation profile - The history of one of two Bristol Sycamore helicopters currently airworthy in Switzerland
Wings of peace - The Italian Fiat G.2, APR.2 and G.I 8 are the subject this month in John Stroud's long-running series on European between - the - wars airliners
Personal album - civil - Pictures of multi-engined American flying-boats taken at San Pedro, California before the war
Cadet class of 1942 - Part 1 - Charles Bur net begins a two-part recollection of his five years as an Air Training Corps cadet during, and just after. World War Two
CHRIS BURKETT'S front cover photograph features the Aircraft Restoration Company's Morane MS.505 Criquet G-BPHZ being flown by John Larcombe in the Duxford area in August this year. A feature on the company, previously known as the British Aerial Museum, may be found on pages
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