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OEING'S BEAUTIFUL BABY - With sales recently having passed the 700 mark, the Boeing 737 ranks as the third most successful of the Boeing jetliner family and second only to the DC-9 as the most successful twin jet. In this article, the origins of the 737 are traced and its current capabilities described. WESTLAND-S WG 30 FOR THE EIGHTIES - With the newly-developed WG 30, an outgrowth of the successful Lynx programme, Westland hopes to secure a substantial stake in the market for medium- sized multi-role military helicopters and, as explained in this article, is also assessing its commercial potential. V-G FOR COMBAT AIRCRAFT - Since the first aeroplane to employ variable wing sweepback flew in 1951, this aerodynamic feature has been applied to numerous military aircraft designs a€ and some civil projects. The advantages of variable sweep are here described in the third of the ""Fundamentals of Design"" articles by BRA Burns. FROM SOTKA TO PESHKA - Designed as a high altitude long-range interceptor, the Petlyakov Pe-2 was to become the most-produced of any bomber to serve with the Soviet forces. Even more remarkable, as this account relates, was the fact that it was designed by a group of engineers under detention at the instigation of the NKVD... AIRSCENE - The monthly round-up of news and background to the news presented under section headings for Military Affairs, Aircraft and Industry, Civil Affairs and new Civil and Military Aircraft Contracts. 84 FIGHTER A TO Z Continuing the AIR international encyclopaedia of the world's fighter aircraft, from the Focke-Wulf Fw 190F to the Ta 154. MODEL ENTHUSIAST - Modelling comments, the latest kits reviewed and two pages of colour illustrations of the Lisunov Li-2. 96 OBLIQUE-WING TESTING BEGINS: Details and photographs of the unique Ames AD-1, built for a NASA research programme. 97 AIRDATA FILE A specially enlarged section containing technical data, photographs and general arrangement drawings of some of the new aircraft that were exhibited at the Paris Air Show, or were the subject of announcements and news releases on that occasion, including the EMBRAER EMB-312, L410 UVP Turbolet, Dornier Do 28D-6 Skyservant, MBB BO 105L, RFB Fantrainer 400, Aerospatiale AS 35, Aerospatiale SA365N Dauphin 2, Dassault-Breguet Mystere/Falcon 20H, SOCATA TB9 Tampico/TBlO Tobago, Caproni Vizzola CA 22J, Siai Marchetti SF 200 Canguro, Repair AG AS 32T, British Aerospace BAe 146M and Gulfstream American GAC-159C Gulfstream Commuter. FRONT COVER: The Westland WG 30 is Europe's newest helicopter, developed around the dynamic system of the Lynx with a cabin optimised for load-carrying.
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