Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
AIRSCENE - Military, commercial and aerospace industry news from around the world with the major stories highlighted.
RAF OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS - Much of the equipment in service with the RAF is becoming uneconomical to maintain and is losing its edge in performance. John Fricker looks at the service’s wish list and the industry’s responses.
US CUSTOMS SERVICE P-3 AIR FORCE David Reade describes the role and variants of the Lockheed P-3 in service with the US Customs Service to combat drug smuggling.
SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT: REGIONAL AIRLINES AND THEIR AIRCRAFT - In this survey Alan J Wright presents an overview of the subject and Barry Wheeler details aircraft currently in service with a capacity of approximately 35 to 80 passengers.
HARRIER TAKES A BOW - With the air display season about to begin, Fit Lt Robert Lea, the RAF Harrier GR.7 display pilot for 1993, gives a ‘from the cockpit’ view of his routine.
YAKOVLEV’S TACTICAL TWINS - Yefim Gordon and Boris Rybak reveal details of the twin-engined Yakovlev Yak-25/28 family; which performed a wide variety of roles from ground attack to high-altitude reconnaissance.
VIETNAM AIRLINES - Stifled, until recently, by lack of financial investment in the country, Vietnam Airlines is now experiencing an increase in traffic with the growth of tourism and industry; Julian Green reports.
FIGHTER A TO Z - Continuing the AIR International encyclopaedia of the world’s fighter aircraft, this month covering Sopwith Triplane and Camel variants.
CZECH RECCE TECH - Recently declassified documents were accessed by Jaroslav Spacek to describe the VR-3 Soviet reconnaissance drone in service with the Czechoslovak Air Force.
FLYING COLOURS - In Luftwaffe’s Recognition Markings, Barry Wheeler corrects the myth that gaudy colour schemes were only sported by fighter aces.
TALKBACK - Readers’ letters on subjects carried in past issues of the magazine.
IN PRINT - Reviews of some recent books received.
FRONT COVER - Looking like identical twins (no pun intended), the ATR 42 carries 42 to 50 passengers and the ATR 72, following behind, carries 66 to 74 passengers. Full details of these and other regional airliners are given in the special supplement beginning on page 228. (Photo, ATR).
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