| Aircraft Magazines Guide |
Air Enthusiast
Contents Listing
| 1 | 1/1976 |
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| [Air Enthusiast Quarterly] Soviet Flies in Spanish Skies by the editors (Polikarpov I-16 in Spain, cutaway, 2 pages col drwgs); The Day of the Dewoitine by Pierre Leyvastre (Dewoitine D.500-D.510 series, competitor side-view line drwgs, variants side-view line drwgs, cutaway, 1 page col drwgs, 3-view line drwg); Westland's Winged Dragon by the editors (Wyvern, variants side-view line drwgs, 2 3-view drwgs, cutaway, pilots notes); The Agile & Aggressive Albatros by Peter Grosz (Albatros D.I to D.Va, 4 3-view line drwgs, cutaway); Wackett's Wonder by Keith Isaacs (Woomera torpedo-bomber, 2 3-view line drwgs, cockpit drwgs, 1 page col drwgs); Brewster's Benighted Buffalo by the editors (F2A Buffalo, 2 pages col drwgs, cutaway); Dora-9 and the Tank Fighters by Eberhard-Dietrich Weber (long-nosed Fw 190 and Ta 152, variants table, 3 variants side view line drwgs, 3 3-view line drwgs, cutaway, pilots notes) [112 pages] | |
| 2 | 2/1976 |
| Flying the "Wooden Warrior" by Ladislav Valousek (Lavochkin La-5, cutaway, 1 page col drwgs, cockpit drwg); Vampire on a Trampoline by Eric Brown (RAE undercarriageless landing tests); Those Classic Nieuports by J M Bruce (Nieuport 16, 17, 17bis and 23, cutaway, 1 3-view drwg); Pentagon Over The Islands (Indonesian military aviation); Annals of the Gauntlet (Gloster Gauntlet, 2 pages col drwgs, cutaway); Convair's Delta Alpha by Richard P Hallion (Convair XP-92 3-view line drwg, XF-92A flight testing, 3-view line drwg); The "Folding Fighters" of the 'Forties (Nikitin-Shevchenko IS-1, IS-2, IS-4 etc, cutaway, 3-view line drwg, variants side view line drwgs); Talkback (readers letters: I-16 in Spain corrections, F2A registrations, British D.510A photo); The Allison-Engined Mustang - A Fighting Combination by Christopher Shores (early P-51s, cutaway, 2 pages col drwgs); The Green Hell Air War by Georg von Rauch (Bolivia vs Paraguay in 1930s, 1 page col drwgs); Reggiane and I...A Fighter Designer Recalls by Roberto Longhi (Re 2001 cutaway, Re 2007 cutaway, Re 2006 3-view, Re 2007 3-view, Re 2008/Ca 8000 3-view) [112 pages] | |
| 3 | 1/1977 |
| Barrier-Breaking Fury (2 pages col drwgs, 3-view line drwg, cutaway, variants side view line drwgs, Fury monoplane 3-view line drwg); X-4 - The Bantam Explorer by Richard P Hallion (cutaway, 3-view line drwg); Sustained Supersonics - Soviet Style (MiG-19, cutaway, 3-view line drwg, variants side view line drwgs); The Benighted Rolands by Peter M Grosz (LFG Roland fighters - especially D.VI, cutaway, 3-view line drwg); Grumman's Willing Wildcat (XF4F-1 biplane 3-view line drwg, variants side view line drwgs, 3-view line drwg, cutaway, pilots notes, 2 pages col drwgs, cockpit drwg); The Annals of the Kiwi Kittyhawks by Christopher Shores (RNZAF P-40s, 1 col profile); RCT Armament in the Boeing B-29 by John Brown (Remote-Controlled Turret system); Talkback (readers letters: Indonesia corrections, Green Hell Air War correction); Fighters a la Francaise - Part One by Georges Bruner (French inter-war fighter development, 15 3-view line drwgs, 11 col profiles, 4 diagrams); End of a Line... The Last Curtiss Navy Fighter by Hal Andrews (XF15C-1, 3-view line drwg, variants side view line drwgs); The Canadian Junkers - An Arctic Odyssey by William Paul Ferguson (Junkers F 13 3-view line drwg) [112 pages] | |
| 4 | 2/1977 |
| Tiger in the Sky...the Saga of the AVG by Mike Minnich (American Volunteer Group in WW2, 1 page col drwgs, victory list); Serendipity at Santa Monica - The Story of the Douglas X-3 by Richard P Hallion (3-view line drwg); The Widow from Hawthorne by Warren Thompson (P-61 Black Widow personal recollections, 1 col profile, cutaway, cockpit drwg); Canadian Innovation - The CF-100 Story by Robert Bradford (cutaway, 3-view line drwg & variants side views); The Postwar Messerschmitt (Me 262 in Czechoslovakia, 1 page col drwgs); Tupolev's Tractable Twin - The Story of the Tu-2 Family (variants side view line drwgs, 1 page col profiles, two 3-view line drwgs, cutaway); Talkback (readers letters: Spanish Fury comments, F4F Wildcat comments, Roland caption error, DH.86 in Indonesia correction); Sopwith's Pedigree Pup by J M Bruce (cutaway, 3-view line drwg); The Super 71...A Canadian Fairchild by William Paul Ferguson (3-view line drwg); Fighters a la Francaise - Part Two by Georges Bruner (French inter-war fighter development, 22 3-view line drwgs) [112 pages] | |
| 5 | November 1977-February 1978 |
| [Air Enthusiast] Uncle Sam's Last Combat Biplane (Curtiss SBC, 3-view line drwg & variants side views, cutaway, 2 pages col drwgs, pilots notes); More Nieuport Classics by J M Bruce (Nieuport 24 and 27, 1 page col drwgs, cutaway, 3-view line drwg); Diving Vengeance by Christopher Shores and Frank F Smith (Vultee V-72 Vengeance service use, 6 col profiles, pilots notes); The Disappointing Defiant by Les Whitehouse (Boulton Paul Defiant, three 3-view line drwgs & variants side views, 5 col profiles, cutaway); The Lovelorn Libellula by Eric Brown (Miles M.35 and M.39 Libellula, 4 3-view line drwgs, cutaway); By 'Scrutator' to Sweden by J H 'Jimmy' Orrell (BOAC Hudsons on the Leuchars-Stockholm route, map); Saga of the Rocket Ships by Richard P Hallion (Bell X-1, Douglas D-558-2, Bell X-2: two 3-view line drwgs & variants side views); Talkback (readers letters: RCAF Fairchild Super 71, AVG P-40E delivery flights, Italian Aeronautical Mission to China 1937, Allison Mustangs update); Sixty Years on... by Jeremy Howard-Williams (RFC encounter in Bloody April 1917) [80 pages] | |
| 6 | March-June 1978 |
| The Agile Asian...Japan's Type 97 Fighter (Nakajima Ki-27, variants side view line drwgs, cutaway, 3 col profiles, 3-view line drwg); Saga of the Rocket Ships by Richard P Hallion (X-15, cutaway, 3-view line drwg); The Uncompetitive Condor by H A Taylor (Curtiss Condor, 13 col profiles); The Desert Sharks by David B Brown (No.112 Sqn with Kittyhawks in the Western Desert, 4 col profiles, cockpit drwg); F-82: Killers over Korea by Warren Thompson (F-82 Twin Mustang, cutaway, 3-view line drwg, variants side view line drwgs); The RAE's S.E.5A...A Significant Survivor by R J Spiers (Shuttleworth's S.E.5a restoration, cutaway, 3-view col drwg, pilots notes, cockpit drwg); The Long Aerial Mine: Failure or Unrealised Potential? by Alfred Price (RAF WW2 experimental anti-bomber weapon, 3 diagrams); Helicopter Pioneers of World War I by Peter M Grosz (Austro-Hungarian pioneers, 4 drawings); Talkback (readers letters: Vengeance criticisms, CF-100 comments, Miles supersonic airliner libellula project) [80 pages] | |
| 7 | July-September 1978 |
| The Saga of the Ubiquitious Breguet by Pierre Leyvastre (Breguet 19, variants side view line drwgs, two 3-view line drwgs, cutaway, wing shape diagram, 2 pages col drwgs); Messerschmitt Over Spain (Legion Condor Bf 109s, 4 col profiles, cutaway, map); The Incredible Inflatable by Terry Heffernan (ML Utility, 3-view line drwg); The Trisonic Titanium Republic by Richard A DeMeis (Republic XF-103, cutaway, diagram, 3-view line drwg); Adios to the Mustang (F-51s retired by Bolivia, 2 photos); A Bomber That Almost Missed its War! - The Douglas Invader Story by Rene J Francillon (A-26/B-26, 2 pages col drwgs, cutaway, 3-view line drwg & variants side view drwgs, pilots notes); Bruno Baade's "Stratojet" (EF 150, 3-view line drwg); Talkback (readers letters: Curtiss SBC colours, No.4 BFTS memories, CF-100 errors, NASA hypersonic projects) [80 pages] | |
| 8 | October 1978-January 1979 |
| The Annals of Sugar Baker Two Uncle (Vought SB2C Vindicator, 2 pages col drwgs, cutaway, 3-view line drwg); The Fokker Dr I - A Reappraisal by Peter M Grosz and A E Ferko (2 pages col drwgs, cutaway); Night Intruder, Korean Style by Robert C Mikesh (B-26 Invader operations in Korean War, cockpit drwg, map); Ford's Stout-Hearted Trimotor by H A Taylor (3-view line drwg, cutaway); Saga of the Rocket Ships by Richard P Hallion (M2-F1, X-24 & HL-10 lifting bodies, map); The Last Fighting "Forts" (Israeli B-17s, 1 col profile); Avro's Fallen Arrow by Robert Bradford (Avro CF-105, cutaway, 3-view line drwg); Talkback (readers letters: Buffalo production, Brewster 340 photo, First Australian casualty in Pacific War, Breguet 19 & 280T memories, RAF M serial aircraft) [80 pages] | |
| 9 | February-May 1979 |
| Boeing 100: An Admirable Airworthy Antique by Lew Wallick; Armstrong-Whitworth's Willing Whitley (2 pages col drwgs, 3-view line drwg & variant side view line drwgs, cutaway, pilots notes); A Grumman By Any Other Name... (Grumman G-23/SF-1/FF-1, cutaway, variants side view line drwgs, 2 pages col drwgs); Tip-Tow and Tom-Tom by Jay Miller (USAF experiments in wing-tip coupling of fighters and bombers); The Trend-Setting 247 by H A Taylor (Boeing 247, cutaway, 3-view line drwg); Soviet Stovepipes by Richard P Hallion (Russian ramjet flying test beds); The Bullets and the Guns by J M Bruce (Morane Saulnier Type N, cutaway, two 3-view line drwgs); The Last of Die Grossen Dessauer (Ju 290 in Spain); Talkback [80 pages] | |
| 10 | July-September 1979 |
| An Ill-Fated 'Swallow'...But a Harbinger of Summer by Eric Brown (flying the DH.108 Swallow, cutaway, 3-view line drwg & variants side view line drwgs); The End of the Begining...The Seversky P-35 (variants side view line drwgs, cutaway, 2 pages col drwgs); Prestwick's STOL Pioneer by N J Capper (Scottish Aviation Pioneer); The Fight for Iraq - 1941 by Christopher Shores (map, 11 col profiles); The Ten Long Years of the Short Stirling (3-view line drwg & variants side view line drwgs, cutaway, 1 page col drwgs); The First "Wooden Wonder" by H A Taylor (DH.88 Comet, cutaway, 3-view line drwg); Ten Big Boeings...The Stratoliner Saga by H A Taylor (Boeing 307, cutaway, 3-view line drwg & variants side view line drwgs); Contraband Wings of the Spanish War...Britain's Clandestine Contribution by Gerald Howson (British aircraft clandestinely exported to Spain in 1936); Talkback (readers letters: Trimotor corrections, Israeli B-17s correction, A-26 memories, Boeing 247 update, Breguet 19 & Grumman FF-1 in Spain, DH.9 'Patria' & Bre 19 at Karachi pics)[80 pages] | |
| 11 | November 1979-February 1980 |
| HA-300: Egypt's Cosmopolitan Status Symbol by Kapil Bhargava (Helwan HA-300, 3-view line drwg); Of Chaika And Chato...Polikarpov's Fighting Biplanes (I-15, I-152, I-153, three 3-view line drwgs & variants side view line drwgs, two cutaways, 15 col profiles); Talkback (readers letters: Stirling comments, DH.9A 'Patria' & Breguet 16); Eyes for the Artillery...Flying Austers in World War II by Eversley Belfield (British Army AOP flying, cutaway); Structural Failures in Wartime...And Some Solutions by Paul Jenkins (some problems afflicting famous RAF aircraft of WW2, 7 diagrams); Keeping the Old Birds Flying by Tom Cleaver (the US vintage aircraft scene); Lockheed P-80: The Story of a Star by Richard P Hallion (two 3-view line drwgs & variants side view line drwgs, 1 page col drwgs, cutaway); Saga of the C-Class 'Boats by H A Taylor (Short S.23 C-Class, cutaway, 3-view line drwg) [80 pages] | |
| 12 | April-July 1980 |
| The Annals of Ilyusha...Ilyushin's Proliferous Shturmovik (Il-2, 1 col profile, variants side view line drwgs, 2 pages col drwgs, cutaway, two 3-view line drwgs); T-33 and F-94...More Stars in the Lockheed Galaxy by Richard P Hallion (three 3-view line drwgs with variants side view line drwgs, F-94 cutaway); Fokker's "Lucky Seven" by H A Taylor and Peter Alting (Fokker F VII, cutaway, 2.5 pages col drwgs); The Aerial Art of Arthur Gibson by Chris Wren (air-air photography); Talkback (readers letters: GE-23 Goblin, HP Harrow of Flight Refuelling, Portuguese DH.88 Comet, F-80 note & P-12E survivor & Tom-Tom EF-84Ds, B-26 pics, Boeing 307 pic, Bolivian F-51D pic, Boeing 247 to China, British Aircraft to Spain update, Pioneer correction, Ford Trimotor in PNG and Spain); "Operation Ball" USAAF Operations in Sweden 1944-45 by Bo Widfeldt; Vicker's First Fighters by J M Bruce (Vickers F.B.1 to F.B.9, two 3-view line drwgs) [80 pages] | |
| 13 | August-November 1980 |
| Do X - Dr Dornier's Great White Wal by John Weal (3-view line drwg, cutaway); Fighters of the Cross of Christ by Mario Canongia Lopes (Portuguese AF fighter units 1940-1952, 8 col profiles); Ilyushin's Proliferous Shturmovik II (Il-2/Il-10 family, 1 col profile, two 3-view line drwgs, 2 pages col drwgs, cutaway); Miles M.52 - The Supersonic Dream by Eric Brown (3-view line drwg, cutaway, 2 diagrams); Fokker's Trimotors Go To War by Gerald Howson (Spanish civil war use, 2 col profiles); Old Rhinebeck's New Dolphin by Peter Kilduff (Sopwith Dolphin replica); World's Fastest Mustangs by Chuck Aro (1979 Reno air races); Under Cover of Darkness...The Wellington At War by Rupert Cooling (RAF Wellington ops in WW2, cutaway); An Airline At War by Herman De Wulf (Sabena in WW2); Talkback (readers letters: Fight For Iraq comments, Operation Ball Finnish fighters, Short S.31 half-scale Stirling, Keeping The Old Birds Flying corrections, No.216 Sqn incident in Libya 1926, Tip-Tow update, Fokker F VII update) [80 pages] | |
| 14 | December 1980-March 1981 |
| Boeing's Fighter Finale...The Peashooter Chronicle (Boeing P-26, 2 col 2-view drwgs, 9 col profiles, cutaway); TSR 2: Yesterday's Answer to Tomorrow's Problem by Graham Wilmer (BAC TSR 2, two 3-view line drwgs, 10 diagrams, cutaway); Constellation: Lockheed's "Queen of the Skies" by H A Taylor (Lockheed Constellation, two 3-view line drwgs and variants side view line drwgs, cutaway); Back From The Graveyard by Tom Cleaver (F4U-7 Corsair restoration); A Revelation - Handley Page's Flying Suitcase by Rupert Cooling (flying the Hampden, 1 page col drwgs, cutaway); Biplanes For The Fliegertruppe by Peter Grosz and A E Ferko (Halberstadt D series, no drwgs); Rescue At Ban Phanop by Earl H Tilford (rescue of USAF F-4 crew shot down over Vietnam); Talkback (readers letters: Vickers fighters comment, Reno racing comments, Il-2 corrections, An Airline At War - Ensign not S.73, Sabena aircraft corrections, Lufthansa Ju 290s) [80 pages] | |
| 15 | April-July 1981 |
| Supermarine 510 and Hawker P.1052...Their Lives And Violent Times by Charles Burnett and Eric Morgan (2 cutaways, 2 3-view line drwgs with variant details, 1 diagram); Halifax: Bomber Command's Second String...The Halifax (Handley Page Halifax, two 3-view line drwg with variants side view line drwgs, 12 col profiles, cutaway); Talkback (readers letters: Sabena corrections, Iraq 1941 comments, Operation Ball corrections, Fokker F VII comments); C-Class 'Boats at War by David Vincent (Short C-Class operations with RAAF); Skymaster Story...the Fourth Douglas Commercial by H A Taylor (DC-4, cutaway, 3-view line drwg with variants side view line drwg); Mustangs in Korea by Warren Thompson (P-51 operations); The First Fighting SPADs by J M Bruce (SPAD 7/SPAD VII, 8 col profiles, cutaway) [80 pages] | |
| 16 | August-November 1981 |
| The Rise...And Fall of the Vietnamese AF by Jim Mesko (VNAF history, 1 map); America's Spitfires by Christopher Shores (Spitfire in USAAF service, 6 col profiles); The RAF in Greece - 1940-41 by Eric Bevington-Smith; CW-21: The St Louis Lightweight by Gerard Casius (Curtiss-Wright CW-21, 1 map, cutaway, 3-view line drwg); Sixes And Sevens - Piston-Engined Transports That Ended A Douglas Dynasty by H A Taylor (DC-6 & DC-7, 2 3-view line drwgs); The Blenheim in Yugoslavia by Zoran Jerin (JKRV Bristol Blenheim operations, cutaway, 3 col profiles); Talkback (readers letters: Supermarine 510 correction, SPAD 7 additional info, P-26 comments); Junkers F 13...The Pioneer From Dessau by John Stroud (3-view line drwg, variants side view line drwgs, cutaway) [80 pages] | |
| 17 | December 1981-March 1982 |
| Armstrong Whitworth's Flying Wings...A Tale of No Tails by Ray Williams (A.W.52, 7 3-view line drwgs, 2 cutaways); Walrus...Amphibious Angel of Mercy by Eric B Morgan and Charles Burnet (Supermarine Walrus, 10 col profiles, 3-view line drwg, 1 col plan view, 1 diagram, cutaway); PR Flying and the Spitfire by David B Brown (7 col profiles); Talkback (readers letters: Fokker F VII comments, Halberstadt comments, Junkers F 13 additional info); "Britain Captures Schneider Trophy" by David Mondey (story of Schneider Trophy races, 17 3-view line drwgs, S.6B cutaway); The MiG Killers Of Korea by Warren Thompson (F-86 Sabre in Korean War); Fokker's D VII... The Reluctant Razor by Peter M Grosz (3 col profiles, cutaway, 3-view line drwg); Caught By The Wing-Tip by C E "Bud" Anderson (more USAF tip-tow experiments, 4 diagrams) [80 pages] | |
| 18 | April-July 1982 |
| The Bombay: Pegasus Draught, Bristol Dray by Rupert Cooling (Bristol Bombay, cutaway, 3-view line drwg & variants side view line drwgs); Quest For Altitude...The First Generation MiGs (MiG-1, MiG-3, MiG-5, six 3-view line drwg & variants side view line drwgs, 2 pages col drwgs, cutaway); Return of the Razorbacks by Tom Cleaver (P-51A & A-36 restorations in USA); A Seversky in the Spanish War by Gerald Howson (Seversky SEV-3); Stratocruiser...Ending an Airline Era by H A Taylor (Boeing 377/C-97, cutaway, 3-view line drwg, variants side view line drwgs, Guppy 3-view line drwg & variants side view line drwgs); Destination: Disaster by Lennart Berns (SAAB B 18B recovery and restoration, 1 map, Malmem preserved aircraft photos); Estonian Air Power, 1918-1945 by F Gerdessen (5 col profiles, map); Talkback (readers letters: CW-21 additional info, USAAF Spitfire V photo, Junkers F 13 in Finland, Soviet Union and Latvia, Junkers F 13 first prototype fate in Lithuania, Junkers F 13 more info, DC-4 water bombers, Fokker F VII in Japan, Walrus colour profile comments) [80 pages] | |
| 19 | August-November 1982 |
| The Predacious Parasite (Soviet Zveno parasite fighters); The Vulcan...(Almost) A Valediction (Avro Vulcan, 4 col profiles, cutaway, four 3-view line drwgs, variants side view line drwgs, 1 diagram); The Zero Precursor...Mitsubishi's A5M (6 col profiles, 3-view line drwg & variants side view line drwgs, cutaway); Thunderjets in Korea by Warren Thompson (Republic F-84 operations, cutaway); Talkback (readers letters: Portugal Walrus order, BOAC Constellation variant, Canadian Junkers F 13 & Walrus, Fokker F VII additional info, USAAF Spitfire V); The Douglas Commercial Two by Arthur Pearcy (DC-2, 4 col profiles, 3-view line drwg & variants side view line drwgs, cutaway); A Siamese Experimental by Edward M Young (Boripatra bomber, 3-view line drwg) [80 pages] | |
| 20 | December 1982-March 1983 |
| Fighter Biplane Finale... The Falco (Fiat CR.42, 12 col profiles, variants side view line drwgs, 3-view line drwg, cutaway); Junkers Ju 86... The Dimorphous Dessauer (1 page col drwgs, 2 cutaways, variants side view line drwgs, two 3-view line drwgs); Britannia... End of The Bristol Line by H A Taylor (Bristol Britannia, 3-view line drwg, cutaway); Clementine And The Big Mother by Frank Colucci (US Navy SAR helicopters in the Vietnam War); Talkback (readers letters: Australian & Soviet Antarctic aircraft, Soviet MiG-15 pilots in Korea, Fokker D VIII comments, Boeing 377 memories, Estonia update, Finnish Junkers F 13 was Junkers K 53); The American Moth Flies Again by Tom Cleaver (1920s Vulcan American Moth restored in USA); The Saga Of The T VIIIW - The Last Fighting Fokker by Theo Wesselink (Fokker T.VIIIW, 3 col profiles, two 3-view line drwgs, variants side view line drwgs, cutaway); Tom Sopwith And His Aeroplanes 1912-1914 by Tim Mason (pre-WW1 Sopwith aircraft, no drwgs) [80 pages] | |
| 21 | April-July 1983 |
| The Era-Ending Gamecock (Gloster Gamecock, cutaway, 3-view line drwg with variants side view line drwgs, 3 col profiles); The Cosmopolitan Dornier... Last of the Sponson 'Boats (Do 24, 3-view line drwg, cutaway, 2 pages col drwgs); The (Shooting) Stars of Korea by Warren Thompson (Lockheed F-80 in the Korean War); The TBM Avengers of Fredericton by Karl Hayes and Eamon Power (Avenger water bombers in Canada); The Viking... Vickers Commercial One by H A Taylor (Vickers Viking, cutaway, 3-view line drwg); Snowbird Through The Lens by Bill Johnson (photographing the Canadian aerobatic team); Aviatik D I - Austria-Hungary's First Indigenous Fighter by Peter Grosz and George Haddow (Aviatik(Berg) D I, 3 col profiles, three 3-view line drwgs, cutaway); Talkback (readers letters: Mitsubishi A5M comment, F-84 corrections, Junkers F13 corrections corrected, Vulcan memories & preserved example in USA, Estonian pilots in WW2 RAF, Fiat CR.42 in Sweden, Fokker T VIII comments, Douglas DC-2 additional info) [80 pages] | |
| 22 | August-November 1983 |
| Batavia's Big Sticks by Gerald Casius (Martin 139 in Netherlands East Indies, cutaway, map, 6 col profiles); The Colonel's Air Force by Eddy Rubinstein (Confederate Air Force); A Fork-Tailed Swede by Peter Billing (SAAB 21, two 3-view line drwgs, 3 col profiles, cutaway); The Sea-Going Bison by Eric Harlin (Avro Bison fleet spotter, variants side view line drwgs, three 3-view line drwgs, 3 col profiles); The Facile Fiat... Rosatelli's "Italian Fighter" (Fiat CR.32, 1 page col drwgs, cutaway, 3 col profiles, 3-view line drwg); When Boeing Flew The Mails by H A Taylor (Boeing Model 40 and Model 80, two 3-view line drwg, variants side view line drwgs, cutaway); Talkback (readers letters: Ju 86 comments, US Navy SAR comments, DC-2 corrections, Dutch & Spanish Do 24s, Junkers F 13 O-BACC, Belgian Fokker F VIIs, Sopwith Tabloid? in Belgium, Whitley comments, Avro Lincoln 'Aries II', Snowbirds corrections) [80 pages] | |
| 23 | December 1983-Mach 1984 |
| The RAF's Little Indians by Christopher Shores (Curtiss Mohawk IV operations, cutaway); Finland's Fighter Finale by Kari Stenman (VL Myrsky, cutaway, 3 col profiles, 3-view line drwg); SAAB's Jet Debutant by Peter Billing (SAAB J 21R, two 3-view line drwgs, cutaway, 2 col profiles); Airspeed's Elegant Elizabethan by H A Taylor (Airspeed Ambassador, five 3-view line drwgs, cutaway); A Duck Without Feathers by Francis J Allen (Grumman JF/J2F Duck, 4 col profiles, cutaway, 4-view line drwg); Chino Planes of Fame by Frank B Mormillo (US Air Museum collection); Into Battle, Under Tow by B Cornthwaite (British WW2 experiments in towed fighters, 2 diagrams, slipwing aircraft photos); Photographer Extraordinary (RAF aircraft photos 1937-1943); Talkback (readers letters: Gamecock in Finland, Spanish Do 24s, Do 24 in Australia remembered DC-2 in Australia, Fiat CR.42 in Belgium) [80 pages] | |
| 24 | April-July 1984 |
| Folland's (G)natty Fighters by Charles Burnet (Folland Midge & Gnat/Ajeet, five 3-view line drwgs, cutaway, 2 diagrams, 4 col profiles); The Interim Veltro...The Ultimate Castoldi (Macchi C.205V Veltro, cutaway, two 3-view line drwgs, 6 col profiles, pilots notes); The Iberian Arrow by Salvador Mafe Huertas (Hispano Saetta, no drwgs); Die Junkers Grossflugzeuge by John Stroud (Junkers G 38 & Ki-20, 2 col profiles, six 3-view line drwgs, cutaway, variants side view line drwgs); The Fairey IIID In Australia by Keith Isaacs (1 map, 1 page col drwgs); Douglas B-26s in Korea by John E Horne (Invader operations); The MB-3: America's Forgotten Fighter by Peter M Bowers (Thomas-Morse MB-3, cutaway, 3-view line drwg) [80 pages] | |
| 25 | August-November 1984 |
| Vickers' Peer Without Peer by H A Taylor (Vickers Viscount, 3-view line drwg with variants side view line drwgs, cutaway, 3 col profiles); Props And Jets Over Chino by Frank Mormillo (vintage prop & modern jet formations photo essay); France's Forgotten Air War by Edward Young (French Indochina vs Thailand 1940, map, Thai AF Museum photos); Flight Refuelling... The Wartime Story by Brian Gardner (UK & US experiments, 5 diagrams); The Night-Fighting Meteors by Ray Williams (Armstrong Whitworth Meteor, 3-view line drwg with variants side view line drwgs, cutaway, 3 col profiles); The Way To The World's First All-Metal Fighter by Peter M Grosz and Gerard Terry (Junkers J1 to J10 and D I, 9 3-view line drwgs, cutaway); Talkback (readers letters: RAF Mohawk comments, Bristol Bombay memories, Airspeed Ambassador in Australia, Grumman J2F Duck with VMS-3, Austrian production of Albatros D III and Aviatik D I corrections, DC-2 corrections & MLD Do 24 fate correction, early aircraft with ejection seats, Saab J21 & J21 production sites, Do 24 houseboat) [80 pages] | |
| 26 | December 1984-March 1985 |
| The Leticia Conflict by Georg von Rauch (Colombia vs Peru 1932); Bell's Early Hueys and the Vietnam Connection by Bob Chenoweth (UH-1A & UH-1B in Vietnam, cutaway, 1 page col drwgs); Shackleton: Ending An Era by John Chartres (Avro Shackleton, 3 col profiles, cutaway, two 3-view line drwg with variants side view line drwgs); Dutch Mitchells in the Far East by Geoffrey J Thomas (North American B-25s with the ML-KNIL, 1/2 page col drwgs); The Famed Curtiss Hawks by Peter M Bowers (PW-8 to XP-23 and especially P-6 variants, six 3-view line drwg with variants line drwgs, 4 col profiles, cutaway); Brabazon... The Work of the Committees by H A Taylor (British post-war civil aircraft planning, 1 3-view line drwg); Talkback (readers letters: RNZAF roundel on Vulcan, Thomas-Morse MB-3 photos, Portuguese Fairey IIIDs & Puss Moth 'Marao', No.60 Sqn Meteors correction, fate of 117 Sqn Bombay & Ca 133, more RAF B-26 photos) [80 pages] | |
| 27 | March-June 1985 |
| Brabazon... Evolution of the Aircraft by H A Taylor (Bristol Brabazon, cutaway, 3-view line drwg with variants line drwgs); The Anti-Soviet Tupolevs - Finland's Russian Bombers by Kari Stenman (Tupolev SB-2 in Finnish AF, cutaway); Museum Masterpiece by Joseph A Ventolo & Michelle Crean (restoration of Boeing P-12E for USAF museum); The Butcher Bird in Combat W J A 'Tony' Wood (Focke-Wulf Fw 190 combat career, 12 col profiles, variants side view line drwgs, cutaway); Vixen, Venture, Valparaiso - A Forgotten Family of Vickers Biplanes by Mario Canongia Lopes (Vickers biplanes in Portugal and Chile, 1 page col drwgs); Sea Fury, Low And Fast by Bill Johnson (air racing with the Sea Fury); The Nocturnal Nighthawk by Warren Thompson (Douglas P-70 combat career, 3-view line drwg with variants line drwgs); Talkback (readers letters: Seversky P-35 comments, Danish Meteor NF.11 deliveries, Gnat memories, USCG JF-2 Duck correction, RAF Mohawks comment, Fairey IIID in Australia) [80 pages] | |
| 28 | July-October 1985 |
| In Defence of India by D W 'Joe' Warne (Coastal Defence Flights in India and Burma, 1 map); Blenheim - Bristol's Trim Twins (Bristol Blenheim, three 3-view line drwg with variants line drwgs, cutaway, 2 pages col drwgs); Museum Par Excellence (Museu Aeroespacial Brasileiro photos); Conair... Piston Power Against Forest Fires by Robert Stitt (Conair fire bombers); The Era of the Gulls - The Chronicles of the Pulawski Fighter Line (PZL fighters, five 3-view line drwgs with variants line drwgs, cutaway, 6 col profiles); The Audacious Caravelle (Sud Aviation Caravelle, 5 col profiles, cutaway, two 3-view line drwg with variants line drwgs); Ballast For Wiley Post by Gordon S Williams (memories of the last days of Wiley Post); Talkback (readers letters: Fairey Transatlantic Seaplane, Shackleton comments, Viscount in Poland, racing Sea Fury caption correction) [80 pages] | |
| 29 | November 1985 - February 1986 |
| Monino: A Legendary Museum by Carl-Frederick Guest (Russian aviation museum); Canada's Thunder Chicken by Robert S Grant (Noorduyn Norseman, 4 col profiles, two 3-view line drwg with variants line drwgs, cutaway); First of the V-Bombers by Jack Bruce (Vickers Vimy, two 3-view line drwgs, cutaway, 4 col profiles); Army Neptunes... Over South East Asia by Wayne Mutza (US Army RP-2E operations); Der Schnellbomber ...the Saga of the Ju 88 Bomber (Junkers Ju 88, four 3-view line drwg with variants line drwgs, 9 col profiles, cutaway); The Annals of Lithuanian Aviation by C Vistakas (four 3-view line drwgs); Talkback (readers letters: PZL fighters additional info, Portuguese Blenheims & Fairey IIIDs, P-70 radar, Shackleton comments, Meteor correction & photos, Caravelle correction) [80 pages] | |
| 30 | March-June 1986 |
| De Havilland's War Orphan (de Havilland D.H.95 Flamingo, cutaway, 3-view line drwg with variants line drwgs); Huey "Deltas" and "Hotels" by Bob Chenoweth (Bell UH-1D & UH-1H in Vietnam, cutaway, 1 page col drwgs); The Seawolves of HAL-3 by Peter Mersky (US Navy UH-1B operations in Vietnam); The Reporter Reported by Warren Thompson (Northrop F-15A Reporter service career); Swing-Wing Phantom by Mike Spick (McDonnell Douglas F-4 projects, 2 3-view line drwgs, 3 diagrams); The Annals of the "Pencil" - The Story of the First-Generation Dornier Do 17 (cutaway, 2 3-view line drwgs, variants side view line drwgs, 6 col profiles); Recording History Down Rio Way... Brazil's Museu Aeroespacial (museum report); Tante Ju Revival - Que esta loco? by Mark Edwards (Junkers Ju 52 ferry flight Spain to UK) & Canada's Corrugated Classic by Robert S Grant (Ju 52 in Canada, cutaway); Talkback (readers letters: US Army's heaviest aircraft, Waco photo caption error, US Army aircraft with names, Conair correction, Letitia War & Curtiss P-6 comments, Lithuania additional info, Italian corrections, Blenheim in India, Blenheim night fighter kills) [80 pages] | |
| 31 | July-November 1986 |
| Vought's Third Crusader by Jay Miller (Vought XF8U-3, 3-view line drwg); The Fighting Floatplanes of the Japanese Imperial Navy by Yasuho Izawa and Christopher Shores (cutaway, 3 col profiles); Canberras Over Suez by Ken Delve (Canberra in Operation Musketeer, 2-view col drwg, cutaway); A Gathering of Warbirds by Barry Smith (warbirds at Madera, California); Big Bombers From Brooklands - The RAF's Virginia Family by Eric Morgan (Vickers Virginia, two 3-view line drwgs, variants side view line drwgs, cutaway); Portugal's Fighting Thunderjets by Mario Canongia Lopes (Portuguese AF F-84 use, 6 col profiles); From Caudillos to COIN by Dan Hagedorn (Honduras military aviation); Talkback (readers letters: Yugoslav/Italian Do 17, Coastal Defence Flights correction, Vickers Vimy photos, Monino Sopwith Triplane comment, Lithuania comments) [80 pages] | |
| 32 | December 1986-April 1987 |
| Bristol's Fighter Manqué by J M Bruce (Bristol Scout, cutaway, 2 col profiles, 3-view line drwg); Covertly to Cambodia by Wayne Mutza (USAF 20th SOS in Vietnam with UH-1s); Some Damn Good Airplanes by Sue J Bushell (Howard Aircraft Corporation, no drwgs); Los Katiuskas by Luis Garcia Martinez (Tupolev SB-2 in the Spanish Civil War, cutaway, 5 col profiles); Triple Treat Over Chino by Frank Mormillo (3 P-47 restorations to flying condition); Turkey's Hava Müzesi by Robbie Shaw (Turkish aviation museum); Northrop's Failed Fighter (Northrop XP-56, cutaway, 4-view line drwg); The "Black Ponies" of VAL-4 by Peter Myrsky (US Navy OV-10 Bronco operations in Vietnam); Talkback (readers letters: Lithuanian aviation comments, Ju 88 & Do 17 surviving examples in 1945, UH-1 in Vietnam comments, Vickers Virginia photo, Syrian Meteor kill on Canberra) [80 pages] | |
| 33 | May-August 1987 |
| A Study in Contrasts - German Submarine Aircraft Of World War One by Peter M Grosz (Brandenburg W 20 & LFG V 19, 3 3-view line drwgs); From Seventeen to Thirty-Nine - A SAAB Half-Century (history of SAAB aircraft, 11 small 3-view line drwgs, J 29 cutaway, 12 col profiles, J 35 Draken cutaway, J 37 Viggen cutaway - includes unbuilt projects artists impressions); Vickers' Versatile Wellington (8 3-view line drwgs with variants side view line drwgs, cutaway, 6 col profiles); Air Canada's Lockheed Revival by William J Cumming (Lockheed 10A Electra celebration flight for TCA 50th anniversary); A Museum With a Mission by Jeffrey Ethell (Mid-Atlantic Air Museum and recovery of a Northrop P-61); The Blenheim - Triumph and Tragedy by Chris Burkett (first flight or restored Blenheim and it's later crash); Lucky or Not? The Story of the Miles Magister in Turkey by Ole Nikolajsen (Miles Magister and MKEK Ugur in Turkey, no drwgs); Thirty-Three Hours to Fame by Jeffrey Prest (Charles Lindbergh's trans-Atlantic flight, Ryan NYP sectional drwg) [80 pages] | |
| 34 | September-December 1987 |
| The Short Saga of Battle Unit Kuhlmey by Kari Stenman (Luftwafe unit in Finland 1944); Air War Over China by Edward R Hooton (Republic of China Air Force to 1945, 12 col profiles); Commando: A Dove From Curtiss-Wright (C-46 Commando, 9 col profiles, cutaway, 3-view line drwg with variant side view line drwgs); Prelude to "Stand-Off" (Luftwaffe Mistel piggy-back bombers, four 3-view line drwgs, variants side view line drwgs); Convair B-58: Decade of a Delta by Paul Jackson (1 col profile, cutaway, 3-view line drwg); Treasure Trove at Beijing University by Mark Wagner (preserved aircraft collection photos); Talkback (readers letters: more Mid Atlantic Air Museum photos, XP-56 comments, first smooth-skin monocoque fuselage); The Ambitious Amiot (Amiot 350 bomber, two 3-view line drwgs with variant side view line drwgs, cutaway) [80 pages] | |
| 35 | January-April 1988 |
| Chronicle of the Remarkable ANT-6... Progenitor of Blackjack by Alex Vanags-Baginskis (Tupolev ANT-6, two 3-view line drwg with variant side view line drwgs, cutaway); Did Whitehead Fly? by G K Weissenborn (US pioneer Gustave Whitehead's attempts to fly in 1901, 3-view line drwg); MiGs Galore! by Arnold Swanberg (flying MiG warbirds in the USA); Bristol's Fighter Par Excellence by J M Bruce (Bristol F.2B, three 3-view line drwg with variant side view line drwgs, 2 col profiles, cutaway); Skywarrior - The US Navy's "Ultimate" Nuclear Bomber by Norman Polmar (Douglas A-3, 1 col profile, 3-view line drwg, variants side view line drwgs, cutaway); The Brazilian Air War by Jackson Flores (aircraft use in Brazilian civil war of 1932); Talkback (readers letters: Amiot 340 correction, Vickers Wellington in Portugal, Air War Over China corrections); Early Days at El Al by Gordon Levett (birth of the Israeli airline) [80 pages] | |
| 36 | May-August 1988 |
| Southeast Asian "Spad" ...The Skyraider's War by Robert F Dorr (A-1 Skyraider in Vietnam, 5 col profiles, cutaway); The Cadre Creator... Heinkel's Last Fighting Biplane (Heinkel He 51, 2 2-view col drwgs, 4 col profiles, cutaway, 3-view line drwg & variants side view line drwgs); A-20 Havoc: A Douglas "Great" (Boston & Havoc family, two 3-view line drwgs, variants side view line drwgs, cutaway, 2 pages col drwgs); Il-28... A Quadragenerian Ilyushin (cutaway, Il-22 3-view line drwg, 3-view line drwg, 7 col profiles); Signal Corps Number 2: Building a Curtiss Biplane - 75 Years On by Michelle Crean and Joseph Ventolo (USAAS's first Curtiss biplane); Portugal's "Ginas" by Mario Canongia Lopes (Fiat G.91 in Portugal, 1 page col drwgs); Talkback (readers letters: Whitehead comments, XP-56 accident, C-46 in US Coast Guard, Rich International C-46 colour comments, Italians in 1930s China, Air War Over China additional info) [80 pages] | |
| 37 | September-December 1988 |
| Fairey's First Fleet Fighter by Ray Sturtivant (Fairey Flycatcher, cutaway, 3-view line drwg); Ouragan: Ancestor of Rafale by Paul Jackson (Dassault Ouragan, 3-view line drwg, cutaway, 4 col profiles); Das Fliegende Auge... Focke-Wulf's Versatile Owl (Fw 189 Uhu, 1 2-view col drwg, 7 col profiles, cutaway, cockpit drawing); L'Aviation Royale Khmere - The First 15 Years of Cambodian Military Aviation by Albert Grandolini (Cambodian Air Force); The Veterans of Yogyakarta by Robbie Shaw (Indonesian aviation museum); Resurrection of a Norseman by Wanda Courtwright (restoration of a UC-64A); Farewell, Delta Dart by Bob McIntyre (flying the Convair F-106A, cutaway); Whatever Happened to Amelia Earhart? by Roy Blay (1 map); Talkback (readers letters: A-3 Skywarrior comments, wartime aircraft force-landed in Portugal, USS Franklin D Roosevelt in Vietnam war, B-58 corrections, Whitehead comments) [80 pages] | |
| 38 | January-April 1989 |
| In Praise of the Consolidated PBY... The Magnificat (PBY Catalina, three 3-view line drwg & variants side view line drwgs, cutaway, 3 col profiles); Biafran Babies... the five-aircraft air force by Lennert Berns (SAAB MFI-9Bs in Biafran war); Museum Down Under by Tony Holmes (Museum of the RAAF Association in Perth); Stratojet - Progenitor of a Dynasty by Lindsay Peacock (Boeing B-47, 1 page col drwgs, cutaway, 3-view line drwg & variants side view line drwgs); Sunderlands Up The Yangtze by Ken Delve (the Amethyst incident); Airborne in the D VII by H J van Overvest (flying a Fokker classic, cutaway, 2 pages col drwgs); Heinkel's High-speed Hoaxer - The Annals of the He 100 (Heinkel He 100, 11 col profiles, 3-view line drwg & variants side view line drwgs); The Mynarski Lancaster by Bill Cumming (restoration of a Lancaster in Canada); Defeat by Design by John A Chionchio (WW1 Albatros structural failure, several diagrams); Talkback (readers letters: Dutch A-20 use, Blenheims in Malaya, Air War Over China additional info, Cambodia AF additional info, A-3 article error: wrong B-29, Indonesian A6M Zero false markings, Soviet Boston use) [80 pages] | |
| 39 | May-August 1989 |
| Horten Exotica ...to the H IX and beyond (Horten aircraft, 10 3-view line drwgs, cutaway); The Magnificat: In Praise of the Consolidated PBY Part Two (Consolidated PBY Catalina, 1 page col drwgs); The Unloved Albemarle by Ray Williams (Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle, two 3-view line drwgs, 1 col profile, cutaway); Singapore... Short's Last Biplane 'Boat (Short Singapore, cutaway, 1 col profile, 3-view line drwg); How They Searched For Amelia Earhart by Francis D Foley (account of the US Navy search operation); The Kbely Collection by Mark Wagner (Czech aviation museum + Airshow at Kbely short report); Balkan Interlude - The Bulgarian Air Arm in WWII (1 col 2-view drwg, 6 col profiles, three 3-view line drwgs); Talkback (readers letters: Albatros D V wing structural failure, US Army & Navy P-2 Neptunes in Vietnam, RAF Catalinas, surviving SAAB 17 in Denmark) [80 pages] | |
| 40 | September-December 1989 |
| The Hasting... Last of the Transport Line by Paul Jackson (Handley Page Hastings, cutaway, 3-view line drwg & variants side view line drwgs); Heinkel's Nocturnal Predator ...The He 219 (two 3-view line drwg & variants side view line drwgs, cutaway, 1 page col drwgs); Poland's Store of Treasures by Bob Ogden (Polish aviation museums); Latin Harpoons - The Lockheed PV-2 in Brazilian and Portuguese Service by Mario Canongia Lopes (1 page col drwgs); Fairey's Stalwart Swordfish (11 col profiles, 3-view line drwg & variants side view line drwgs, cutaway); Talkback (readers letters: Israeli Ouragans, A-3 Skywarrior on USS Franklin D Roosevelt in Vietnam war, Soviet PBY-1, PBY-5A cruise speeds, Fokker D VII restoration & comments, B-47 corrections, NACA B-47s, Niagara Falls error); Bookscan (book reviews) [80 pages] | |
| 41 | Midsummer 1990 |
| Donald Douglas' First Successes: DT and DWC by Rene Francillon (Douglas World Cruiser family, 3-view line drwg, cutaway, 1 col profile); The "Tell Two" Statojets by Robert S Hopkins (USAF EB-47E(TT) intelligence operations); Stratofortress... The Big One From Boeing by Robert F Dorr (Boeing B-52, 5 col profiles, cutaway, 3-view line drwg and variants side view line drwgs); Secret Luftwaffe: German Military Aviation Build-up Between the Wars by Lennart Andersson (aircraft used lists); The Mississippi Marvel by Jos Heyman (Mississippi University XV-11A & XAZ-1, no drwgs, US Army designation system explained); Re 2000: The "State of the Art" Reggiane (4 pages col drwgs, 3-view line drwg, cutaway); Talkback (readers letters: He 100 comments, Hastings comments, Brazilian Air War comments, Catalina in Brazil & Portugal, Portuguese PV-2 & SB2C-5 photos, Soviet Catalinas, FAW-7 Catalina operations, Albemarle comments, Kbely Museum WW1 aircraft, EKA-3B cutaway criticisms, Cambodia/Khmer update, Swordfish memories, correct spelling of Bowmoor flying boat base); Bookscan (book reviews) [80 pages] | |
| 42 | 1991 |
| Farnborough's First: The Story of de Havilland's S.E.1 by Philip Jarrett (2-view line drwg, side view line drwg, 3-view line drwg & variant line drwgs); Vautour - A Classic of Compromise by Jean-Jacques Petit (Sud Est Vautour, 2 col profiles, cutaway); Singapore Stand-By by Ken Delve (Short Singapore deployment in 1937 to Malta & Algeria, 1 map); Operation Bolo by John T Smith (Vietnam War USAF anti-MiG operation); Avro Anson: The Chronicles of 'Faithful Annie' by Ray Sturtivant (3 col profiles, cutaway); How to Fly a Citroen! by Mark Edwards (car on a Boeing 707 advertising gimmick); Airfield Development by Ken Delve (RAF airfields development history); Bookscan (book reviews); Talkback (readers letters: secret Luftwaffe additional info, Italian contribution to secret Luftwaffe, B-52 comments, Douglas DT-2C in Norway, RNZAF Hastings comment) [80 pages, now A4 size] | |
| 43 | May 1991 |
| What Became of Louis Strange? by Peter Hearn (career of classic WW1 author); Neutral Warriors - The Morane Saulnier MS.406 in Swiss Service by Peter Gunti (D-3800 family in Switzerland, cutaway, 3-view line drwg); BOAC Flying Boats at War by Lettice Curtis (memoirs of a BOAC flying boat pilot, 2-view col drwg); Turboméca - European Power-House by David Godfrey (French gas turbine company); A Demon Possessed by Mike Spick (McDonnell F3H Demon, variants side view line drwgs, cutaway); Babies, Kittens and Griffons by David Collyer (PV aircraft at the Isle of Grain Naval Aircraft Experimental Depot, 1 3-view line drwgs); German Magpie by Rolf Wurster (Pützer Elster, 3-view line drwg); Armstrong Whitworth 'Paper Planes' by Ray Williams (unbuilt aircraft projects, many 1-view, 2-view and 3-view line drwgs); Talkback (readers letters: Vautour photo, Anson with canon, Greek Ansons) [80 pages] | |
| 44 | November 1991 |
| The Spirit of Saint-Exupery by Hugh Murland (career of the famous French pilot); Mapping By Monospar by Matthew Wright (use of a General Aircraft Monospar in New Zealand); Can-Car - Canada's Largest by David Kemp (history of Canadian Car and Foundry Company Ltd, CCF); The 'Other' Airlift by Gordon Levett (1948 airlift from Czechoslovakia to Israel, 1 map); The Pipit's Tail by Philip Jarrett (Parnall Pipit, 2-view line drwg); First Generation by John Downey (first generation jet trainers comparison, 4 col profiles, 4 3-view line drwgs with variants side view line drwgs); Who was 'Dinghy' Young? by Ray Leach (career of 617 Sqn bomber pilot Sqn Ldr Henry Young); In A 'New' Country by Hans-Heiri Stapfer (Army Museum in Dresden); Australian '504s by Colin Owers (RAAF's founding aircraft: Avro 504, cutaway); Junkers Two-Seaters by Lennart Andersson (inter-war Junkers warplanes); Talkback (readers letters: Armstrong Whitworth Paper Planes comments & model photos, Louis Strange Sea Hurricane identity, BOAC Flying Boats comments, F3H Demon comment) [80 pages] | |
| 45 | March-May 1992 |
| China Diary by Stuart Howe (RCAF DH Mosquito pilot in Nationalist China, 1 diagram); Day of the 'Top Guns' by John T Smith (May 10, 1972 - greatest number of air-air victories in Vietnam War, 2 maps); Turkey... or Thoroughbred? by Mike Spick (early MiG-21 development, variants side view line drwgs, 3 col profiles, cutaway); Junkers Two-Seaters Part 2 by Lennnart Andersson (inter-war Junkers warplanes + additional information on subjects in Part 1); Adios Muchachas! by Roger Soupart (DHC-4 Caribou retires from Spanish service, 1 col profile, 1 3-view line drwg); Taylorcraft - A Complex Classic by J M G Gradidge (short company history); Taylorcraft - A Modern Classic by Paul Ochadlick (visit to present day Taylorcraft company); A Question of Capacity by Brian Cocks (Caudron racer and fighter Renault engines mystery, 1 3-view drwgs); Curtiss Types in Latin America by Dan Hagedorn (inter-war aircraft sales, 3 col profiles); Talkback (readers letters: Fokker S.14 comments, East German insignia correction, possible sale of Mexican P-47s to Israel, Can-Car Trainers to Mexico, DHC-4T Turbo-Caribou photo, corrections to MS.406 cutaway, Tzukit photos, 33 ER AdlA use of Saint-Exupery insignia) [80 pages] | |
| 46 | June-August 1992 |
| To Join The Allies: The Mexican Expeditionary Force by Santiago Flores (Mexican fighter unit in Europe WW2); Zimbabwe's Treasure by Brian Connolly (Gweru museum); Swords Into Ploughshares by James Ritchie Grant (Bristol Type 28 Tourer and early Australian bush flying); Starfighter - The Early Years by Mike Spick (F-104 as an interceptor, 3 col profiles, 2 side view line drwgs, cutaway); Early Days On Argus by Jim Halley (HMS Argus aircraft carrier); 38 to 1 - The Brewster 239 in Finnish Service by Kari Stenman (Brewster 239 Buffalo, map, 1 col profile, 3-view line drwg); The World's Second - North America's First by William Mellberg (Avro Canada C102 Jetliner, 3-view line drwg); Foremost Four by Norman Gillman (the Royal Navy's first 4 aviators, 1 Sopwith Camel col profile); Pedigree Fortress by Nick Veronico (history of the B-17 at March Field Museum); The All Metal Airship by Patrick Abbott (airship development to 1930s, 2 diagrams); Talkback (readers letters: CCF additions, CCF CBY-3 photo, Friends of Saint-Exupery society, MiG-21 corrections, DHC-4A Caribou correction) [80 pages] | |
| 47 | September-November 1992 |
| Forgotten Founder by Francois Prins (Sir David Henderson - paved the way for the creation of the RAF); Master of the Oceans by David G Powers (career of Edwin C Musick - Pan Am flying-boat captain); Alpine Auntie by Peter Gunti (Swiss surviving Ju 52s still flying, 1 col profile, 1 3-view line drwg); Alpine Avenger by Peter Gunti (D-3802/D-3803 fighters, 3-view line drwg, 2 side view line drwgs); Australia's First Museum by Colin Owers (fates of WW1 aircraft shipped to Australia); A Noble Twin by John Silvester (Percival Prince, 1 col profile, 3-view line drwg, cutaway); Santiago Relics by Peter Steinemann (aviation preservation in Chile); Honing The Breed by Mike Spick (later MiG-21 development, variants side view line drwgs, 4 col profiles); Long Range Weathermen by Paddy Porter (RAF weather recce flights from WW2); Wilderness Commuter by Robert S Grant (de Havilland DH.61 Giant Moth in Canada); Talkback (readers letters: HMS Argus photo, Mosquito training in Canada memories, Mexican fighter unit additional info, Curtiss Types in Latin America comments) [80 pages] | |
| 48 | December 1992-February 1993 |
| 'Thunderscreech' - Republic's XF-84H turbo-fighter by Ed Davies (3-view line drwg; Supermarine Origins: Pemberton-Billing Flying-Boats by Philip Jarrett (2-view line drwg); Birdmen of British Columbia by Peter Corley-Smith (pioneer aviators around Vancouver); First Across 'Oz' by James Ritchie Grant (B.E.2 flight across Australia, map); Air Superiority: A Case Study - 122 Wing by John T Smith (RAF Tempest V equipped 122 Wing 1944-45, 5 col profiles, cutaway); Medway Dynasty: Shorts at Rochester by Philip MacDougall (Sunderland III cutaway); A Tale of Two Tails by Daniel Ford (Short SB.5, 1 col profile, 4-view line drwg); Rival To The B-29 by Alan Crouchman (Convair B-32 Dominator, 1 col profile, 3-view line drwg, variants side view line drwgs); Greek Guardians by Robbie Shaw (preserved aircraft in Greece); Latvia's Little Hawk by Chuck Davis (VEF Irbitis I-16 fighter, 4-view scale drawing, 4 tone profiles); Fleet's Final Fling by Bill Cumming (Fleet Model 80 Canuck); First Encounter by Jerzy B Cynk (Poland vs Luftwaffe, 1 September 1939); Signed by Orville Wright by Francis Joseph (career of pioneer Delbert Koerner); Talkback (readers letters: Pan Am Fokker F.VII correction, 521 & 202 Sqn weather flights, David Henderson comments, MiG-21 comments, Caudron aircraft additional info, AE46 photo a DH.50 not Bristol Tourer) [80 pages] | |
| 49 | March-May 1993 |
| In and Over 'The Drink': Experimental Work at the Isle of Grain by David Collyer; Improbably Inflexible by Peter Cooksley (Beardmore Inflexible); Poland's MiGs - The Story of the Lim Family by Piotr Butowski (MiG-15 & MiG-17 in Poland, 14 variants side view line drwgs, 3-view line drwg, cutaway); Mexico and the Dauntless by Santiago Flores (A-24B Dauntless in Mexico, 1 col profile, 3-view line drwg); Indonesia's Armed Forces Museum by Jim Grant; The FAA's Flying History Machine by Ed Davies (FAA flight checking service DC-3 flying memorial); Flamant - Dassault's Workhorse by Rene J Francillon (1 col profile, 3-view line drwg, 6 variants side view line drwgs, 1 project 3-view line drwg); 'Super' Lightning: Lockheed's XP-49 by William Jesse (3-view line drwg); Heinemann's Short-Lived 'Ford' by Mike Spick (Douglas F4D Skyray & F5D Skylancer, cutaway, 5 diagrams, two 4-view line drwgs); Guiseppe's Inspiration: The Bellanca Cruisair Family by Mike Gradidge (Bellanca Cruisair); Talkback (readers letters: 122 Wing Tempests correction & Typhoon use, Delbert Koerner error, Mexican Dauntless additional info, First Encounter comment, XF-84H comments, Santiago Chile museum correction, Short Mayo composite comment, 521 Sqn Spitfire comment, Bismark Catalina comment, icing trials Hastings) [80 pages] | |
| 50 | May-July 1993 |
| Death of the Baron by T F Neil (Manfred von Richthofen, 1 map); Argentina's Demobbed Fortresses by Scott Thompson (civil use of B-17 in Argentina); Wirraway: Australia's Warlike Trainer by Colin Owers (CAC Wirraway, 2 3-view line drwgs, 1 col profile); Far From Standard by Fran B Mormillo (restored Standard J-1); Italian Excellence - A History of the Macchi/Aermacchi Dynasty by Roy Braybrook (MC.200 col profile & 3-view line drwg & cutaway, MC.205V col profile & 3-view line drwg, MB.339 col profile & 3-view line drwg); The Jet Age - Gloster Meteor in Israeli Service by Shlomo Aloni (3 col profiles & unit badges); Stop-Gap Fighter - The LUSAC Series by Colin Owers (Le Pere LUSAC fighter series, 3-view line drwg); Finland's Frontline - The Bf 109 in Finnish Service by Kari Stenman (Bf 109G use, 1 col profile); USAF Armament Museum - Eglin AFB Florida by Bill Taylor (museum visit); SEAC's Liberators by Jim Fail (RAF B-24 Liberators against Japan, 2 col profiles & fin markings); No Rope or Railing - Canada's Curtiss HS-2Ls by Robert S Grant (use in northern Ontario); Talkback (readers letters: Bismark Catalina again; Percival Prince in Brazil, XF-84H flag error, Inflexible photo caption error, Beardmore company additional info, SBLim-2 photo, HMS Argus more photos, Hansa Brandenburg W.33 photo) [80 pages] | |
| 51 | August-October 1993 |
| PB's Dream Machines by Philip Jarrett (Noel Pemberton Billing aircraft projects, 1 3-view line drwg, 2 2-view line drwgs, 1 side view line drwg, 1 diagram); A Step Too Far... by Arnaud Boxman (Baade BB-152 jet airliner, no drwgs); Ascent - Tail-First by Francis Allen (Curtiss-Wright XP-55 Ascender, 3-view line drwg); Yugoslavia's Naval Moths by Vladimair Isaic (DH.60 Moth in Yugoslav Navy, 2 col profiles); 'Primrose' and Friends: The Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer by Nick Hemming (1 col profile, 2 3-view line drwgs, 1 2-view line drwg, 1 side view line drwg); Rivolto's Guardians by Mauro Ottogalli (Italian base gate guardians, photo feature); Italian Excellence: Macchi/Aermacchi Pictorial (yellow photos now b+w & unbuild projects photos); Canada's Mailmen by Clarence Simonsen (168 Sqn RCAF flying mail across the Atlantic, colour insignia drwg); Aeroengineer Extraordinary by Nicholas Thornton (career of Henry Royce); Electronic Warrior by Mike Badrocke (Douglas F3D Skyknight, cutaway, 3-view line drwg, XF6D-1 side view line drwg); Long-Legged Fairey by Peter Cooksley (Fairey Long Range Monoplanes, 3-view line drwg, variant side view line drwg); A Meaning In The Tail: Bomber Command Tail Markings by Martin Giles (RAF WW2 formation markings, 3 pages col drwgs); Dornier's Flying Boat Dynasty by Ken Wixey (history of Dornier flying-boat development); SEAC's Liberators: The Sequel by Jim Frail (additional tabular info & photos); Talkback (readers letters: SEAC Liberators comment, Polish MiG/Lim exports, Brandenburg W.33 caption correction, CAC Wirraway additional info, Mexican A-24 Dauntless corrections & Brazilian A-31/A-35 Vengeance use, XP-55 photo, RCAF B-17F photo) [80 Pages] | |
| 52 | Winter 1993 |
| Neutral Allies: The Royal Egyptian Air Force in World War Two by David Nicolle; The Ultimate Escort? McDonnell XF-85 Goblin by Francis Allen (exploded view, 3-view scale drwg); Gull Reborn by Vincent Jacobs (Percival Gull Four restoration); Brisbane's Heritage by Francois Prins (Brisbane airport Fokker F.VII & Queensland museum); Cyclone 5: The Canberra in Rhodesian/Zimbabwean Service by Micheal Hammence (3 col profiles); Of 'Cygnus' & 'Tagboard': The era of the Lockheed A-12 by Paul Crickmore (early days of the SR-71); Finland's 'Elephant': A Norseman's Life by Robert S Grant (Noorduyn Norseman in Finland); Double-Headed Arrow: Dornier Do 335 'Pfiel' by Francois Prins (Go 9 3-view line drwg, 1 col profile, 3-view line drwg + variant side view line drwg); Testing The Victor by Don Middleton (HP Victor test flying, cutaway, 3 diagrams); Canada's Forest Scout: The Canadian Vickers Vedette by William Jesse (flying boat use); Talkback (readers letters: SEAC Liberators Canadian geography errors & additional info, RCAF B-25 Mitchell use, more SEAC Liberator comments, Fairey Long Range Monoplane photo, BB-152 comments) [80 pages] | |
| 53 | Spring 1994 |
| Albatross - de Havilland's Long-Legged Beauty by Ken Wixey (DH.91 Albatross, 3-view line drwg + variant side view line drwg, cutaway); Counter-Air: 2nd Air Commando Group in Burma & Thailand by Edward Young (USAAF 2nd Air Commando Group in WW2, 1 2-view col drwg); Return of the 'Bull': Stearman 4E Junior Speedmail by Joe Cupido (restored vintage aircraft photos); 'Bat' Perspectives by Jeremy Collins (photos of Tu-2S in Polish service, 3-view line drwg); Pioneering Spirit: The QANTAS Story by Francois Prins (airline history); Spain's 'Flat Irons': The Mirage III Era by Salvador Mafe Huertas (Dassault Mirage III in Spanish service, unit insignia col drwgs); 'Cyclone 5': The Canberra in Rhodesian/Zimbabwean Service Part 2 by Micheal Hammence (2 diagrams, 1 map); Erratic Their Course: The Flight of Parer and McIntosh by Peter Cooksley (DH.9 flight to Australia in 1920); Fokker's Fifth: The C.V Multi-Role Biplane by Colin Owers (Fokker C.V family, 1 page col drwgs, 1 page variants side view line drwgs, 2 3-view line drwgs); Shark With No Teeth: The Story of the Douglas A2D Skyshark by Francis Allen (1 diagram, 3-view line drwg); Sword Into Ploughshare: Australia's Ceres Crop-Duster by James Ritchie Grant (CAC CA-28 Ceres, 3-view line drwg); Talkback (readers letters: USAF Armament Museum F-105 unit error, XP-55 name, Skyknight designation confusion, MiG-21SMT photo & comments, Dornier Flying Boats comments, Victor Tankers refuelling trials, Dornier Flying Boat hull design comments, Brazilian A-31 & A-35 Vengeance, Portuguese Dornier Wal flight across Atlantic, Portuguese DH.60G Moth & Fleet F.10 use) [80 pages] | |
| 54 | Summer 1994 |
| Last Of The Line - The Saro Skeeter by Peter London; A Pair Of 'Swamptons' - The Supermarine Southampton in RAAF Service by Colin Owers (3-view line drwg); Per Ardua Ad Harrier - The V/STOL Jet Fighter Saga by Roy Braybrook (V/STOL aircraft programmes of the West to 1972, 15 3-view line drwgs, Harrier GR.3 cutaway, 2 diagrams); Staying Power - The Bristol Blenheim in Finnish Service by Kari Stenman; Boscombe Down Memories - Reflections of an A&AEE Test Pilot by Tom Neil; Too Good To Be True? A Personal View of the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow by Bill Mellberg (3-view line drwg); Flying Crane - RAF Airlift Operations with the Bristol Belvedere by Peter Green; Grumman's Night Cats - The Grumman Hellcat, Tigercat and Bearcat in the Night Fighting Role by Mike Spick (3 col profiles); Pioneering Spirit - The QANTAS Story Part 2 by Francois Prins; Pioneering Museum - QANTAS Park by Francois Prins (QANTAS museum); Flightless MiGs - MiG OKB Jet Fighter Projects by Piotr Butowski (no drwgs); Talkback (readers letters: Victor Test Flying correction, first crossing of Mediterranean error, Spanish Mirage III comments, A2D Skyshark comments, Danish Fokker C.V correction, Fokker C.V additional info) [80 pages] | |
| 55 | Autumn 1994 |
| Chinese 'Junks': Junkers Aircraft Exports to China 1925-1940 by Lennart Andersson (1 map); Springbok Jet Age: The Gloster Meteor III in SAAF Service by Ivan Spring; Canadian Prince by Robert S Grant (Sea Prince restored in Canada); Breaking New Ground: The Canadian Government's First Civil Aerodrome by William Jesse (Saint-Hubert airport history); Parnall's Final Fling: The Parnall Type 381 Gunnery Research Aircraft by Philip Jarrett (unbuilt project, 3-view line drwg, 2 artists impressions); Last Of The Line: Boeing's XF8B-1 Multi-Purpose Fighter by Francis Allen (3-view line drwg); On The Wings Of A Klemm: Flying America's Unique Klemm Kl 35D by Steve Bohill-Smith (flying a restored vintage Klemm); Arab-Italian Fighters: Fiats and Macchis in Egyptian and Syrian Service 1948-1956 by David Nicolle (Fiat G.55 & Macchi C.205, 2 col profiles, 2 3-view line drwgs); Expendable To Indispensible: The Story of a Classic Turbojet - the Viper by Tom Smith (Viper engine use, Jindivik cutaway, Jindivik variants drwgs, 14 3-view line drwgs of aircraft users); Called to Arms: The Percival Sea Prince and Pembroke by John Silvester (1 page col drwgs, 3-view line drwg); Airline At War: British Airways Goes To War by Alan Wood (British Airways in WW2); When The Paperwork Triumphed! The First Civil Aircraft Registered in Australia by James Ritchie Grant; Talkback (readers letters: Miles Marathon crash correction, RAF at Hmawbi comments, Avro Arrow comments, Victor testing memories, Swampton photo, Australian geography corrections, more Victor testing comments) [80 pages] | |
| 56 | Winter 1994 |
| From 'Hun Bravo' to Unsung F-107: NA-212, Ultimate F-100 & Last North American Fighter by Francis Allen (3-view line drwg, diagram, cutaway); On Three Fronts: Romania's Aircraft Industry During World War Two by Mark Axworthy (2 3-view line drwgs, 10 side view line drwgs, IAR-80/81 variants side view line drwgs); On Parade by William Heron (rare colour photos of Battle of Britain Week static display in 1949); Brazil -1 , U-199 -0: Brazil's Anti-Submarine War by Ricardo Bonalume Neto (Brazilian ASW in WW2, 1 diagram, 2 col profiles, 1 map); Enduring Gem: SAAB's Long Serving Safir Trainer by Daniel Ford (SAAB 91 Safir, 3-view line drwg); Island Hopper: The Spartan Aircraft Cruiser Tri-Motor by Malcolm V Lowe; First to 'Oz': UK to Australia Flights, 1919 by James Ritchie Grant; Italian Tandem: Fiat G.46 Survivors by Ugo Vicenzi (3-view line drwg); 'Tatra' Eagles: The Slovak Air Force in Combat, 1942-1945 by Jiri Rajlich and Jiri Sehnal (1 map); The 'Blue Box' Gets Floats: Edwin Link and the Aquatrainer by William Jesse (Link trainer variant); Island Pioneers: Aircraft Production Origins on the Isle of Wight by Peter London; Feedback (readers letters: first across Mediterranean & Bristol Fighter G-AUEB with QANTAS, Jet Provost comments, CF-105 Arrow comments, Boeing XF8B-1 landing gear & Sea Prince colours, SEAC Liberators, Hanriot HD-1 in Ecuador photo, Spitfire MT818/G-AIDN new home, CF-105 more comments) [80 pages] | |
| 57 | Spring 1995 |
| It Mayfly... Then Again...: The Remarkable Seddon Mayfly Steel-tube Biplane by Philip Jarrett; Year of the 'Mule': Avia S 199 Mezecs in Israeli Service by Shlomo Aloni; Conquistador Turned Merchant: Consolidated's PB2Y Coronado by Daniel Ford (3-view line drwg & variants side view line drwgs); NASA Numbers: A Pictorial History of the NACA/NASA Test Fleet Numbering System by Arthur Pearcy; Sweeping Change: Grumman's Panther and Cougar Family by Ken Wixey (F9F history, 2 cutaways, 2 pages col drwgs, two 3-view line drwgs); Born of Experience: Second Generation Jet Trainers by John Downey (7 3-view line drwgs, 1 col profile); French Mustangs: The Armée de l'Air and the F-6 by Alain J Pelletier (Recce P-51 Mustang in French service, 2 col profiles); 'Bears' in the Air: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Air Service by William F Mellberg (RCMP); All-Russian 'Boats: Grigorovich Flying-Boats 1913-1918 by Andrei Alexandrov (two 3-view line drwgs); Macchis Across The Med: Macchi C.202/205s in Egyptian Service by Gianni Cattaneo; Talkback (readers letters: Brazilian U-Boat kills comment, Romanian Fleet aircraft, German deliveries to Romanian & Slovakia, SAAB Safir, Brazilian Catalinas, Jet Provost comments, Blenheim restoration video) [80 pages] | |
| 58 | July-August 1995 |
| Arctic Ace: Boris Safonov - Twice Hero of the Soviet Union by Ray Leach; First of the Wide-Bodies? The Cunliffe-Owen OA-1 by Peter London (3-view line drwg); From SP to Gamma: The Italian Designs of Ottorino Pomilio by Colin Owers (3-view line drwg); If I Cannot Walk.. I Will Fly! Lt Frank Alberry DCM - Australian One-Legged Air Ace by Jim Prendergast (2-view col drwg); Upwardly Mobile: Dassault's VTOL Mirage IIIV by John Fricker (3-view line drwg); Splashing & Spitting: The Buhl Airsedan in Canada by Robert S Grant; Double Fury: The Two-Seat Hawker Sea Furies by Daniel Ford (Sea Fury, 3-view line drwg, 2 side view line drwgs, 4 col profiles); American Ambitions: Imperial War Museum Duxford's American Air Museum; Crusader III: 'The Best They Ever Cancelled!' by Mike Badrocke (Vought F8U-3 Crusader III, cutaway, 5 3-view line drwgs, side view line drwg); Blue 'Barge': A Sea Prince Shows its Colours by Richard L Ward (Royal Navy VIP aircraft colours); Guardians Of The Frontier: No.39 Squadron in the North West Frontier by Ken Delve (1 col profile); Andean Hanriot by Gianni Cattaneo (Hanriot in Ecuador, more info); Wigram Pictorial: The Royal New Zealand Air Force Museum by Peter R Arnold; Tragic Connection: Sacadura Cabral and the Fokker T.III by Mario Canongia Lopes (Fokker T.III Floatplane in Portuguese Service, 3-view line drwgs); Five Star Runabout: A Pictorial Study of Monty's Messengers by Peter Green (Miles Messenger used by General Montgomery); Almost Resurrection: A tale of engine failure, minefields and endurance by David G Collyer (WW1 RNAS search and rescue mission); Round-Out (readers letters: civil registration in Australia, P-47 sale to Israel, Israeli Avia S 199 comments, Klemm Kl 35 in Sweden, Cunliffe-Owen Concordia photo, Fiat G.46 survivors update, Flying Flea archive, Gloster Meteor in New Zealand & Australia, QANTAS & Australian geography, Slovakia vs Hungary comments, F9F Panther carrier correction, Grigorovitch M.9 photo) [80 pages] | |
| 59 | September-October 1995 |
| Bulldog Breed: The Bristol Bulldog in RAAF Service by Colin Owers (1 3-view line drwg); Strike Rivals: The ones that 'lost' when the TSR.2 'won' by Tony Buttler (BAC TSR-2 Rivals, 15 2 & 3-view line drwgs); Flixton Pictorial: Norfolk & Suffolk Aviation Museum (photo feature); More Mules: Continuing the Saga of the Israeli Avias S.199s by Shlomo Aloni; Sheffield in Sight!: Argentine Trackers & Neptunes at War by Salvador Mafe Huertas (Falklands conflict operations, 2 col profiles, 1 map); Hub of the First USAAF: Station 103, Brampton by Paddy Porter (1st Air Division B-17 base history, 1 map, 2 B-17 col profiles); George & Jobling's Aeroplane: A Tyneside Pioneer Flying Machine by Richard Robson; Los Vampiros Mexicanos: Mexico's First Steps in the Jet Age - de Havilland Vampires by Santiago Flores; Les Lancasters: French Lancasters and a Special Survivor by Ken Ellis (Surviving Avro Lancasters from Aeronavale service); Quick Return: Fighter Recce Meteors in South Africa by Ivan Spring; Splashing and Spitting: The Buhl Airsedan in Canada, concluded by Robert S Grant; Wings to the Cape: The First Trans-Africa Flights by John Godwin (1 map); Martin-Baker's Aeroplanes: The aircraft that gave way to the world-beating 'bang-seats' by Peter London (4 3-view line drwgs, MB.5 cutaway); Romanian Round-Out (readers letters on Romanian aviation in WW2) [80 pages] | |
| 60 | November-December 1995 |
| Approaches to Powered Flight: The 'learning curve' facing the pioneers by Philip Jarrett; And Never the Twain...: BV 238 and FGP 227 - Two Frustrated 'Boats by Daniel Ford (Blohm und Voss BV 238 & FGP 227 scale version, two 3-view line drwgs, 2 variants side view line drwgs); Bearing the Brunt: Thirty Years of MiG-17 Service with the Egyptian & Syrian Air Forces by David Nicolle and Lon Nordeen (cutaway, 3-view line drwg); A Far from Lame Duck: Pilatus P-3, Sire to a Trainer Dynasty by Peter M Gunti (1 col profile, 3-view line drwg); Short, But Gallant: The Career of the Finnish Junkers Ju 88s by Kari Stenman; Bug-Eyed Monster: The Douglas Model 415A the first Globemaster and DC-7 by Nicholas M Williams (C-74 Globemaster, 1 diagram, 3-view line drwg); Research Rivals: The Response to Specification ER.134T by Tony Buttler (Bristol Type 188 rivals, 12 3-view line drwgs, 1 col profile, 1 sectional drwg); "Especially...The D.VII...": The post-1918 career of the Fokker D.VII Part One by Colin Owers (3 col profiles, 1 3-view line drwg); Spanning the Empire: Shorts' Empire Flying-Boats by Ken Wixey (Short S.23 'C' Class, 1 3-view line drwg); Round Out (readers letters: Martin-Baker MB.6, MB.3 photo, Balzac and Mirage IIIV photo montage, Monty's Messengers markings comment, Quick Return Meteor photo comments, Parer and McIntosh comments, Brazilian Catalinas, RAAF Bulldogs, Argentine SP-2H artwork correction, Musee de l'Air Lancaster restoration, Mexican Vampires correction, Mexican A-24s photo & comment) [80 pages] | |
| 61 | January-February 1996 |
| First Steps - An Airline Career in the 1930s by Alan Woods (Radio operator in 1930s British airlines); A Tug in the Wrong Direction? Monitor - A double blow to Miles by Daniel Ford (Miles Monitor, 3-view line drwg); Jambocks over Italy: Brazilian P-47s Combat Operations 1944-45 Part One by Jackson Flores (2 col profiles); Echoes and Kapponi: F-86 Sabres in Italian Service by Riccardo Niccoli (Italian Air Force F-86E(M) & F-86K Sabres); From Fishermen's Bend... The Aircraft of the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation by Joe Vella (8 3-view line drwgs); Civilised Savages: The Surviving Skywriter SE.5s by Ken Ellis and Peter Green (Major Savage's Skywriting SE.5As, 1 col profile); Willing Tracker: The Grumman S2F Tracker in Canadian Service Part One by Robert M Stitt (S-2 Tracker, cutaway, 3-view line drwg); "Especially...The D.VII...": The post-1918 career of the Fokker D.VII Part Two by Colin Owers (5 col profiles), 1 page variants line drwgs); Futile Rivals: F.155T - The Quest for "An Ultimate in Interceptors" by Tony Buttler (nine 2 or 3-view line drwgs); Canadair Pictorial (photo feature); Round-Out (readers letters: Fokker aircraft designations and T.III/T.IV comments incl. 2 3-view line drwgs, Wings to the Cape comments, Polish Tu-2 photos identity, Israeli Avia S 199 date correction, Pilatus P.3 cockpit photo reversed, Avro Arrow additional information) [80 pages] | |
| 62 | March-April 1996 |
| Jambocks Over Italy: Brazilian P-47s Combat Operations 1944-1945 Part Two by Jackson Flores; Disaster Has Swooped Down! The Armée de l'Air and the B-25 Mitchell by Alain J Pelletier (B-25 Mitchell in French Air Force); Willing Tracker: The Grumman S2F Tracker in Canadian Service Part Two by Robert M Stitt (fire bomber use); Boeing's Biplane Fighters: From MB-3 to F4B by Ken Wixey (Boeing MB-3, PW-9, FB-1, F4B, 5 3-view line drwgs); Selling The First Aeroplane: Exploiting the Wright Flyers by Philip Jarrett; To the Water! The Fizir-Vega AF-Z Amphibian by Vladimir Isaic (3-view line drwg); Danish Invaders: Esk 724's Hunters - In Service and Retirement by Ken Ellis (Hawker Hunter in Danish AF service, 2 col profiles); Iberian 'Gustav' - The Long-Serving Spanish Messerschmitts by Salvador Mafé Huertas (Spanish-built Bf 109G/HA-1112M, 1 3-view line drwg, cutaway, variants side view line drwgs); Flights of Fancy: The Cornwall Aviation Company by Peter London (1 col profile); Out of the Archives: The Science Museum's Avro 504K by Peter Green; 'Wimpey Workhorse': Flying with the RAE's Air Photography Division by B J Attwell (Vickers Wellington camera test-bed); Round-Out (readers letters: Romanian Bf 109 & Slovak S.84 comments, Martin-Baker MB.5 comments, Supermarine Scimitar unbuilt project, Strike Rivals update & 3-view line drwg, Israeli Avia S 199 comments, Finnish Ju 88 additional info, French Lancasters comment, MiG-17 comments, Armstrong Whitworth's SE.5A, Fokker D.VII in the Netherlands, Fokker D.VII in Hungary & Romania, QANTAS flying boat memories, FGP 227 at Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment) [80 pages] | |
| 63 | May-June 1996 |
| Blackburn Dart: The Fleet Air Arm's Seminal Torpedo Bomber by Harry Woodman (3 diagrams, 5-view line drwg); Drops in the Ocean: A Miscellany of Soviet Postwar Jets by Piotr Butowski (first Su-17, La-250, Il-40 - no drwgs); Spitfires for Israel: The 1948 Vintage by Shlomo Aloni; Hamble Pictorial: Air Service Training in the 1930s by Roy Bonser (photo feature); Anglo-French Aspects Cross Channel High Aspect Wing Development by Daniel Ford (Hurel Dubois & Miles aircraft with high aspect ratio wings, 2 3-view line drwgs with variant side view line drwg); The First Twenty-Five Years: Romanian Aircraft Production 1911-1935 by Denes Bernad; From Fishermen's Bend: CAC's Projects, Proposals and Concepts by Joe Vella (Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation Projects, 27 1- 2- and 3-view line drwgs, 1 2-view col profile); Pemmican & Penguins: The life and times of Silas Alward Cheesman (Canadian Arctic flyer) by Robert S Grant; Outback Memories: The Alice Springs Aviation Museum by Paul Middleton; Long Ranging Thoughts: LRDU Wellesleys to Australia by Colin A Owers (Wellesley cutaway); Round-Out (readers letters: Twin Pioneer survivor, 1947-1948 spotting memories & Miles Nighthawk photo, Fokker D.VII comments, CAC Sabre Mk.32 photo, 6-3 wing mod on Italian F-86s, Hamble additional info, Danish Hunter survivor photo, Short Empire Flying Boats Clare and Golden Hind, Israeli planned P-47 purchase and S 199 cowling air intake) [80 pages] | |
| 64 | July-August 1996 |
| Towards the Ideal Aircraft? - The Life and Times of the Flying Wing, Part One: Beginings to 1945 by Alain J Pelletier (1 5-view line drwg, 9 3-view line drwgs, 1 2-view line drwg, 2 1-view line drwgs, Westland-Hill Pterodactyl V cutaway); Bandits on the Border: The Aerial Campaign Against 'Pancho' Villa by Donald MacCarron; Twenty Faithful Years: The B-25 in RCAF Service by John Lyzun; Flank Guard: Romania'a Aerial Advance on Stalingrad Part One by Mark Axworthy (1 map); Bournemouth Bases: World War One Flying Bases in the Bournemouth Area by Chris Ashworth and Peter Green; Overtaken by Events: The Potez 39 Family by Malcolm Passingham (2 3-view line drwgs); In from the Cold: Avro 504L Seaplane G-EASD by Andy Robertson (Eastbourne Aviation Company survivor rescued from Sweden); Foolhardy Patriot? Flugkapitän Hanna Reitsch by Francois Prins; Not Quit Ten: Northrop's A-9, A-X runner-up by William Jesse and Bradley Engbrecht (1 3-view line drwg); From Three to Two: Australian use of the Do 24 and PBM-3 by James Ritchie Grant (2 3-view line drwgs); Mau Mau! A Case Study in Colonial Air Power by John T Smith (RAF vs the Mau Mau in Kenya, 1 map, 3 col profiles); On Civvie Street: Douglas C-74 Globemaster Civil Operations by Nicholas M Williams; Round-Out (readers letters: Romanian aircraft production additional info, Savage's SE.5s additional info, Seddon Mayfly comments, Boeing biplane fighters in Brazil, Iberian Gustav comments, Selling the First Aeroplane caption error, Avia S 199 oil cooler, Canadian Trackers mis-translation, Wimpey Workhorse comments, Egyptian AF comments) [80 pages] | |
| 65 | September-October 1996 |
| Soaring Inspiration: Otto Lilienthal's Influence in Britain by Philip Jarrett; Towards the Ideal Aircraft? The Life and Times of the Flying Wing Part Two: Postwar Ambitions to Stealth by Alain J Pelletier (5 3-view line drwgs, YB-49 cutaway); Celestial Coaches: Dornier's record breaking Komet and Merkur by Peter G Cooksley (1 page line drwgs); Beaufort Weather: Mediterranean anti-shipping strikes by 39 Squadron by Ken Delve (1 3-view line drwg, 1 col profile); Texans in Biafra: T-6Gs in use in the Nigerian Civil War by João M Vidal (1 col profile, 1 map, 1 3-view line drwg); Gina's Story: The Aeritalia-Fiat G.91 Family Part One by Riccardo Niccoli (1 3-view line drwg); Oxford Graduate: Airspeed's Consul - new life for the 'Oxbox' by Daniel Ford; Spitfires for Israel: Pilots and Aircraft - A Statistical View by Shlomo Aloni; Spirit of Britain First: A pictorial tribute to Britain's airworthy Blenheim (photo feature); The 'Empire' Strikes Back! Notes on the Shorts 'Empire' flying-boats by Hugh J Yea; Flank Guard: Romania's Aerial Advance on Stalingrad Part Two by Mark Axworthy; Round-Out (readers letters: Canadian Tracker comments, more on Israeli P-47 purchase attempt, LRDU Wellesley comment, more on Fokker D.VII, Avro 504K 'H2311', Romanian additions & Potez 39 designations format, Hamble Pictorial comment, Wimpey Workhorse comment, Ivan Spring death) [80 pages] | |
| 66 | November-December 1996 |
| Mespot Squadron: No.30 Squadron in Mesopotamia 1916-1917 by Roderick de Normann; Gina's Story: The Aeritalia-Fiat G.91 Family Part Two by Riccardo Niccoli (1 3-view line drwg, 1 side view line drwg); Wrong Place, Wrong Time: The Loss of DH.84 Dragon G-ACPY by Mike Ingham (crash off Land's End, DH.84 cutaway, 1 col profile); Wings Over The Steppes: Aerial warfare in Mongolia 1930-1945 Part One by A J Walg; Gloster Trilogy: Finland's Use of Gloster Biplanes by Kari Stenman (3 3-view line drwgs); Over All Things Everywhere: The story 82 Squadron, Royal Air Force by Andrew Thomas; Tradewind Routes: The changing fortunes of the Convair R3Y by Don Henley; Incidental Combatant: Focke-Wulf's Fw 200 Condor Part One - Airliner Origins by Ken Wixey (1 3-view line drwg); On Your Marks! The London-to-Manchester Air Race, 1910 by John Godwin; French 'Packets': Fairchild C-119 Boxcars in French Indochina by Albert Grandolini (1 col profile, 1 3-view line drwg); Canberras over the Falklands: Wartime Exploits of a Venerable Jet Bomber by Salvador Mafe Huertas (Argentine Canberras); The Other 'Wimpey': Wellington T.10 MF628 at the RAF Museum by Ken Ellis; Bognor's 'Boats: The Aircraft of Norman Thompson by Peter London; Round-Out (readers letters: Bournemouth Bases memories, meeting Hanna Reitsch, RCAF B-25 name correction, Oxford & Consul in Israel, praise for cancelled projects articles, Romanian SET visit to Italy, Spitfires delivered to Malta, Flank Attack mention of Zveno aircraft) [80 pages] | |
| 67 | January-February 1997 |
| Wings Over The Steppes: Aerial warfare in Mongolia 1930-1945 Part Two by A J Walg; Comparative 'Maggie': The RAAF's one and only Miles Magister by Colin A Owers; Everything That Can Be Done... Combat search and rescue during the Vietnam war by John T Smith; Enduring Nocturnal: The Vickers Virginia, long-serving 'heavy' by James Goulding (2 3-view line drwg, 6 col profiles); Conair's Mighty Sixes: A Quarter Century of Douglas DC-6 Operations by Robert M Stitt; One Remarkable Six: Conair's C-GIBS by Robert M Stitt; Vickers's Last Fighter: The Type 432 'Tin Mossie' by Tony Buttler (7 line drwgs); Ace in a Day: America's last - 1st Lt Oscar Francis Perdomo by Santiago A Flores (1 col profiles); More Drops in the Ocean: A Miscellany of Soviet Rotorcraft by Piotr Butowski (3 3-view line drwgs); Incidental Combatant: Focke-Wulf's Fw 200 Condor Part Two - Commerce Raider by Ken Wixey (1 3-view line drwg, 2 pages variants line drwgs); Round-Out (readers letters: Miles Monitor comments, German exports to Romania & Swedish Avro 504 & Dornier Komet additional info, Bandits on the Border Mexico corrections, RAAF Do 24Ks more info, Biafran corrections) [80 pages] | |
| 68 | March-April 1997 |
| Fokker's American Years: 'Flying Dutchmen' built in the US by Bart van der Klaauw (F.VII cutaway); The 'Flea' and Me: Memories of an Essex 'Flying Flea' by Bert Marshall (2-view line drwg); Corpulent Feline: Grumman's F4F Wildcat by Ken Wixey (variants side view line drwgs, 3-view line drwg, 3 col profiles); 'Wild Catfish': The 'Sea-Booted' F4F-3S Wildcat by Ken Wixey (3-view line drwg); In at the Deep End: The Auster in Portuguese Military Service by Mario Canongia Lopes; Paper Darts to Deltas: The Designs of Roland Payen by Alain J Pelletier (14 3-view line drwgs, P.350CD col profile & sectional drwg); More From Mesopotamia: No.30 Squadron against the Turks by Andy Thomas; Bears in the Air: The US Air Police Perspective by Bryn Elliot; 'Forgotten' Airship Base: Royal Naval Airship Station Longside by Jim Hughes (Aberdeenshire RNAS station); Pacific Naval War: A personal view of 894 Squadron at Sea by Micheal Davey (Seafire pilot memories); Singular Customer: Belgium and the Avro Canada CF-100 by Don Henley (1 col profile, 1 3-view line drwg); 'Clunk': The Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck in Canadian Service (photo feature); Nearly, But Not Quite: Canadair's 'Paper Planes' by Brian Walters (4 line drwgs); Wings Over The Steppes: Aerial warfare in Mongolia 1930-1945 Part Three by A J Walg; Round-Out (readers letters: Israeli Spitfires, Romania SET visitor comments, Romania Bf 109 clash with Yugoslavia, Hungarian Revolution flights, Fw 200 Condor photo, IAR.80 replica, RAF Museum Wellington, Danish Fw 200 Condors, Vickers Virginia formation photo, Avro projects models photo, French C-119 serials, Japanese Fw 200 correction, Dutch Fw 200 caption error, Biafra comments, civil Globemasters, Wellington T.10 trainer photos, Bognor Boats comments) [80 pages] | |
| 69 | May-June 1997 |
| "A Delight to Fly": DH Vampires in Egyptian Service by David Nicolle and Gianni Cattaneo (1 3-view col drwg); Triple DSC: G/C Joseph Stewart Temple Fall, DSC, AFC, RAF by Bill Cumming (Canadian RNAS fighter pilot); 'A Coming Together': Tragedy Strikes over Huntingdon by Brian Riley (Wellington mid-air collision); Homage to the Vanguard: Vickers' Four Turboprop Workhorse Bows Out by Francois Prins (3-view line drwg); From Flying Club to Front Line: The Khmer Air Force at War 1970-1975 by Ken Conboy; Early Wing-Swingers: Paving the Way to Tornado by Tony Buttler (British swing-wing aircraft projects, 11 line drwgs); Cuckoo in the Nest: Assembling AW Ensigns at Hamble by Roy Bonser and Ken Ellis; The Jet Age Part One: The Miles Sparrowjet and Student by Don Henley (Sparrowjet outline drwg, M.100 Student cutaway); Twice in the Front Line: The story of the 'two' Killingholmes by Sandra Day (North Lincolnshire airfield in WW1 & WW2, 1 map); Budd's Covered Wagon: The RB-1 Conestoga by William Jesse (3-view line drwg); Round-Out (readers letters: Potez 25 photos, Vietnam CSAR 'BAT 21' comments, Spanish Piper L-14, Spanish Fw 200, Fizir-Vega AF-Z photo, 894 Sqn comments, American Fokkers, Vickers Virginia in 1943, more Mongolian photos, Biafra comments, Remarkable Six comments) [80 pages] | |
| 70 | July-August 1997 |
| Wings of the Albatross: 723 Squadron, Royal Australian Navy by Andrew Thomas; The Jet Age Part Two: The Miles Student and Centurion by Don Henley (3-view line drwg, 1 side view line drwg); Indo-Chinese Fighting 'Cats: Grumman's Superb Bearcat in Vietnam by Albert Grandolini (2 col profiles, 3-view line drwg); A False Dawn? Australian National Airways by James Ritchie Grant; 'One' Goes To War: No.1 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps by James Ritchie Grant; I Will Return: Australian Survivor with a MacArthur Connection by Ron Cuskelly (Queensland Air Museum DC-3); In a Class of Its Own: The Sud Vautour in Israeli Service - Part One, 1957-1967 by Shlomo Aloni (1 3-view line drwg); Viking from Malta: Pictorial tribute to the Vickers Valetta; Falklands Light Attack: Argentine T-34C Turbo-Mentors in Action by Savador Mafe Huertas; Corpulent Feline: Grumman's F4F Wildcat Part Two by Ken Wixey (1 col profile, 2 pages variants line drwgs); Durable Corpulent Felines: Wildcat Survivors Portfolio (photo feature); 'T' For Ten: Wellington T.10s in Malta by Norman Lees; Supermarine Extremes: Contrasting Survivors by Ken Ellis (careers of Hendon's Stranraer and Jet Heritage's Swift F.4); Red Rapier: Britain's Flying-Bomb Part One by Eric B Morgan (4 diagrams); Round-Out (readers letters: USAAF C-47A col profile, Vanguard comments, Avro Lincoln RR Tyne testbed photo, Conestoga in Ecuador, American Fokkers comments, F4F Wildcat comments, A Coming Together comment, Triple DSC correction, George automatic pilot photo, American Fokker missing type, Portuguese Auster caption comment, Miles Sparrowjet & Student fates update, Payern project numbering, Baynes swing-wing supersonic design, 550 Sqn Lancaster photos) [80 pages] | |
| 71 | September/October 1997 |
| Red Rapier: Britain's Flying-Bomb Part Two by Eric B Morgan (5 diagrams); Frustrated Fury: North American FJ-1 Pictorial; Soviet Canberra: Ilyushin's incredible Il-28 by Yefim Gordon & Dmitri Komissarov (3 pages variants side view line drwgs); Zeebrugge's Hornets: The Brandenburg Monoplanes Part One by Colin A Owers (W.29 family inc Norway use); Hungary's Hawk: The Story of the Héja fighter by Chris Szabo (Reggiane Re 2000 in Hungary, 3-view line drwg); Eagle to Spitfire: Pictorial Tribute to the Designs of R J Mitchell by John Godwin (2 3-view line drwgs); Burmese Lions: British Fighter Exports to Burma by Peter R Arnold and Ken Ellis (1 col profile); Corporate Conveyance: Percival's Q.6 - Frustrated Executive Transport by Don Henley; Corporate Survivor: Percival Q.6 G-AFFD by Ken Ellis (3-view line drwg); Hawk Dynasty: The Curtiss Hawk Monoplanes Part One by Ken Wixey (4 col profiles, two 3-view line drwgs, variants side view line drwgs); With A Vengeance! Fighting Malaria in West Africa, Vultee-style by Don R Neate (1944 spraying mission); Hawker's Light Bomber: Sydney Camm's B.11/41 by Tony Buttler (3 line drawings); Round-Out (readers letters: Sea Fury photo & Auster landing on truck incident, Israeli ace kill confusion, RAF Malta Valetta photo, Israeli Vautour comment, AW Ensign in France fate, Gerner IIR aircraft info & Fizir AF-Z & DH.60G YU-PCH, Finnish Bf 109G use & Romania in WW2 comments, Miles Student correction, Vietnam F8F-1P photo, DC-6 memories, Flying Tigers Budd RB-1 Conestoga, Khmer insignia correction) [80 pages] | |
| 72 | November/December 1997 |
| Bolivian 'Tin': Juan del Valle and other Ju 52s by Johann A Jakob (Ju 52 in Bolivia); Fire-Fighting Thoroughbred: Douglas A-26 Invaders in British Columbia by Robert Stitt (3-view line drwg); King for a Day: The Brief Reign of Rock Island's Monarch 26 by Robert Stitt (B-26 executive conversion); Siskin Supreme: The life and times of the Armstrong Whitworth Siskin by Ray Williams (3 3-view line drwg, cutaway); Hawk Dynasty: The Curtiss Hawk Monoplanes Part Two by Ken Wixey (P-40 Kittyhawk, 5 col profiles, 2 3-view line drwgs, 4 variants side view line drwgs); In a Class of Its Own: The Story of the Sud Aviation in Israeli Service Part Two - Six Day War by Shlomo Aloni; French 'Kings': Bell P-63 Kingcobras in Indochina by Alan J Pelletier (1 map, 4 col profiles); DC-Three: Cameos of three surviving Daks by Ken Ellis (three surviving DC-3s in the UK); Pure Canadian Silver: Canada's T-birds by Jim Lyzun (Canadian T-33/CT-133); Round-Out (readers letters: Khmer comments, Egyptian Vampire col drawing correction, US Fokker/USAAC designations correction, Supermarine Types 316, 317 & 318, Romania in WW2 historical disputes, Fokker Southern Cross preserved, Burma Sea Fury PB4Y-2 victim & Chinese Il-28 defection, other British flying bombs, more on Budd Conestoga, Lancaster PA995 mission tally, CF-100 corrections) [80 pages] | |
| 73 | January/February 1998 |
| Back to the Farm: Personal View of the Final Years of BOAC's Wartime Service by Alan Wood; Born in the USA: American Classics Portfolio by Geoffrey P Jones (surviving Travelair 4000, Fairchild KR.21 & Laird LC-R-300 Speedwing); Flying Jeeps: The USA Army's Search for the Ultimate 'Vehicle' by Stephen Harding (VZ-6, VZ-7 & VZ-8); Wight Elephants: Murray Sueter's Quest for a Large Military Aircraft by Mike Goodall (Wight Twin Seaplane & Landplane, AD Type I, two 3-view line drwgs); Atlantic Sentinels: The Portuguese Air Force Since 1912 by Riccardo Niccoli; Steps Towards 'Blackjack': Soviet supersonic intercontinental bombers before the Tu-160 by Piotr Butowski (5 3-view line drwgs, Tsybin RSR R-020 cutaway, 13 plan view line drwgs); Birth of a Classic: Conception and Development of the Vickers Viscount by Francois Prins (4 col profiles, 5 side view line drwgs); Zeebrugge's Hornets: The Brandenburg Monoplanes Part Two by Colin A Owers (3 col profiles); 'Hawk with a 'Q': The Air Racing XP-40Q by J R Hartley; I Kill & Return: No.118 Squadron Royal Air Force by Andrew Thomas; Round-Out (readers letters: Mexican fighter squadron in WW2 additional info, Wildcat delivery markings photo, US 9th Air Force, Israeli ace kill confusion corrected, Wings of the Albatross corrections, Israeli aces list, Il-28 & Heja in Hungary, more on Romania in WW2 historical disputes, defending the I-16 & Argentina Hawk 75) [80 pages] | |
| 74 | March/April 1998 |
| Birds of Passage: Pictorial Memories of Visitors to Malta 1948/50 by Norman Lees; Out of the Ashes: The Romanian Aviation Industry Since 1945 by Danut Vlad (4 3-view line drwgs, 6 side view line drwgs); Globetrotting Reindeer: De Havilland Canada's Caribou - an airlift legend ny Don Henley and Ken Ellis (DHC-4 Caribou, 4 col profiles, 1 3-view line drwg, 1 side view line drwg); From Seagull To 'Shagbat': The Life and Times of the Supermarine Walrus - Part One - Development and Production by Peter London (1 3-view line drwg); Young Turks: Ottoman Turkish Fighters 1915-1918 Part One by David Nicolle (1 col profile); Wrath of a Mythical Monster: Westland Wyvern Operations in the Suez Campaign by John T Smith (2 maps, 1 3-view line drwg, 1 col profile); Aah! De Havilland-ski! Origins and Development of the R-1, the Soviet DH.9a by Andrei Alexandrov & Gennady Petrov (2 3-view line drwgs, 3 side view tone profiles); Wings Over the Land of a Million Elephants: Military Aviation in Laos 1949-1975 by Ken Conboy; In a Class of its Own: The Story of the Sud Aviation Vautour in Israeli Service Part Three - Final Operations by Shlomo Aloni; Round-out (readers letters: Pacific Air Transport use of Travel Air 4000, Alcock & Brown landing site memorial in Ireland, Il-28 in action, Lepere LUSAC 21 more info, RAF Amman Jordan in 1950s, Adler Gerner IIC 3-view line drwg, French P-63 unit codes, Supermarine Type 317 specification number, missing P-63 photo, Siskin drawing was IIIA, King for a Day caption correction, Pure Canadian Silver: Decimomannu location error, Hulton Getty photo exhibition: Henri Fabre's Hydravion & 216 Sqn Valentias) [80 pages] | |
| 75 | May/June 1998 |
| Pioneering the Pacific: PanAm's Sikorsky S-42 Flying-Boats by Ed Davies (5 maps); High-Flying Exotica: Spartan's Lockheed and de Havilland Aerial Survey Twins by Robert M Stitt (P-38, Mosquito and Sea Hornet photo survey use in Canada, 1 map); Portuguese Numerology: Serial systems used by the Aeronautica Militar and the Forca Aerea Portuguesa by Riccardo Niccoli; High-Winged Workhorses: Broussards and Dorniers in Portuguese service by Mario Canongia Lopes (MH.1521 & Do 27 in Portugal); Triple-One Lineage: An Outline History of the Heinkel He 111 Part One by Ken Wixey (2 3-view line drwgs, variants line drwgs); Philippine Front Line: P-51 Mustangs with the Philippine Air Force by Leif Hellstrom; Northrop's Connection: The unsung A-17 attack aircraft and its legacy by Alain J Pelletier (1 3-view line drwg, sectional drwg); Young Turks: Ottoman Turkish Fighters 1915-1918 Part Two by David Nicolle (1 col profile); Round-out (readers letters: Ju 52 in Bolivia & Siskin in Sweden, Air Laos Boeing 307 Stratoliner, Alcock & Brown flight corrections, Hawk Dynasty comments, delivery markings Wildcat answer, Portuguese AF DC-3 error, F4U Corsair racers, Il-28 in Romania & Hungary, Il-28 in Bulgaria & Cambodia/Vietnam, Finnish Il-28 col profile & photos, Norden bomb sight, DHC manufacture of S-2 Tracker errors, Caribou photo error & additional info, Portuguese Vampires to Katanga, Wellington T.10 memories, Sunderland in Portugal, Born in the USA: Reid family memories, Wright brothers engine builder) [80 pages] | |
| 76 | July/August 1998 |
| 'Hotel Mile Lima' A Spartan Mosquito's Quest for Flight by Robert M Stitt (long-running restoration of Canadian Mosquito); Young Turks: Ottoman Turkish Fighters 1915-1918 Part Three by David Nicolle (3-view col drwg); 'Golden' Goose: A Personal Celebration of the Allure of Grumman's Goose by Craig P Justo (2 3-view line drwgs); Belgian Spearhead: The Hawker Hunter in Belgian Air Force service by André van Haute (2 col profiles); Then There Was One... Shuttleworth's Singular Hawker Tomtit by Don Henley (3-view line drwg); Los Bristols en Mexico: Mexican operations of the F.2b Fighter and Boarhound by Santiago A Flores; King of the Seas: Lockheed Neptunes in Canadian Service by William J Cumming (3-view line drwg, 1 col profile); Targets of Opportunity: Aermacchi MB.339A Operations in the Falklands Conflict by Salvador Mafé Huertas; Very Pregnant Turkey: The World's First AEW Aircraft by René J Francillon (TBM-3W Avenger); Bendix and the B-25: A Portfolio of Bendix Corporation Mitchells; Triple-One Lineage: An Outline History of the Heinkel He 111 Part Two by Ken Wixey (2 pages variants line drwgs, variants side view and 3-view line drwgs); From Seagull to 'Shagbat': The Life and Times of the Supermarine Walrus - Part Two - Operational Usage by Peter London; Surviving 'Bats: Pictorial Tribute to the Supermarine Seagull/Walrus survivors by Ken Ellis and Trevor Stone; Round-Out (readers letters: RAAF Caribous in PNG, Hawk with a Q corrections, PNG DF C-47 photo, Wyvern comments, more Caribou comments & photos, Australian Seagull fate, French Tucano photo, RAAF Caribou in Vietnam & French unit codes, more on Wright Brothers engine, Ottoman Army ranks correction, Vultee Vengeance memories) [80 pages] | |
| 77 | September/October 1998 |
| Northrop's Connection: The unsung A-17 attack aircraft and its legacy Part Two by Alain J Pelletier; Sycamore Seeds: Background and Development of the Bristol Type 171 by Eric Myall; San Carlos: Insights into an Intense Battle by Salvador Mafe Huertas; Pequenos and Grandes: Earlier Heinkel He 111s in Spanish Service by Gonzala Avila Cruz; Pequenos and Grandes: Colours of Earlier Heinkel He 111s in Spanish Service by Gonzala Avila Cruz; Wackett's Winged Warriors: Australia's Widgeon Flying-Boat and Amphibian by Colin A Owers; Corrugated Masterpieces: Junkers Types in Australia and Papua-New Guinea by James Ritchie Grant; Kangeroo Kingfishers: The Vought OS2U-3 in Australian service by David Vincent; Meteor Hopefuls: Rethinking the Gloster Meteor by James Goulding; Tanker 55: Planes of Fame A-26C Portfolio by Frank B Mormillo; Eclipse of an Air Force: The Annihilation of the Japanese 4th Air Army in New Guinea by Mark Huggins; Round-Out (readers letters: more on Spartan Mosquitos, RCAF Neptunes correction, ferry flights of Canadian Mosquitos, export Wildcats/Martlets, Sunderland in Portugal, TBM-3W in Canada, early aviation in Ireland book, Philippine P-51s, Walrus/Seagull V photos, Bristols in Mexico additional info, Walrus in Malta, export Wildcat/Martlet photos) [80 pages] | |
| 78 | November/December 1998 |
| From Wings to Wheels: Siddeley-Deasy Engines and Aeroplanes 1915-1918 by Nick Forder (Armstrong-Siddeley predecessor); European 'Flashes: RF-84F Thunderflash in USAFE Service by Douglas Gordon (3 col profiles, 3-view line drwg); Trujillo's Boys: Brazilian Mercenary Pilots in the Dominican Republic by Ricardo Bonalume Neto (P-51 pilots from Brazil); Boeing's Battle Wagon: The B-17 Flying Fortress - An Outline History by Ken Wixey (four 3-view line drwgs, variants side view line drwgs, 2 pages col drwgs); From Israel to Burma: Operation Orez, Supplying and Ferrying Spitfires Part One by Shlomo Aloni and Peter R Arnold; World Beater: Homage to the DH.106 Comet by Francois Prins (cutaway, 6 col profiles, 3-view line drwg, variants side view line drwgs); Heinkels for Sweden: Svenska Aero AB and Heinkel Types by Lennart Andersson; Rumanian 'Beagles': The Ilyushin Il-28 in Rumanian Service by Denes Bernad (Il-28 in Romania); Light Blue 'Stringbags': The Fairey Swordfish in RAF Service by Andrew Thomas; Aim High: A World War One Throwback, the Vickers Type 161 by Daniel Ford (3-view line drwg) [80 pages] | |
| 79 | January/February 1999 |
| From Israel to Burma: Operation Orez, Supplying and Ferrying Spitfires Part Two by Shlomo Aloni and Peter R Arnold; Triple Twist: Tracking Down the 'Real' Spitfire UB425 by Peter R Arnold; French 'Warthog': SE.100, cannon-armed 'penetration' fighter by Alain J Pelletier (3-view line drwg, 1 col profile, 3-view silhouette, 2 diagrams); More Birds of Passage: Early postwar visitors and residents at Luqa, Malta by Norman Lees (3 col profiles); Vital Bombers: Origins of the RAF's 'V-Bomber' Force by Tony Buttler (Vulcan, Victor, Valiant origins, 10 3-view line drwgs, 2 artists impressions); Eagles Over Malaga: American Pilots in the Spanish Civil War, 1937 by Allen Herr; A Texan in Devon: A Pictorial Celebration of Pioneer S F Cody by Peter Green; Wackett's Winged Warriors: The Warrigal - Untamed 'General Training Machine' Part Two by Colin A Owers (2 col profiles, 3-view line drwg); Boeing's 'Forgotten' Monster: XB-15, a Giant in Search of a Cause by Patrick Boniface (Boeing XB-15, 3-view line drwg); On the Beat: The First 60 Years of Britain's Air Police by Bryn Elliott (UK Police aviation history); Round-Out (readers letters: Tanker 55 A-26 additional info, Spartan Mosquitos correction, Canadian TBM-3W serials, Sea Otters with 1701 Sqn correction, Kingfisher in Dutch East Indies, Walrus use by Weston Airways, Netherlands 8A markings, Spartan Mosquito engine preserved, Northrop 8A in Argentina, Gladiator research & Walrus crash, Northrop 8A in Netherlands, Comet water tank test photo, Horsa with Comet nose photo, hydrofoil Goose, B-17 caption error & 100 Group Fortress III 3-view line drwg) [80 pages] | |
| 80 | March/April 1999 |
| Red Sea Guardians: The Story of the Aden Defence Flight by Andrew Thomas (RAF unit 1941-1943); Call for Fire Attack! A 'one-two' formation by Mars and PBY might still outclass the modern options by Frank B Mormillo (Martin JRM-3 Mars & PBY Catalina firebombers); Adaptable 'Annie': Spartan's Multi-Talented Avro Anson by Robert M Stitt; Twin-Tailed Target: The Sea Vixen Drone Programme by Steve Hazell (3 col profiles); 'Ugly Ducklings' and the 'Forgotten Division': Brazilian Piper L-4s in Italy, 1944-1945 Part One by Ricardo Bonalume Neto (1 col profile); Last Throws of the Dice: Boulton Paul Trainer Projects by Alec Brew (4 3-view line drwgs); 'Pocket' Interceptors: Folland Gnats in Finnish Service by Kari Stenman (3-view line drwg); Unexpected Windfalls: Accidentally or deliberately, more than 100 aircraft 'arrived' in Dutch territory during the Great War by Baart van der Klaauw (inc. full table of serials); A sudden & dusty arrival - Belly-landing a Spitfire during a ferry flight by Philip Gurdon (pilot's memories of Israel to Burma ferry flight); Fifty years of DC service: Douglas Transports used by the Spanish Air Force by Jose Luis Gonzalez Serrano (DC-1, DC-2, DC-3, C-54 use); Yugoslav Naval Strike: Dornier's Merkur Seaplane in the Military Role by Vladimir Isaic (Do D Yugoslavia use, 3-view line drwg); Hatzerim Album: Spitfires and Meteors at the Israeli Defence Force Museum by Alan Warnes (photo feature); Round-Out (readers letters: Westland F.29/27 COW gun fighter, 'Jet Marauder' model query, wrong Siddeley-Deasy engine photo, French DH.88 Comet racers, Siddeley-Deasy RT.1 mystery, Tanker 55 correction, Walrus photos, Northrop A-17/8A in Sweden, He 111 exports to Spain in RLM documents, Junkers in Australia comments) [80 pages] | |
| 81 | May/June 1999 |
| 'Antek's' Early Years: Creating a Legend - Formative Years of the Antonov An-2 by Piotr Butowski (1 page variants side view line drwgs); Early American Carrier Jets: Evolving Jet Operations with the US Fleet Part One by Alan Bedford (3 3-view line drwgs); Flying Cannon: Bell's Cobra Family Part One by Ken Wixey (P-39 & P-63, 4 col profiles, 2 3-view line drwgs, 4 variants side view line drwgs); Setting Sun: Japanese Air Defence of the Philippines 1944-1945 by Mark Huggins; Early Days of the 81st: The 81st TFW USAFE in the 1950s by Doug Gordon; Somersaulting Fighter: The Berliner-Joyce Y1P-16 by Alain Pelletier (5-view line drwg); Control at the Tips: Aero-isoclinics and Their Influence on Design by Tony Buttler (British projects with wing-tip control surfaces, 1 3-view line drwg, 1 plan view line drwg); 'AV' - His Life & Times: A biography of A V Roe, first Briton to fly and founder of a dynasty by Francois Prins; On The Beat: The First 60 Years of Britain's Air Police Part Two by Bryn Elliott (UK Police aviation); Short-Lived Dragon: The Douglas B-23 by William Jesse (3-view line drwg); 'Ugly Ducklings' and the 'Forgotten Division': Brazilian Piper L-4s in Italy, 1944-1945 Part Two by Ricardo Bonalume Neto (1 map); Round-Out (readers letters: Dornier Do D Merkur comments, Siddeley-Deasy RT.1 clarification, Finland Gnat survivor, fate of Burma BVAF pilots, Air Malta early aircraft, Birds of Passage DH.89A caption correction, Boeing 314 loss in Gibraltar, Unexpected Windfalls additional info) [80 pages] | |
| 82 | July/August 1999 |
| Supersonic Myasishchevs: More Details on the OKB's Frustrated Bombers by Piotr Butowski (2 plan view drwgs, 10 3-view line drwgs); Cody and his Aeroplanes: Samuel Franklin Cody: His Life and Times by Philip Jarrett; Early American Carrier Jets: Evolving Jet Operations with the US Fleet Part Two by Alan Bedford (3 3-view line drwgs); Air War in Paradise: The CIA and Indonesia 1958 by Leif Hellstrom (1 map); Maid of all Work: Bristol's Multi-Function Type 120 by Daniel Ford; On Target! A Pictorial Tribute to the Drones of RAE Llanbedr, Wales by Ian Black (photo feature); Flugboots from Hamburg: An Outline History of Blohm und Voss Flying-Boats by Ken Wixey (BV 138, BV 222, BV 238 & BV 250, 3-view line drwgs); Singular Giant: Spain's One-Off Ju 290 by Gonzalo Avila Cruz (2-view tone drwg); Something Useful! Blackburn's 'Firecrest', Son of Firebrand by Tony Buttler (3-view line drwg); Anti-Clockwise: Australia the 'Wrong Way' by James Ritchie Grant; HS 'Boats: Curtiss HS Flying-Boats by Colin A Owers (3-view line drwg, 2 pages col drwgs); Round-Out (readers letters: P-39 in Canada, RAF Swordfish correction, credit for XB-15 information, memories of Berliner-Joyce P-16 and USAAC, 81st TFW F-101 colours, Yugoslav Do D Merkur info, more Unexpected Windfall details) [80 pages] | |
| 83 | September/October 1999 |
| Alternative Airlines: CIA Airlift Contracts in Laos by Ken Conboy and James Morrison; No 'Safe Haven': Military Aviation in the Channel Islands 1939-1945 by John F Hamlin (2 maps); Veterans United: A T-28D Trojan Meets up with a Former Pilot by Joe Cupido; Last of the 'Colonial Policemen'? Bristol's Occasionally Self-Destructive Brigand by Alan F Crouchman (3-view line drwg); Last of the Fighting 'Wooden Wonders': The DH Mosquito in Israeli Service by Shlomo Aloni; Hoping for a Junkers: More Recollections on Prewar Airline Exploits From a Fledgling Gatwick Airport by Alan Wood (memories of radio operator with the original British Airways); From Theory to Production: Australian Aviation Development 1870 to 1939 by Jim Grant; Early American Carrier Jets: Evolving Jet Operations with the US Fleet Part Three by Alan Bedford (2 3-view line drwgs); Sought-After Classic: N3N-3 Canary - Often Mis-Identified, Always Loved! by Daniel Ford (3-view line drwg); Flying Cannon: Bell's Cobra Family Part Two by Ken Wixey (P-39 & P-63, 1 3-view line drwg, 3 variants side view line drwgs, 1.5 pages col drwgs); 'Booted' Flycatchers: A Portfolio of Fairey Flycatcher Floatplanes (photo feature); Round-Out (readers letters: HS Boats comments, big-wing Gnat, An-2 corrections, Anson G-AIPA memories, P-39 in Iceland, S F Cody corrections) [80 pages] | |
| 84 | November/December 1999 |
| Stepping Stone to the 'Jug': A Rare Seversky Survivor - The AT-12 Guardsman by Joe Cupido (background of preserved example); Combat Composites: Soviet use of 'Mother-ships' to carry Fighters, 1931-1941 by Vladimir Lesnitchenko (10 2- and 3-view line drwgs, 1 page TB-3 variants side view line drwgs, 3 side view line drwgs); Latham's 'Boats: Pictorial History of the Designs of Jean Latham by Malcolm Passingham; Plausible Deniability: US-Taiwanese Covert Insertion into North Vietnam by Ken Conboy and James Morrison (sqn badge in colour); Pioneering in the Trusts: Postwar Airline Pioneering in US Trust Territory by Paul Howard; RAF Flying Training and the Vampire by David Watkins (3-view line drwg, 3-view col drwg); L-8's Legacy: The Mary Celeste of the Skies by Patrick Abbott (US Navy airship mystery, 1 map); 'Deep Freeze': US Navy Operations in Antarctica 1955-1999 Part One by Noel Gillespie (1 map, 3 col profiles); Fledgling Neptunes: A Portfolio of Early Series Lockheed P2Vs (photo feature); A Near Class Act: Short's Frustrated Sturgeon by Tony Buttler (5-view line drwg, 3-view line drwg, variants side view line drwgs); Canadian Connection: US Army Aviation's Penchant for Canadian Types by Stephen Harding; Round-Out (readers letters: East German An-2s, searchwater radar DC-3 photo, Belgian pilot in Spanish civil war, de Gaulle's aircraft dispute, AI radar plans for P-39, Brigand memories) [80 pages] | |
| 85 | January/February 2000 |
| Singular Two-Seater: Consolidated's PB-2A - The USAAC's Only Two-Seat Fighter by Alain J Pelletier (3 3-view line drwgs); Transport of Delight: Flying the Owls Head Transportation Museum Fokker C.IV by Daren Banfield & Gilles Auliard; 'Deep Freeze': US Navy Operations in Antarctica 1955-1999 Part Two by Noel Gillespie; Did Hitchcock Make it?: Raiding Portuguese Timor With B-26 Marauders by David Hanna (USAAF raid goes wrong); Vampire with Attitude: De Havilland's Venom is 50 by Ken Wixey (2 3-view line drwgs); Southern Exposures: A Photo-Survey Mosquito in Latin America by Robert M Stitt and Ricardo Martin Lezon (Spartan operations in South America); 'Streaks Over Europe: Republic F-84F Thunderstreaks in USAFE Service by Doug Gordon (4 col profiles, 5 unit badges in colour); Imperial Dragon: Nakajima Ki-44 Shoki - The Fighter That Could Have Made the Difference by Mark Huggins (3-view line drwg); Before There Were Moths: The Early Days of Stag Lane Aerodrome Part One by Stuart McKay; Round-out (readers letters: DH.89A Rapide in Laos, USAAF Norseman in Greenland, Air America Pilatus Porter crash, Monty's Miles Messenger update, Golden Knights Twin Otter photo, Sturgeon correction, Soviet P-63 (non) use, de Gaulle's aircraft) [80 pages] | |
| 86 | March/April 2000 |
| Before There Were Moths: The Early Days of Stag Lane Aerodrome Part Two by Stuart McKay (1 3-view drwg); Hot-Rod: A Radically Modified Yak C-11 - Ready to Race by Joe Cupido (Yak-11 air racing conversion); Clipper to China: Pan Am's Martin 130s in the Pacific Part One by Ed Davies; From Warhorse to Workhorse: Lancaster Mk.10 Variants in Canada by Jim Lyzun (RCAF use); Italian Flair: Aermacchi's Superb MB.326 Family by Riccardo Niccoli (1 side view line drwg, 1 3-view line drwg); To Quell Rebellion: Farman F-50 Bombers in Mexico by Santiago A Flores; The RAF Hath No Fury: Hawker Fury - The Early Days of Britain's Last Piston Fighter by Tony Buttler (1 sectional drwg, 2 3-view line drwgs, 2 side view line drwgs); Cruising The World: A Round-The-World Survivor by Geoff Jones (restored Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser from 1947); From Calcutta to Bizerte: The Breguet 521 Flying-Boat by Malcolm Passingham; 'Flying Fuel Cans': Vought's SB2U Vindicator by Ken Wixey (2-view col drwg, 1 3-view line drwg); Last Waterbird: Edo XOSE-1 - The US Navy's Last Floatplane by William Jesse; Trial and Error: Helicopter Operations - Malaya by Dave Taylor (memories of flying RAF helicopters in Malaya 1950s); Round-Out (readers letters: first Canadian S2F Tracker, aircraft wrecks in Antarctica & UK Otter, Soviet P-63 use, Lockheed Constellation in Antarctica, Seversky AT-12 correction, Plausible Deniability comment, Pioneering in the Trusts corrections) [80 pages] | |
| 87 | May/June 2000 |
| Clipper to China: Pan Am's Martin 130s in the Pacific Part Two by Ed Davies; The Grumman That Never Was: XF12F - A Tomcat Before its Time by Alain J Pelletier (sectional drwg, 4-view line drwg, 1 diagram); Insurrection! Belgian Air Force Peace-Keeping Operations, Congo 1960 by Andre Van Haute (2 col profiles); The 'Other' Warbird Transport: C-46 Commando Portfolio by Frank B Mormillo (restored C-46s); Second to None: Homage to the Hawker Hurricane by Francois Prins (1 page variants line drwgs); Stearman Replacement - Replaced by a Stearman! Israel's First Purchase Programme - In Search of a Primary Trainer by Shlomo Aloni; Secrets of the Sea Vixen: Trials and Tribulations, Formulation and Development by Tony Buttler (3 3-view line drwg, 2 diagrams, 2 variants side view line drwgs); 'Bipalas', 'Tripalas' and 'Knapsacks': Messerschmitt Bf 109s in Spanish Service by Gonzalo Avila Cruz (5 tone markings drwgs, 3 col profiles); Heron Half-Century: De Havilland's DH.114 Heron at 50 by Ken Wixey (2 3-view line drwgs); Round-Out (readers letters: RAF Sycamore in Malaya comments, photo survey Lockheed AT-18 in Argentina, VZ-9 Avrocar survivors, aircraft wrecks in Argentina, RCAF Lancasters comment, Deep Freeze photos) [80 pages] | |
| 88 | July/August 2000 |
| For Faith and Freedom: The History of RAF Waddington Part One by Ray Leach; 'Frescos' in Red: A Portfolio of US MiG-17s by Frank B Mormillo; Spitfire to Berlin? Making Supermarine's Finest An Escort Fighter by Paul Stoddart (4 diagrams); Luftwaffe Eagle: A Production History of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 by Ken Wixey (3 pages variants line drwgs); A Star is Not Born: Lockheed's L-133, Frustrated Fighter by Alain J Pelletier (1942 jet fighter project, 3 artists impressions, 3-view line drwg, 2 sectional drwgs); Scouting Rivalries: The Bristol Scout in Australia by Colin A Owers; Otter Odyssey: The Life and Times of a Polar DHC-3 by Karl E Hayes (TransAntarctica Expedition Otter history); Otter Portfolio: Images of the De Havilland Canada DHC-3 (photo feature); First and Last: Finnish Fokker D.XXIs by Kari Stenman (3-view line drwg); Southern Cross Enigma: Piecing Together an Icon's Past by E Colin Loveday; Alpine Deltas: The Swiss Mirage Story by Riccardo Niccoli (Mirage III in Switzerland); Viva Italia! The Story of Globe-Trotting de Pinedo by Jim Grant (Italian flying boat flight to Australia); Round-Out (readers letters: Gordon Swanborough obituary, Montgomery's Messenger details, DH Heron comments & photos) [80 pages] | |
| 89 | September/October 2000 |
| Testing With 'T' Flight: Early Jet Aircraft Trials at RAE Farnborough by Andrew Thomas; Founding Fathers: Britain's Pioneering Airlines Part One - The 1920s by Guy Warner; Young Guns: Japan's Elite Tainan Kokutai by Mark Huggins; Republic's 'Jug': A Production History of the Seversky/Republic P-47 Thunderbolt by Ken Wixey (1 page variants line drrwgs); Arrow Secrets: Items From the History of Canada's Most Famous Fighter by Tony Buttler (7 3-view line drwgs, 1 2-view line drwg); Surviving '67: Kibrit Airbase, June 5 1967 by David Nicolle (Egyptian pilots in the Six Day War, 3-view col drwg); Max's Morane: A Swiss Fighter Returns to Alpine Skies by Erich Gandet (restored D-3801, 3-view line drwg); For Faith and Freedom: The History of RAF Waddington Part Two by Ray Leach; Spitfire Across the Atlantic: Storey's Spitfire - Latin America's First by Ricardo M Lezon and Robert M Stitt (delivery of PR Spitfire to Argentina + 2 other Spitfires & Hurricane in Argentina); T-Birds and Targets: Weapons Training in the Postwar Italian Air Force by Nicola Malizia; Round-Out (readers letters: Luftwaffe Eagle Bf 109 corrections, Southern Cross Enigma more info, DH.110 comments & photos, Long Range Spitfire comments, Spartan Air Services update & Air Pacific Herons, more Spitfire to Berlin comments) [80 pages] | |
| 90 | November/December 2000 |
| Surviving '67: Kibrit Airbase, June 5 1967 Part Two by David Nicolle (Egyptian pilots in the Six Day War, 1 col profile); Unarmed, Unafraid and Unaccompanied: Soviet PR Spitfire Operations by Wojtek Matusiak (1 col profile); Secret SAAB Projects: Unbuilt Design Studies by a Master Combat Aircraft Builder by Tony Buttler (18 line drwgs); Iranian Eagles: Civil and Military Aviation in Iran 1924-1949 by Lennart Andersson; Red Suns at Chino: Jiro's Thunderbolt by Joe Cupido (restored J2M3, 3-view line drwg); Red Suns at Chino: Film Star 'Val' by Joe Cupido (Aichi D3A lookalike); Aleutian Hawks: Defending Alaskan Airspace During World War Two by David Stern (1 map); Homegrown 'Pedros': Spanish-Built Heinkel He 111s Part One - Jumo Variants by Gonzalo Avila Cruz (3 col profiles, 3 unit badges in colour); For Faith and Freedom: The History of RAF Waddington Part Three by Ray Leach; Founding Fathers: Britain's Pioneering Airlines Part Two - The 1930s by Guy Warner (3 col profiles); Round-Out (readers letters: Founding Fathers comments, more on the Bizerte, Seversky 2PA at Martlesham Heath photo, more on Southern Cross Enigma, Heron VH-CLZ history, Young Guns remains in museum) [80 pages] | |
| 91 | January/February 2001 |
| Salon Stars: A Selection of Types at the November 1936 Paris Salon Aéronautique by Roy Bonser & Daniel Ford (photo feature); Homegrown 'Pedros': Spanish-Built Heinkel He 111s Part Two - Merlin Variants by Gonzalo Avila Cruz (3 col profiles); The Free Air of Heaven: A History of Aviation in Bermuda by Tom Springfield; Midland Memories: The Life and Times of Derby's Burnaston Airport Part One by Robert M Stitt; Enduring Tug: The Swiss C-36 Series by Micheal Gruenenfelder and Rene J Francillon (EKW C-3601 family, 3-view line drwgs, 5 variants side view line drwgs); French 'Jugs': P-47 Thunderbolts with the Armée de l'Air by Alain J Pelletier (2 col profiles); Turbulent Times: The USAF's 20th TFW in the 1950s, Thunderjets and Thunderstreaks by Doug Gordon (F-84 use, 2 col profiles); A Slap in the Face: Italy's Leaflet Raid on Vienna, August 1918 by Jim Grant; Upwardly Mobile: VAK-191B - Germany's 'Harrier' by Tony Buttler (three 3-view line drwgs); Round-out (readers letters: Alaska's RCAF P-40s, RP-43 designation comment, Secret SAAB Projects correction, Iranian Eagles comments, Hawker Hart family in Soviet Union) [80 pages] | |
| 92 | March/April 2001 |
| Turbulent Times: The USAF's 20th TFW in the 1950s, Part Two - Super Sabres by Doug Gordon (F-100 use); Solitary Dragon: The North American XB-21 by Bradley Engbrecht (3-view line drwg); Liaison by Aeronca: L-16 Korean Veteran Turned 'Warbird' by Geoffrey P Jones (restored Aeronca L-16); Poseidon's Giant: The Story of the Martin P6M SeaMaster by Francis J Allen (2 3-view line drwgs, 1 3-view col drwg); Queen of the Skies: Homage to the Vickers VC-10 by Frank Prince (VC10, 2 3-view line drwgs, 2 variants side view line drwgs, 2 col profiles); 'Wulf' in Sheep's Clothing: Farewell to Swissair's P.149s by Erich Gandet (Piaggio P.149, 3-view silhouette); Turtles and the Cheetahs by Shlomo Aloni (Avro Anson and Airspeed Oxford/Consul in Israeli service); Station Wagon: LASA-60, A Mexican Dream Turned Sour by Santiago A Flores with Gary Kuhn and John M Davis; Island 'Cats': Commercial Catalina Operations in New Guinea Part one by Paul Howard; 'Graf Zeppelin' Afloat: Germany's Aircraft Carrier - A Potentially Formidable 'Might Have Been' by Henk van Willigenburg (4 col profiles); Midland Memories: The Life and Times of Derby's Burnaston Airport Part Two by Robert M Stitt; Round-Out (readers letters: Iranian Hurricanes, LeO 46 at Paris Salon, Burnaston photos, Bermuda 231 Sqn, Slap in the Face correction, Aeroflot Hart/Audax comment) [80 pages] | |
| 93 | May/June 2001 |
| Island 'Cats': Commercial Catalina Operations in New Guinea Part Two by Paul Howard (1 map); Defenceless Warrior: Culver's PQ-14 Drone by Frank B Mormillo (restored example); Fairey's Famous Research Aeroplanes: Delta 1 and Delta 2 by Tony Buttler (9 3-view line drwgs, 1 col profile); Forgotten Breed... The RAF's Last 'Shufti' Meteors by W A Harrison (RAF Meteor FR.9s in Aden, 3-view silhouette); "They Called Us Foggiani": Americans in Italy During World War One by Jim Grant; In General Terms: Pictorial History of the UK's General Aircraft by Daniel Ford (9 3-view line drwgs, includes unbuilt projects); Maple Leaf Mustangs: P-51Ds and 'Ks in Canadian Service by Jim Lyzun; A to Zlin: An Illustrated History of a Light Aircraft Dynasty by Dick van Mourik (5 side view line drwgs); Sub-Zero Moths: Gipsy Moth Operations in Greenland 1930-1931 by Stuart McKay; Last of the Great 'Whales': Civilian-Operated, Test-Bed Douglas A-3s by Mark Munzel; Round-Out (readers letters: Spanish civil Mosquito use, Sea Vixen wing span query, Praga E.210 history, BOAC and the VC-10, NASM Hurricane restoration, Piaggio P.149 designer correction, Robert/Roberta Cowell RAF pilot, LeO H.46 floatplane) [80 pages] | |
| 94 | July/August 2001 |
| Fairey's Famous Research Aeroplanes: Part Two Type 221 by Tony Buttler (BAC 221, 1 3-view line drwgs); In the Footsteps of Daedalus: Early Greek Naval Aviation by Andrew Thomas; Ten Out of Ten: The Life and Times of a Lockheed Electra by Craig P Justo (restored Lockheed 10); Balkan Birds: Thirty-Five Years of Bulgarian Aircraft Production Part One by Dénes Bernád (2 3-view line drwgs); Tac Recon Masters: The 66th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing in Europe Part One by Doug Gordon; Folland's 'Frightful': The Fo 108 Engine Test-Bed by Daniel Ford; Trainers in Combat: Valour and Sacrifice in the Six Day War by Shlomo Aloni (Israeli Fouga Magisters in combat); From Britain to Finland: Supplies for the Winter War 1939-1940 by Kari Stenman; Alan's Colonial Warrior: A Broussard in the USA by Frank B Mormillo (restored MH.1521); Land of the Rising Sun: British Commonwealth Air Occupation Force, Japan 1945-1948 by Tom Spencer; Tri-Motor Bushman: Australia's DHA Drover by Joop Gerritsma (3-view line drwg); Turbojets for Stalin: Some Facts Behind the Sale of British Jet Engines to Russia by Tony Buttler; Round-Out (readers letters: Fairey FD.2 long range tank, more on Roberta Cowell, RCAF P-51s memories, Airspeed and General Aircraft Fleet Shadower photos, USAF RF-80 colour drawings) [80 pages] | |
| 95 | September/October 2001 |
| Tac Recon Masters: The 66th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing in Europe Part Two by Doug Gordon; 'Unknown' Piper: Reviving the PT-1 by Gilles Auliard (restored Piper PT-1); Five to Nine: Evolving the Spitfire - A Detailed Examination of the Modifications (Mythical and Real) that Turned the Mk.V into the Mk.IX by Wotjek Matusiak (4 col profiles, 7 line drwgs, 4 col drwgs); Fokker's 'Paper' Fighters: Inter-War Projects by F Gerdessen (17 3- and 5-view line drwgs); Magnificent Mustang: A Production History of the North American P-51 by Ken Wixey (6 3-view line drwgs); Spain's Arrow HA-200 Saeta: The First Spanish Jet Aircraft by Gonzalo Avila Cruz; Argentina's 'Heavies': Avro Lancaster, Lincoln and Lancastrian in Military Service Part One by Atilio Marino, Vladimiro Celleto and Javier Mosquera; The Long Fight for Naval 'Wings': The Story of Brazilian Naval Aviation by Claudio Lucchesi (5 col profiles); Round-Out (readers letters: Douglas A-3 Skywarrior Association, Fairey FD.2 canopy, Hispano Saeta in the USA, Folland Fo 108 engines & Airspeed Queen Wasp, DH.86B in Finland correction) [80 pages] | |
| 96 | November/December 2001 |
| Not So Ideal: The McDonnell XP-67 'Bat' by Alain J Pelletier (3-view silhouette, 3-view col drwg); Balkan Birds: Thirty-Five Years of Bulgarian Aircraft Production Part Two by Dénes Bernád; The Test-Pilot's Test Pilot: Dassault's Jean-Marie Saget by Frédéric Lert; Hart of the Matter: Hawker's Hart Family Part One: The Hart Bomber and The Army Co-Op Audax by Ken Wixey; Spain's Arrow: HA-200 Saeta - Egypt's First Jet by Gonzalo Avila Cruz (5 col profiles, 3 col unit badges, 3-view line drwg); Time Warp Machine: Larry Kelly's Wonderful Bobcat by Gilles Auliard and John Baert (restored Cessna UC-78, 3-view silhouette); 'Ertugrul' The Blériot and 'Osmanli' The Deperdussin: Fledgling Turkish Military Aviation by David Nicolle (2 2-view col drwgs); Back to the Scene: Revisting São Tomé and its Memories by Micheal I Draper (Biafran airlift airport visit); Greek Interlude: Ferry Flight Tribulations by Shlomo Aloni (Israe | |