Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Grapevine - Our monthly review of happenings in the aircraft preservation world
Probe Probare No 21: Messerschmitt Bf109E-1 - Alec Lumsden and Terry Heffernan peruse the A&AEE's test reports of Messerschmitt Bf 109E-1 Werk Nr 1304. which found its way to the UK via a French orchard, where it had landed by mistake in November 1939
Golden anniversary: The Pairey Battle is 50 - A pictorial tribute to the much-maligned Fairey Battle, which first flew on March 10. 1935
H.P. - Part 1 - Kevin Desmond outlines the life and career of British aviation pioneer Sir Frederick Handley Page. who was born 100 years ago
Armchair Aviation
The air war over Vietnam - Part 2 - The second part of Philip D Chinnery's seven-part series covers the events of 1962-63, including helicopter support missions, the first defoliation flights and the huge growth of American strength in South Vietnam
Personal Album - More photographs from readers' photo albums
A quiet week in Kent - Chris Cardus. who won last year's Gliding Holiday Competition, reports on the joys of silent fliaht
Fw 190 wreckovery - Colour coverage of the wreckage of a Luftwaffe Fw 190 recovered in Northern Norway
Sea Fury - Part 3 - In Patt Three of his series Ray Williams describes Sea Fury operations in the Korean War, with the aid of original combat reports
British pre-war ultra-light aircraft No 58: Westland Widgeon I - Richard Riding describes another contender for the 1924 Lympne trials for two-seater aircraft
Preservation Profile - Dart Kitten G-AEXT. built in 1937. has recently been restored to flying condition. Its history is recounted by Clive Stubbmgs, its present owner
Wings of Peace - John Stroud continues his series on inter-war European transport aircraft with the civil conversion of the World War One Handley Page 0/400 bomber, which served as a stopgap until the arrival of that company's first pure civil transport aircraft, the W series
The barnstormer's apprentice - Part 4 - In Part Four of his story of pre-war barn-storming Harry Morris recalls the end of the first season's touring with Berkshire Aviation Tours and the start of the big time with Sir Alan Cobham 's air circus
Arctic venture - Part 1 - Roy Nesbit begins a five-part article on RAF Catalina flying-boat operations inside the Arctic Circle during World War Two In Part One he describes the background to Operation Fntham. fhe 7942 Allied plan to occupy the islands of Spitsbergen to protect the northern convoy route
Front Cover - The Royal Navy Historic Aircraft Flight's Hawker Sea Fury T Mk 20S, WG655, is the subject of our cover photograph, taken in September 1985.
Probe Probare No 21: Messerschmitt Bf109E-1 - Alec Lumsden and Terry Heffernan peruse the A&AEE's test reports of Messerschmitt Bf 109E-1 Werk Nr 1304. which found its way to the UK via a French orchard, where it had landed by mistake in November 1939
Golden anniversary: The Pairey Battle is 50 - A pictorial tribute to the much-maligned Fairey Battle, which first flew on March 10. 1935
H.P. - Part 1 - Kevin Desmond outlines the life and career of British aviation pioneer Sir Frederick Handley Page. who was born 100 years ago
Armchair Aviation
The air war over Vietnam - Part 2 - The second part of Philip D Chinnery's seven-part series covers the events of 1962-63, including helicopter support missions, the first defoliation flights and the huge growth of American strength in South Vietnam
Personal Album - More photographs from readers' photo albums
A quiet week in Kent - Chris Cardus. who won last year's Gliding Holiday Competition, reports on the joys of silent fliaht
Fw 190 wreckovery - Colour coverage of the wreckage of a Luftwaffe Fw 190 recovered in Northern Norway
Sea Fury - Part 3 - In Patt Three of his series Ray Williams describes Sea Fury operations in the Korean War, with the aid of original combat reports
British pre-war ultra-light aircraft No 58: Westland Widgeon I - Richard Riding describes another contender for the 1924 Lympne trials for two-seater aircraft
Preservation Profile - Dart Kitten G-AEXT. built in 1937. has recently been restored to flying condition. Its history is recounted by Clive Stubbmgs, its present owner
Wings of Peace - John Stroud continues his series on inter-war European transport aircraft with the civil conversion of the World War One Handley Page 0/400 bomber, which served as a stopgap until the arrival of that company's first pure civil transport aircraft, the W series
The barnstormer's apprentice - Part 4 - In Part Four of his story of pre-war barn-storming Harry Morris recalls the end of the first season's touring with Berkshire Aviation Tours and the start of the big time with Sir Alan Cobham 's air circus
Arctic venture - Part 1 - Roy Nesbit begins a five-part article on RAF Catalina flying-boat operations inside the Arctic Circle during World War Two In Part One he describes the background to Operation Fntham. fhe 7942 Allied plan to occupy the islands of Spitsbergen to protect the northern convoy route
Front Cover - The Royal Navy Historic Aircraft Flight's Hawker Sea Fury T Mk 20S, WG655, is the subject of our cover photograph, taken in September 1985.
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