Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
VINTAGE NEWS - The latest aircraft preservation news, with Michael Oakey
MONINO - Recent pictures from the Russian Air Force Museum at Monino, Moscow, taken by Fraser Gray
STRATOJETS OVER THE USSR - Paul Lashmar reveals details of secret USAF B-47 spying missions over Russia
GREAT MOMENTS IN AVIATION - David Baker and Mike Roffe recount Jim Mollison's solo East - West Atlantic flight of 1932
DELTA DEVELOPMENTS - Eric Morgan looks at the development of Gloster's distinctive Javelin, the world's first twin-jet delta fighter
TESTED AND FAILED - Derek Collier Webb begins a new series on flight test accidents from the 1940s to the 1960s. His first subject is the troublesome Westland Welkin high-altitude fighter
PRESERVATION PROFILE - jet Heritage's all-red Hawker Hunter F.4 XE677/G-HHUN is this month's subject
JM GRAPPLE YEARS - Former 100 Sqn Canberra pilot Mike Retallack con- cludes his recollections of taking part in Operation Grapple, the British H-bomb trials in the Pacific in the Fifties
MILITARY PERSONAL ALBUM - a gallery of inter-war carrier-based biplanes
THE ACES: IMMELMANN - Ken Aitken caricatures German First World War fighter ace Max Immelmann
LORD OF THE FLIES - A stint on bug-spraying duties on Christmas Island in the Pacific, flying Auster 9s, is recalled by W.K. Wightman ? with superb 1960s colour photographs by the author
NOCTURNAL NAVIGATOR - Ted Hooton recounts his metamorphosis from aviation-mad schoolboy to night-fighter Mosquito navigator in the 1940s and 1950s
FANTASY OF FLIGHT - Mike Vines reports from Florida on Kermit Week's newly-opened multi-million dolooar aviation theme park
CIVIL PERSOSAL ALBUM - Remarkable' photographs, most of them air-to-air, of Cobham's air circus
ARMCHAIR AVIATION - More books and videos reviewed by Melvyn Hiscock
BY DAY AND BY NIGHT - In the final instalment of our series on RAF inter-war biplane bombers, Owen Thetford examines the service history of the Handley Page Heyford
SKYWRITERS - Readers' letters
A SPEEDBIRD'S STORY - Civil Liberators take centre stage as Tony Spooner concludes his account of flying with BOAC in the early years after World War Two
PRISONER AND ESCORT - Photographs of a captured Focke-Wulf Fw 190 in formation with two Spitfires in 1944
QUESTIONS IN THE AIR - More questions and answers from read- ers, on a wide variety of topics
COMPETITION - This month's Diversions competition features the chance to win 40min of warbird-style flying in Transport Command Ltd's Shoreham-based North American Harvard. No previous flying experience is necessary, so sea- soned aircrew and complete beginners are equally welcome to enter!
FRONT COVER - This month's dramatic cover picture, taken by JOHN DIBBS, depicts jet Heritage's all-red Hawker Hunter F.4 XE677/G-HHUN, restored to flying condition in 1989-94 after nearly three decades as an instructional airframe at Loughborough College. The Hunter is the subject of this month's Preservation Profile on pages 56-57
MONINO - Recent pictures from the Russian Air Force Museum at Monino, Moscow, taken by Fraser Gray
STRATOJETS OVER THE USSR - Paul Lashmar reveals details of secret USAF B-47 spying missions over Russia
GREAT MOMENTS IN AVIATION - David Baker and Mike Roffe recount Jim Mollison's solo East - West Atlantic flight of 1932
DELTA DEVELOPMENTS - Eric Morgan looks at the development of Gloster's distinctive Javelin, the world's first twin-jet delta fighter
TESTED AND FAILED - Derek Collier Webb begins a new series on flight test accidents from the 1940s to the 1960s. His first subject is the troublesome Westland Welkin high-altitude fighter
PRESERVATION PROFILE - jet Heritage's all-red Hawker Hunter F.4 XE677/G-HHUN is this month's subject
JM GRAPPLE YEARS - Former 100 Sqn Canberra pilot Mike Retallack con- cludes his recollections of taking part in Operation Grapple, the British H-bomb trials in the Pacific in the Fifties
MILITARY PERSONAL ALBUM - a gallery of inter-war carrier-based biplanes
THE ACES: IMMELMANN - Ken Aitken caricatures German First World War fighter ace Max Immelmann
LORD OF THE FLIES - A stint on bug-spraying duties on Christmas Island in the Pacific, flying Auster 9s, is recalled by W.K. Wightman ? with superb 1960s colour photographs by the author
NOCTURNAL NAVIGATOR - Ted Hooton recounts his metamorphosis from aviation-mad schoolboy to night-fighter Mosquito navigator in the 1940s and 1950s
FANTASY OF FLIGHT - Mike Vines reports from Florida on Kermit Week's newly-opened multi-million dolooar aviation theme park
CIVIL PERSOSAL ALBUM - Remarkable' photographs, most of them air-to-air, of Cobham's air circus
ARMCHAIR AVIATION - More books and videos reviewed by Melvyn Hiscock
BY DAY AND BY NIGHT - In the final instalment of our series on RAF inter-war biplane bombers, Owen Thetford examines the service history of the Handley Page Heyford
SKYWRITERS - Readers' letters
A SPEEDBIRD'S STORY - Civil Liberators take centre stage as Tony Spooner concludes his account of flying with BOAC in the early years after World War Two
PRISONER AND ESCORT - Photographs of a captured Focke-Wulf Fw 190 in formation with two Spitfires in 1944
QUESTIONS IN THE AIR - More questions and answers from read- ers, on a wide variety of topics
COMPETITION - This month's Diversions competition features the chance to win 40min of warbird-style flying in Transport Command Ltd's Shoreham-based North American Harvard. No previous flying experience is necessary, so sea- soned aircrew and complete beginners are equally welcome to enter!
FRONT COVER - This month's dramatic cover picture, taken by JOHN DIBBS, depicts jet Heritage's all-red Hawker Hunter F.4 XE677/G-HHUN, restored to flying condition in 1989-94 after nearly three decades as an instructional airframe at Loughborough College. The Hunter is the subject of this month's Preservation Profile on pages 56-57
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