Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Grapevine - Michael Oakey's monthly review of happenings in the aircraft preservation world
Tangmere Summer - Roland Beamont recalls testing the P-51 D and the Bf 109 with the CFE's Tactics Branch in 1945
What did happen to General Sikorski? - J. Barteiski investigates the B-24 crash which killed the Polish leader in 1943
Rejuvenated Gnat - Tim Manna's recently-restored Folland Gnat Trainer is the subject of David Muscroft's colour feature
By day & by night - Owen Thetford recounts the RAF service of the Handley Page Hyderabad and Hinaidi bombers
Fathers Of British aviation - no 7 - Ken Aitken's caricature of Harry Hawker
Operation Wingate - Sqn Ldr R. A. Collis and Sqn Ldr F. Bavin-Smith conclude their two-part account of how they flew Orde Wingate into the Abyssinian highlands to help thwart an Italian advance in 1941
Nieuport 28 - Howard Levy reports on another of the Alabama-based Replica Fighter Museum's eyecatching World War One reproductions
Strewth! - That MiG-29 collision
Gloster's Nene machine - The single-engined Gloster E.1/44's less than meteoric career is traced by Barry Jones
Trixie and T-Force - The late Charles E. Prower recalls his involvement with the GAL 55 glider and a visit to Germany
Sling's Sailplanes - Martin Simons describes the gull-winged Petrel
Preservation profile - Richard Paver recounts the history of recently-restored Spitfire LF.IX MK732/G-HVDM
RAF heavy guns - A. Williams concludes his history of the RAF's heavy armament
Schneider Trophy - 80th anniversary cartoonist Holly spotlights some racing high spots
Post-War propliners - John Stroud describes the llyushin 1.1-12 and 11-14
Armchair aviation - Melvyn Hiscock's review of books and videos
Personal album - Gloster-related photographs from the album of the late Michael Daunt
Crosswind with John Maynard
Competitions - This month's Diversions page features chances to win a flight in a Dragon Rapide, plus books on Sunderland G-BJHS
Front Cover - The Old Flying Machine Company's Spitfire IX MH434 celebrated its 50th birthday with a flying afternoon at Duxford on July 25. Now back in its 222 (Natal) Squadron markings, the fighter was photographed over Wyton, in the hands of Mark Hanna by JOHN DIBBS
Tangmere Summer - Roland Beamont recalls testing the P-51 D and the Bf 109 with the CFE's Tactics Branch in 1945
What did happen to General Sikorski? - J. Barteiski investigates the B-24 crash which killed the Polish leader in 1943
Rejuvenated Gnat - Tim Manna's recently-restored Folland Gnat Trainer is the subject of David Muscroft's colour feature
By day & by night - Owen Thetford recounts the RAF service of the Handley Page Hyderabad and Hinaidi bombers
Fathers Of British aviation - no 7 - Ken Aitken's caricature of Harry Hawker
Operation Wingate - Sqn Ldr R. A. Collis and Sqn Ldr F. Bavin-Smith conclude their two-part account of how they flew Orde Wingate into the Abyssinian highlands to help thwart an Italian advance in 1941
Nieuport 28 - Howard Levy reports on another of the Alabama-based Replica Fighter Museum's eyecatching World War One reproductions
Strewth! - That MiG-29 collision
Gloster's Nene machine - The single-engined Gloster E.1/44's less than meteoric career is traced by Barry Jones
Trixie and T-Force - The late Charles E. Prower recalls his involvement with the GAL 55 glider and a visit to Germany
Sling's Sailplanes - Martin Simons describes the gull-winged Petrel
Preservation profile - Richard Paver recounts the history of recently-restored Spitfire LF.IX MK732/G-HVDM
RAF heavy guns - A. Williams concludes his history of the RAF's heavy armament
Schneider Trophy - 80th anniversary cartoonist Holly spotlights some racing high spots
Post-War propliners - John Stroud describes the llyushin 1.1-12 and 11-14
Armchair aviation - Melvyn Hiscock's review of books and videos
Personal album - Gloster-related photographs from the album of the late Michael Daunt
Crosswind with John Maynard
Competitions - This month's Diversions page features chances to win a flight in a Dragon Rapide, plus books on Sunderland G-BJHS
Front Cover - The Old Flying Machine Company's Spitfire IX MH434 celebrated its 50th birthday with a flying afternoon at Duxford on July 25. Now back in its 222 (Natal) Squadron markings, the fighter was photographed over Wyton, in the hands of Mark Hanna by JOHN DIBBS
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