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egular Features World News A View from the Hill Commercial News ATC News Airport News Orders and Leases Air Log NATO Notes US Military Archaeology Books Obituaries Preservation Your Questions Answered US Airlines Airport Movements Register Review China Flies Stealth Strike Fighter Coinciding with a visit by the US Defence Secretary, China sprang a surprise and took the J-20 stealth fighter into the air for the first time. What was that all about? And why did it happen when it did? The Editor gets opinionated. Expediting the Mail Long before the halcyon days of non-stop transatlantic flights, mail got delivered by seaplanes catapulted from ocean liners in a commercial race to be first, a contest fought between the French and the Germans, at least according to Hugh Cowin. Return of the Harpoon Rescued from obscurity and brought back to flying condition, a long lost Lockheed Harpoon fi re-bomber is once again plying the California skies, as Jim Dunn found out. Airbus A310 Long out of production, and not the best seller from Airbus, we look at the numerical successor to the A300 and review its origin and some of the ways it influenced not only future Airbus designs but also those from Boeing! The Incomparable Harrier More than 40 years after it first equipped the RAF, we celebrate a remarkable technical achievement, one of the last great British aerospace legends, the Harrier, and recall how it came about and how it evolved. Operational Harrier Units Peter Foster logs the operational units equipped with the Harrier from the first to the last and gives a snapshot of operations at home and abroad. Nordic Legend Dakotas are two-a-penny but a group of enthusiasts in Scandinavia have one they treat with very special care. Geoff Jones visited them and went along for the ride. MilitÃÃ
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