Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Grapevine - Michael Oakey's monthly review of happenings in the aircraft preservation world
What did happen to Glenn Miller? - Roy Nesbit begins a new and revealing two-part investigation of one of aviation's greatest mysteries
Probe probare - Alec Lumsden and Terry Heffernan conclude their series on aircraft which received special attention from the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment with the Bristol Blenheim IV
Skywriters
Swish miss - Howard Levy describes Steve Pitcairn's beautifully restored 55-year-old Pitcairn PCA-2, NC11609 Miss Champion, the world's .only flying pre-war Autogiro, which stole the show at Oshkosh '86
On the wing - This spectacular new IMAX film is now being shown on a screen five storeys high at Bradford
Qantas Cat ops - Part 3 - The third and final extract from Capt L. R. Ambrose's remarkable first-hand report of 1945 on Qantas's wartime Indian Ocean service, which used Catalina flying-boats to keep the Empire air route to Australia open via a 3,500-mile non-stop ocean crossing, opens with the navigation problems peculiar to the route
Fast and furious - Part 1 - G. Cains begins a two-part biography of flying instructor and fighter pilot Frank Dawson-Paul, grandson of the founder of the Boulton and Paul company
Armchair aviation
Photographic Competition results - The five winning entries of our recent camera competition
Christmas quiz - Our annual Christmas competitions page includes a recognition quiz, a wordsquare and a funny caption competition
For business and pleasure - Mike Jerram continues his series on British post-war private and club aircraft with Part Two of his article on the twin-engined Miles Gemini, one of British light aviation's rare successes
Preservation profile - The Air Museum's Curtiss P-40N-5-CU Warhawk, N85104, is this month's subject, researched by Frank B. Mormillo
Wing of peace - John Stroud's regular feature on between-the-wars European airliners continues with the German Zanonia-winged Focke-Wulfs
Personal album - A selection of mainly German World War Two aircraft photographed by a 438 Sqn RCAF mechanic during the final months of the war
The basketweave bomber?Part 6 - In the sixth and final part of their development history of the Vickers Wellington, Eric Morgan and Edward Shacklady examine the Marks VII-XIX, including Coastal Command's anti-submarine Leigh light conversions
Front Cover - HOWARD levy's cover photograph depicts ihe world's only flying pre-war Autogiro. Sieve Pilcairn's beautifully-restored 55-year-old Pitcairn PCA-2. NC11609 Miss Champion, flying over the New Jersey countryside during the summer of 1986
What did happen to Glenn Miller? - Roy Nesbit begins a new and revealing two-part investigation of one of aviation's greatest mysteries
Probe probare - Alec Lumsden and Terry Heffernan conclude their series on aircraft which received special attention from the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment with the Bristol Blenheim IV
Skywriters
Swish miss - Howard Levy describes Steve Pitcairn's beautifully restored 55-year-old Pitcairn PCA-2, NC11609 Miss Champion, the world's .only flying pre-war Autogiro, which stole the show at Oshkosh '86
On the wing - This spectacular new IMAX film is now being shown on a screen five storeys high at Bradford
Qantas Cat ops - Part 3 - The third and final extract from Capt L. R. Ambrose's remarkable first-hand report of 1945 on Qantas's wartime Indian Ocean service, which used Catalina flying-boats to keep the Empire air route to Australia open via a 3,500-mile non-stop ocean crossing, opens with the navigation problems peculiar to the route
Fast and furious - Part 1 - G. Cains begins a two-part biography of flying instructor and fighter pilot Frank Dawson-Paul, grandson of the founder of the Boulton and Paul company
Armchair aviation
Photographic Competition results - The five winning entries of our recent camera competition
Christmas quiz - Our annual Christmas competitions page includes a recognition quiz, a wordsquare and a funny caption competition
For business and pleasure - Mike Jerram continues his series on British post-war private and club aircraft with Part Two of his article on the twin-engined Miles Gemini, one of British light aviation's rare successes
Preservation profile - The Air Museum's Curtiss P-40N-5-CU Warhawk, N85104, is this month's subject, researched by Frank B. Mormillo
Wing of peace - John Stroud's regular feature on between-the-wars European airliners continues with the German Zanonia-winged Focke-Wulfs
Personal album - A selection of mainly German World War Two aircraft photographed by a 438 Sqn RCAF mechanic during the final months of the war
The basketweave bomber?Part 6 - In the sixth and final part of their development history of the Vickers Wellington, Eric Morgan and Edward Shacklady examine the Marks VII-XIX, including Coastal Command's anti-submarine Leigh light conversions
Front Cover - HOWARD levy's cover photograph depicts ihe world's only flying pre-war Autogiro. Sieve Pilcairn's beautifully-restored 55-year-old Pitcairn PCA-2. NC11609 Miss Champion, flying over the New Jersey countryside during the summer of 1986
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