Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Features:
The First SAM Showdown - Dr Alfred Price explains how the USAF devised a method of foxing North Vietnamese surface-to-air missiles
Yak in the Green - Pilot Angie Soper owns and operates a Yak-11 combat trainer. Report and photographs by Richard Paver
Saint-Exupery-The Long Goodbye - Roy C. Nesbit opens his two-part account of the last turbulent months of the famous French pilot and poet
Bermuda by Starlight - The short-lived British South American Airways was blighted by mishaps and accidents, lan Ottaway relates' the demise ofAvro Lancastrian Star Light
New Brews from Belgium - Challenges facing the Belgian Royal Army Museum's aviation collection
Handley Page's Aerial Omnibus - In 1918, a Handley Page V/1500 carried 40 passengers into the record books - Johnny de Uphaugh describes the flight
The Last of a Line - The history and flying qualities of Britain's last biplane fighter, the Gloster Gladiator, by David Ogiivy
Arthur Bowbeer - 1922-2007 - Technical artist Tim Hall pays tribute to one of the great masters of the modern cutaway illustration
I'll be in the Garage...In a witty twist to its usual fare, Haynes has published the Spitfire Owners' Workshop Manual
Regulars:
News - All the latest preservation news, compiled by Tony Harmsworth
Dogfight - Are inaccurate colour schemes on restored aircraft excusable?
From the Archives - Features Editor Nick Stroud looks back 80 years - to 1928
Aircrew - In the fourth of our features on aircrew roles, James Kightly looks at the challenges facing the pilot of a Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive bomber
Readers' Archive - Reader Maurice Wood shares his photographs, collected while working for a Zimbabwean newspaper
Picture of the Month - In what will no doubt be another popular choice, January's image is of a Hawker Hunter F.1
Skywriters - A selection of readers' letters on a wide range of topics
Flying Visit - Melvyn Hiscock's willing participant this month is David "Rats" Ratcliffe
Crosswind - John Pricker provides sideways comment on the aviation world
Database: The Consolidated Cataline:
Catalina specialist DAVID LEGG describes the genesis and development of Consolidated's famous flying-boat
- The origins of the PBY- includes scale drawings by Tim Hall
- With war looming, Consolidated began to build the PBY-5 in numbers
- A technical description of the Catalina, with cutaway illustration
- The ubiquitous flying-boat provided fine service throughout World War Two
- Civil and foreign use - The Catalina's role as an airliner and in service abroad
- What was the Cat like to fly?
- Survivors - there are still a good number of Catalinas existing today
Navigator:
Our Navigator section at the back of the magazine tells you all you need to know about what to buy and where to go:
- Three Greens
- Book Reviews
- Flyleaves - classic book review
- Christmas gift ideas
- Airshows & Events, High Society
- Registration Update
- Information Exchange
- Aeroplane services - back-issues,
- subscriptions, binders, newsagent order form, annual index and more
- Contacts and next month in Aeroplane
The First SAM Showdown - Dr Alfred Price explains how the USAF devised a method of foxing North Vietnamese surface-to-air missiles
Yak in the Green - Pilot Angie Soper owns and operates a Yak-11 combat trainer. Report and photographs by Richard Paver
Saint-Exupery-The Long Goodbye - Roy C. Nesbit opens his two-part account of the last turbulent months of the famous French pilot and poet
Bermuda by Starlight - The short-lived British South American Airways was blighted by mishaps and accidents, lan Ottaway relates' the demise ofAvro Lancastrian Star Light
New Brews from Belgium - Challenges facing the Belgian Royal Army Museum's aviation collection
Handley Page's Aerial Omnibus - In 1918, a Handley Page V/1500 carried 40 passengers into the record books - Johnny de Uphaugh describes the flight
The Last of a Line - The history and flying qualities of Britain's last biplane fighter, the Gloster Gladiator, by David Ogiivy
Arthur Bowbeer - 1922-2007 - Technical artist Tim Hall pays tribute to one of the great masters of the modern cutaway illustration
I'll be in the Garage...In a witty twist to its usual fare, Haynes has published the Spitfire Owners' Workshop Manual
Regulars:
News - All the latest preservation news, compiled by Tony Harmsworth
Dogfight - Are inaccurate colour schemes on restored aircraft excusable?
From the Archives - Features Editor Nick Stroud looks back 80 years - to 1928
Aircrew - In the fourth of our features on aircrew roles, James Kightly looks at the challenges facing the pilot of a Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive bomber
Readers' Archive - Reader Maurice Wood shares his photographs, collected while working for a Zimbabwean newspaper
Picture of the Month - In what will no doubt be another popular choice, January's image is of a Hawker Hunter F.1
Skywriters - A selection of readers' letters on a wide range of topics
Flying Visit - Melvyn Hiscock's willing participant this month is David "Rats" Ratcliffe
Crosswind - John Pricker provides sideways comment on the aviation world
Database: The Consolidated Cataline:
Catalina specialist DAVID LEGG describes the genesis and development of Consolidated's famous flying-boat
- The origins of the PBY- includes scale drawings by Tim Hall
- With war looming, Consolidated began to build the PBY-5 in numbers
- A technical description of the Catalina, with cutaway illustration
- The ubiquitous flying-boat provided fine service throughout World War Two
- Civil and foreign use - The Catalina's role as an airliner and in service abroad
- What was the Cat like to fly?
- Survivors - there are still a good number of Catalinas existing today
Navigator:
Our Navigator section at the back of the magazine tells you all you need to know about what to buy and where to go:
- Three Greens
- Book Reviews
- Flyleaves - classic book review
- Christmas gift ideas
- Airshows & Events, High Society
- Registration Update
- Information Exchange
- Aeroplane services - back-issues,
- subscriptions, binders, newsagent order form, annual index and more
- Contacts and next month in Aeroplane
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