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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
REGULARS:
NEWS - All the latest preservation news from the UK and around the world, presented by Tony Harmsworth - including Duxford's latest National Lottery award and a report from this year's Oshkosh show
LOST & FOUND - Philip Jarrett puzzles over a mystery airframe exhibited at a post-war Leuchars airshow
SKYWRITERS - Readers' letters on a wide variety of topics
FLYING VISIT - A potted interview with warbird/film pilot and restorer Steve Hinton, by Melvyn Hiscock
HIGH SOCIETY - The Vintage Aircraft Club is this month's subject
LOOKING BACK - Nick Stroud browses in The Aeroplane of 70 years ago ? October 1931
CROSSWIND - Sideways comment on the aviation world, from John Maynard
FEATURES:
SEA FURY FIRST - On his retirement as CO of the Royal Navy Historic Flight, Cdr Phil Shaw reveals what it was like to pilot the flight's recently-restored Hawker Sea Fury for the first time
CIVIL STARS - Pictures of three rare Oshkosh visitors - each of which has made civil aviation history
ROYAL OCCASION - Roland Beamont, former chief test pilot of English Electric, recounts how he was sent to Jordan in 1965 to fly a Lightning for King Hussein
Dr BACHEM'S RADICAL SOLUTION - Dr Alfred Price assesses Germany's late-war Bachem Natter rocket interceptor fighter
HUNTER HIGHLIFE - lan Frimston's photographs capture the memorable Hawker Hunter 50th anniversary event at Kemble
GUNSHIPS OVER KANSAS - Michael O'Leary reports from the USA on a newly-restored Douglas C-47 "Spooky" Vietnam gunship ? and photographs it in formation with a present-day "Spooky II" Hercules
A SUMMER AT LEISURE - Former display pilot Don Daines recalls flying Leisure Sport's replicas in the summer of 1977
A TOUCH OF CLASS - Nick Stroud goes flying with a group of Aeroplane prizewinners in Classic Wings' Dragon Rapide
RESEARCHING CORGI'S MODELS - Adrian Balch describes his part in making Corgi's Aviation Archive collectors' models accurate
DATABASE - SUPERMARINE'S SGHNEDER TROPHY SEAPLANES:
THE SCHNEIDER TROPHY - Derek James sets the scene for the development of the Schneider race-winning S.5, S.6 and S.6B
THE SUPERMARINE S.5 - Its conception, construction and flying, and the 1927 race, by Derek James
SCALE DRAWINGS - S.5 three-view, with comparative views of the S.6B, by Giuseppe Picarella
THE SUPERMARINE S.6 - Derek James describes the new and faster machine for the 1929 race
THE SUPERMARINE S.6B - How private enterprise overcame political opposition and led to the 1931 victory, by Derek James
CUTAWAY DRAWING - The anatomy of the S.6B, by Mike Badrocke
THE DIVIDEND - Derek James explains the historic significance of the Schneider achievement
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NEWS - All the latest preservation news from the UK and around the world, presented by Tony Harmsworth - including Duxford's latest National Lottery award and a report from this year's Oshkosh show
LOST & FOUND - Philip Jarrett puzzles over a mystery airframe exhibited at a post-war Leuchars airshow
SKYWRITERS - Readers' letters on a wide variety of topics
FLYING VISIT - A potted interview with warbird/film pilot and restorer Steve Hinton, by Melvyn Hiscock
HIGH SOCIETY - The Vintage Aircraft Club is this month's subject
LOOKING BACK - Nick Stroud browses in The Aeroplane of 70 years ago ? October 1931
CROSSWIND - Sideways comment on the aviation world, from John Maynard
FEATURES:
SEA FURY FIRST - On his retirement as CO of the Royal Navy Historic Flight, Cdr Phil Shaw reveals what it was like to pilot the flight's recently-restored Hawker Sea Fury for the first time
CIVIL STARS - Pictures of three rare Oshkosh visitors - each of which has made civil aviation history
ROYAL OCCASION - Roland Beamont, former chief test pilot of English Electric, recounts how he was sent to Jordan in 1965 to fly a Lightning for King Hussein
Dr BACHEM'S RADICAL SOLUTION - Dr Alfred Price assesses Germany's late-war Bachem Natter rocket interceptor fighter
HUNTER HIGHLIFE - lan Frimston's photographs capture the memorable Hawker Hunter 50th anniversary event at Kemble
GUNSHIPS OVER KANSAS - Michael O'Leary reports from the USA on a newly-restored Douglas C-47 "Spooky" Vietnam gunship ? and photographs it in formation with a present-day "Spooky II" Hercules
A SUMMER AT LEISURE - Former display pilot Don Daines recalls flying Leisure Sport's replicas in the summer of 1977
A TOUCH OF CLASS - Nick Stroud goes flying with a group of Aeroplane prizewinners in Classic Wings' Dragon Rapide
RESEARCHING CORGI'S MODELS - Adrian Balch describes his part in making Corgi's Aviation Archive collectors' models accurate
DATABASE - SUPERMARINE'S SGHNEDER TROPHY SEAPLANES:
THE SCHNEIDER TROPHY - Derek James sets the scene for the development of the Schneider race-winning S.5, S.6 and S.6B
THE SUPERMARINE S.5 - Its conception, construction and flying, and the 1927 race, by Derek James
SCALE DRAWINGS - S.5 three-view, with comparative views of the S.6B, by Giuseppe Picarella
THE SUPERMARINE S.6 - Derek James describes the new and faster machine for the 1929 race
THE SUPERMARINE S.6B - How private enterprise overcame political opposition and led to the 1931 victory, by Derek James
CUTAWAY DRAWING - The anatomy of the S.6B, by Mike Badrocke
THE DIVIDEND - Derek James explains the historic significance of the Schneider achievement
Just when you think It's all over...Our Navigator section at the back of the magazine tells you all you need to know about what to buy and where to go:
Book reviews
Special offers
Internet review
More offers
Information exchange
Airshows and events
Fleet Air Arm Museum reader day
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Aeroplane services
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