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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Grapevine - Our monthly review of happenings in the aircraft preservation world
At last! the 1948 show - On the eve of the 1986 SBAC Farnborough air show we pay a return visit to the very first SBAC Farnborough show, held in 1948. Important newcomers were the prototype Vickers Viscount and the Nene Viking, the world's first pure-jet airliner
Probe probare No 28: Gloster Gladiator - Continuing their series on aircraft which received special attention from the Aeroplane & Armament Experimental Establishment, Alee Lumsden and Terry Heffernan examine the development of the Gloster Gladiator, the RAF's last biplane fighter
Snowdonian sharp-shooter - Andrew Johnson reveals the art of photographing RAF fast jets at low level in the Welsh valleys
The basketweave bomber - Part 2 - Eric Morgan and Edward Shacklady continue Their development history of the Vickers Wellington bomber and examine the improved sub-types of the Wellington-Mark I
Putrefaction profile - The prototype D.H.114 Heron is festering away in Australia while an interminable legal wrangle over its ownership battles on. Mervyn Prime gives a potted history of this historic airliner
For business and pleasure - No 3 - Mike Jerram continues his series on British post-war private and club aircraft with the Miles M. 28, which first appeared in 1 941 as a service trainer/communications aircraft
Skywriters
Henschel Hs 123 - A chapter from artist Michael Turner's latest book: Luftwaffe Aircraft
The air war over Vietnam?Part 9 - In Part Nine of his series Philip D. Chinnery recalls the .north Vietnamese invasion of spring 1972, to which the Americans resolutely responded with the Linebacker campaigns
Personal album - To mark the 50th anniversary of the start of the Spanish Civil War, a selection of pictures of Spanish military aircraft in service shortly before the conflict began
Dutch courage - Rupert D, Cooling recalls a young RAFVR pilot's initiation into aerial warfare, as second pilot aboard a Vickers Wellington bound for occupied Holland
Preservation profile - An Australian Avro Cadet is this month's subject
Wings of peace - John Stroud's series on between-the-wars European airliners continues with the Dornier Wal (Whale) flying-boats of the Twenties and Thirties
Circus pilot - Part 5 - Wg Cdr F. T. K. Bullmore winds up his five-part account of flying with Sir Alan Cobham's "flying circus" with memories of his rotary-winged participation in the 1.935 National Aviation Day Display
Armchair aviation
At last! the 1948 show - On the eve of the 1986 SBAC Farnborough air show we pay a return visit to the very first SBAC Farnborough show, held in 1948. Important newcomers were the prototype Vickers Viscount and the Nene Viking, the world's first pure-jet airliner
Probe probare No 28: Gloster Gladiator - Continuing their series on aircraft which received special attention from the Aeroplane & Armament Experimental Establishment, Alee Lumsden and Terry Heffernan examine the development of the Gloster Gladiator, the RAF's last biplane fighter
Snowdonian sharp-shooter - Andrew Johnson reveals the art of photographing RAF fast jets at low level in the Welsh valleys
The basketweave bomber - Part 2 - Eric Morgan and Edward Shacklady continue Their development history of the Vickers Wellington bomber and examine the improved sub-types of the Wellington-Mark I
Putrefaction profile - The prototype D.H.114 Heron is festering away in Australia while an interminable legal wrangle over its ownership battles on. Mervyn Prime gives a potted history of this historic airliner
For business and pleasure - No 3 - Mike Jerram continues his series on British post-war private and club aircraft with the Miles M. 28, which first appeared in 1 941 as a service trainer/communications aircraft
Skywriters
Henschel Hs 123 - A chapter from artist Michael Turner's latest book: Luftwaffe Aircraft
The air war over Vietnam?Part 9 - In Part Nine of his series Philip D. Chinnery recalls the .north Vietnamese invasion of spring 1972, to which the Americans resolutely responded with the Linebacker campaigns
Personal album - To mark the 50th anniversary of the start of the Spanish Civil War, a selection of pictures of Spanish military aircraft in service shortly before the conflict began
Dutch courage - Rupert D, Cooling recalls a young RAFVR pilot's initiation into aerial warfare, as second pilot aboard a Vickers Wellington bound for occupied Holland
Preservation profile - An Australian Avro Cadet is this month's subject
Wings of peace - John Stroud's series on between-the-wars European airliners continues with the Dornier Wal (Whale) flying-boats of the Twenties and Thirties
Circus pilot - Part 5 - Wg Cdr F. T. K. Bullmore winds up his five-part account of flying with Sir Alan Cobham's "flying circus" with memories of his rotary-winged participation in the 1.935 National Aviation Day Display
Armchair aviation
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