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SAC SHAPES UP - Lindsay Peacock describes the various ways in which the USAF's Strategic Air Command is modernising in order to maintain the US deterrent with aircraft and missiles.' HERCULES IN THE RAF - Operations in the South Atlantic imposed a heavy load on the RAF's transport force, and led to the rapid development and deploy- ment of new versions of the Hercules, as fully described here for the first time. MOSQUITO FIGHTER VARIANTS - The second instalment of our "Warbirds" feature, in which we describe and illustrate the fighter variants of the Mosquito used by the RAF up to the end of World War II. TRAINING UNDER - THE SUN Like the Luftwaffe, the German national airline Lufthansa has chosen to base its pilot training programme in the USA. Roger Anthoine provides a first-hand account from Arizona. 54 AIRSCENE The monthly round-up of news and background to the news presented under section headings for Military Affairs, Aircraft and Industry, Civil Affairs and new Civil and Military Aircraft Contracts. WAITING IN THE WINGS? - Bill Sweetman reports from the US West Coast on US Navy STOVL plans. MODEL ENTHUSIAST - Modelling comments, the latest kits reviewed and a page of colour profiles of the de Havilland Mosquito. IN PRINT - New aviation literature noted. FIGHTER A TO Z - Continuing the AIR INTERNATIONAL encyclopaedia of the world's fighter aircraft, from the lkaruslK-2 to the I. M. A.M. Ro41. TALKBACK - Readers of AIR international offer comments of general interest. FRONT COVER - The first Lockheed Hercules C Mk 1 fitted (by Marshall of Cambridge) with an air-to-air refuelling probe, takes on fuel from the first Hercules C Mk 1 (K) tanker.
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