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IXER, FINDER, STRIKER: THE S-3A VIKING - The turbofan-powered, computer-equipped Lockheed S-3A Viking is now entering service with the US Navy. David W H Godfrey here describes the background to development of this important new aeroplane and gives details of its ASW system. IBERIAN AIR COVER - Now approaching the 35th anniversary of its foundation soon after the end of the Civil War, the Spanish air arm, the Ejercito del Aire, has had a long struggle to achieve a respectable standard of equipment. The recent acquisition of several new types of combat and support aircraft is now bringing about a major modernization, as this account reveals. ASSESSING AN ANACHRONISM - Captain Eric Brown continues his "Viewed from the Cockpit" series by describing an aircraft whose very name became synonymous with the Blitzkrieg techniques employed by the Luftwaffe in the early phases of World War II a€the Junkers Ju 87 dive bomber. THE LAST BELLIGERENT BIPLANE a€" THE AVIA B.534 - In little more than a decade, from 1932 to 1944, this little Czechoslovakian biplane fighter was conceived, tested, produced, flown operationally and effectively on several fronts, and retired from combat. Its entire life history is related in this feature in our ""Warbirds"" series. AIRSCENE - The monthly round-up of news and background to the news presented under section headings for Military Affairs, Civil Affairs, Aircraft and Industry and new Civil and Military Aircraft Contracts. FIGHTER A TO Z - Continuing the AIR international encyclopaedia of the world's fighter aircraft, from the Brandenburg W 18 to Brandenburg W 29. MODEL ENTHUSIAST - Modelling comments, the latest kits reviewed and two pages of colour profile drawings of the Dassault Super Mystere B2. VETERAN & VINTAGE - To mark the 25th Anniversary of the first flight of the English Electric Canberra, an account is given of the working life of just one example, a trials aircraft used for 18 years by Ferranti Ltd. PLANE FACTS - Answers to readers' enquiries from the AIR international files: De Schelde S-20, NV-25 (UTI-5) and NV-6 (UTI-6), and Hispano HA-300. IN PRINT - New aviation literature noted. AIR DATA FILE - Technical data, photographs and general arrangement drawings for the Dassault-Breguet Falcon 50, Poligrat/Pilatus PD-01 Master Porter and Piper PA-31T Cheyenne.
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