Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Features:
E-Systems' L450 - 'Pathfinder for a New Breed of Aircraft' subtitles an article by Roy Braybrook on the joint US-German L450 high-altitude surveillance aircraft tested in the 1970s.
UK & Irish Airlines since 1945 - Pt 2 - Maurice Wickstead embarks on the second part of this major series by reviewing Aer Turas to Air Charter.
Zero Tolerance - Mark Huggins recalls how the Allied intelligence services were caught completely unawares by the advanced nature of Japanese aircraft in the opening months of the Second World War.
Dubai Postscript - Military aircraft at the recent Middle East show.
Operation Eastbound - In 1960, three Australian Canberra bombers visited the' Nigerian independence celebrations and subsequently circumnavigated the world. Jim Grant relates the story.
Typhoon Anniversary - A photo-spread on this famous tank-buster which made its maiden flight 60 years ago.
Airline Profile: Air Zambezi - Guy Warner visits this new African operator.
Airships Rise Again - 2 - German and US airship companies are reviewed in this second part and the feature is completed by a table detailing the world's airships and their operators.
jetBlue & buzz - Two low-cost start-up carriers began services in January, one in the USA and one in the UK. Eryl Crump and the Editor sample their operations.
Regulars:
Air News - 'New in View' - Raytheon Premier I.
First Rights Table - 1999 by Michael Stroud.
Commercial Scene by Keith Crowden.
Nato & European Notes by Peter Foster.
US Military News by Bob Archer.
Aviation Archaeology by David Smith.
Radio Watch - by David Smith.
Air Letters
Aircraft in Outline: Embraer EMB-312 Tucano 1:72nd scale drawings by Hubert Cance.
Production Line
Preservation
Obituaries
Register Review - by Roger Jackson.
Airport Movements - by Roger Jackson.
Air Books
Air Videos - by Ray Sanger.
FRONT COVER: Embraer EMB-312 Tucano trainers of the Brazilian Air Force's Escuadrilha da Fumaca or 'Smoke Squadron' at Pirassununga.
E-Systems' L450 - 'Pathfinder for a New Breed of Aircraft' subtitles an article by Roy Braybrook on the joint US-German L450 high-altitude surveillance aircraft tested in the 1970s.
UK & Irish Airlines since 1945 - Pt 2 - Maurice Wickstead embarks on the second part of this major series by reviewing Aer Turas to Air Charter.
Zero Tolerance - Mark Huggins recalls how the Allied intelligence services were caught completely unawares by the advanced nature of Japanese aircraft in the opening months of the Second World War.
Dubai Postscript - Military aircraft at the recent Middle East show.
Operation Eastbound - In 1960, three Australian Canberra bombers visited the' Nigerian independence celebrations and subsequently circumnavigated the world. Jim Grant relates the story.
Typhoon Anniversary - A photo-spread on this famous tank-buster which made its maiden flight 60 years ago.
Airline Profile: Air Zambezi - Guy Warner visits this new African operator.
Airships Rise Again - 2 - German and US airship companies are reviewed in this second part and the feature is completed by a table detailing the world's airships and their operators.
jetBlue & buzz - Two low-cost start-up carriers began services in January, one in the USA and one in the UK. Eryl Crump and the Editor sample their operations.
Regulars:
Air News - 'New in View' - Raytheon Premier I.
First Rights Table - 1999 by Michael Stroud.
Commercial Scene by Keith Crowden.
Nato & European Notes by Peter Foster.
US Military News by Bob Archer.
Aviation Archaeology by David Smith.
Radio Watch - by David Smith.
Air Letters
Aircraft in Outline: Embraer EMB-312 Tucano 1:72nd scale drawings by Hubert Cance.
Production Line
Preservation
Obituaries
Register Review - by Roger Jackson.
Airport Movements - by Roger Jackson.
Air Books
Air Videos - by Ray Sanger.
FRONT COVER: Embraer EMB-312 Tucano trainers of the Brazilian Air Force's Escuadrilha da Fumaca or 'Smoke Squadron' at Pirassununga.
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