Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Air News - The latest in military and commercial developments including the new UK defence orders. 'New in View' covers the Sukhoi Su-34.
Farnborough International '96 - Aircraft at the Show.
Britain's Aircraft Industry - Maurice Allward reviews the UK's aviation manufacturing base and its performance since the last SBAC Show.
British Service Aircraft Designations - The names and official nomenclature of current UK military aircraft.
Design Analysis: 'May' ? The Russian Sub-hunter - Neville Beckett reports on the Ilyushin II-38 following one of the first ever visits by a Westerner to the interior of this long-serving ASW aircraft.
Ilyushin 11-38: Reflecting on Avro's Deltas 470 Some recently re-discovered pictures of the Avro 707s supplied by Harry Holmes.
Aviation News:
Commercial Fleet Changes - by John Roach.
Fairford's Silver Show
US Military News - by Bob Archer.
The Civil Scene - by Keith Crowden.
Radio Watch - by David Smith.
NATO and European Notes - by Peter Foster.
Beverley Remembered - Memories of one of the RAF's great heavy-lifters recalled by Harry Dddell.
Preservation
...in at the end! - Neil Purvis relates the story of a navigator who joined the RAF in 1940 and only saw combat five years later.
'Something lost behind the Ranges...' - Malcolm Finlaw visits the Spadeadam range and finds what survives on the RAF's largest base.
British Aircraft at War, 1939-45 - Part 33 of Gordon Swanborough's review of British Second World War types continues its coverage of Vickers Wellingtons.
Air Letters - Correspondence from readers on a range of topics.
Register Review - Roger Jackson's column on recent changes to the UK and Irish registers.
Air Videos - Recent releases and a CD-Rom reviewed by Ray Sanger.
Air Books - New publications noted.
Airport Movements - Recent visitors to UK airports assembled by Roger Jackson.
FRONT COVER: Not quite the twilight of the British Aircraft industry, just a Fleet Air Arm pilot preparing to fly one of the Royal Navy's Harrier trainers.
Farnborough International '96 - Aircraft at the Show.
Britain's Aircraft Industry - Maurice Allward reviews the UK's aviation manufacturing base and its performance since the last SBAC Show.
British Service Aircraft Designations - The names and official nomenclature of current UK military aircraft.
Design Analysis: 'May' ? The Russian Sub-hunter - Neville Beckett reports on the Ilyushin II-38 following one of the first ever visits by a Westerner to the interior of this long-serving ASW aircraft.
Ilyushin 11-38: Reflecting on Avro's Deltas 470 Some recently re-discovered pictures of the Avro 707s supplied by Harry Holmes.
Aviation News:
Commercial Fleet Changes - by John Roach.
Fairford's Silver Show
US Military News - by Bob Archer.
The Civil Scene - by Keith Crowden.
Radio Watch - by David Smith.
NATO and European Notes - by Peter Foster.
Beverley Remembered - Memories of one of the RAF's great heavy-lifters recalled by Harry Dddell.
Preservation
...in at the end! - Neil Purvis relates the story of a navigator who joined the RAF in 1940 and only saw combat five years later.
'Something lost behind the Ranges...' - Malcolm Finlaw visits the Spadeadam range and finds what survives on the RAF's largest base.
British Aircraft at War, 1939-45 - Part 33 of Gordon Swanborough's review of British Second World War types continues its coverage of Vickers Wellingtons.
Air Letters - Correspondence from readers on a range of topics.
Register Review - Roger Jackson's column on recent changes to the UK and Irish registers.
Air Videos - Recent releases and a CD-Rom reviewed by Ray Sanger.
Air Books - New publications noted.
Airport Movements - Recent visitors to UK airports assembled by Roger Jackson.
FRONT COVER: Not quite the twilight of the British Aircraft industry, just a Fleet Air Arm pilot preparing to fly one of the Royal Navy's Harrier trainers.
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