Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
NEWS:
Military - KC-X contest winner announced; RAF looks to future ISTAR capabilities; USAF pushes for more aircraft ; '2018 bomber' concepts; and all the international military aviation headlines
Virgin heads for space - Virgin Galactic launches the designs of its White Knight II carrier aircraft and SpaceShipTwo spacecraft
Civil - Biofuel trials under way; Bombardier offers CSeries to customers; Lufthansa Cargo/DHL joint venture launched; London City gets trans-Atlantic service; Orders, airports, routes and aircraft
Preservation - Hawker Hinds recovered from Afghanistan; Spitfire T8 returns to UK; More CAF sales; XH558 in trouble; and other major aircraft preservation stories from around the world
PLUS: A special report on the possible end of passenger-carrying DC-3 flights in Europe, as Air Atlantique gears up for the season
FEATURES:
Civil Service - DR KEVIN WRIGHT - Potentially turbulent times lie ahead for the US Civil Reserve Air Fleet
'Blackjack' strikes back - HOLGER M?LLER & STEFAN B?TTNER - The mighty Tupolev Tu-160 'Blackjack' has experienced various ups and downs in Russian AF service. However, it's now the most potent weapon in Long-Range Aviation's bomber arsenal
Jersey resurgent - BEN DUNNELL - The Editor reports from the largest of the Channel Islands on how business is again booming at Jersey Airport
Alpine Dogfight - JOHANN JANSCHITZ/AUSTRIAN AF - Austrian AF jet training on the long-serving Saab 105OE
Air Canada - ANDREAS SPAETH - Few of the major North American carriers could be described as innovative, but Air Canada is an exception - it had to innovate to survive
Ravens over Iraq - WARREN E. THOMPSON - USAF EF-111 pilots recount how the 'Spark Vark' helped gain Coalition air superiority in the first Gulf War
The Great Tanker Shock - ROBERT F. DORR - Analysis of the USAF's surprise decision (and that's putting it mildly) to award Northrop Grumman and EADS the contract for its new air refuelling tanker
Six Appeal - GRAHAM ROBSON - The rebirth of Air Atlantique's magnificent DC-6A G-APSA as an airshow performer and film star
A GUIDE - Turn to page 69 for your 'all you need to know' guide to all things aviation!
Computer - AlphaSim Hunter and Sabre; Captain Sim C-130 X-perience; Just Flight P-38; New scenery; Web site recommendations
Books - Featured book; The Brabazon Committee and British Airliners 1945-1960; and reviews of other new aviation titles
Gear - Stamps - DVDs - Models
Airshow News - What future for RAF displays?; Raptor coming to UK; 2008 cancellations
Airshow Calendar - Fully updated show dates for 2008 - in the UK, North America, Europe and the rest of the world
Military - KC-X contest winner announced; RAF looks to future ISTAR capabilities; USAF pushes for more aircraft ; '2018 bomber' concepts; and all the international military aviation headlines
Virgin heads for space - Virgin Galactic launches the designs of its White Knight II carrier aircraft and SpaceShipTwo spacecraft
Civil - Biofuel trials under way; Bombardier offers CSeries to customers; Lufthansa Cargo/DHL joint venture launched; London City gets trans-Atlantic service; Orders, airports, routes and aircraft
Preservation - Hawker Hinds recovered from Afghanistan; Spitfire T8 returns to UK; More CAF sales; XH558 in trouble; and other major aircraft preservation stories from around the world
PLUS: A special report on the possible end of passenger-carrying DC-3 flights in Europe, as Air Atlantique gears up for the season
FEATURES:
Civil Service - DR KEVIN WRIGHT - Potentially turbulent times lie ahead for the US Civil Reserve Air Fleet
'Blackjack' strikes back - HOLGER M?LLER & STEFAN B?TTNER - The mighty Tupolev Tu-160 'Blackjack' has experienced various ups and downs in Russian AF service. However, it's now the most potent weapon in Long-Range Aviation's bomber arsenal
Jersey resurgent - BEN DUNNELL - The Editor reports from the largest of the Channel Islands on how business is again booming at Jersey Airport
Alpine Dogfight - JOHANN JANSCHITZ/AUSTRIAN AF - Austrian AF jet training on the long-serving Saab 105OE
Air Canada - ANDREAS SPAETH - Few of the major North American carriers could be described as innovative, but Air Canada is an exception - it had to innovate to survive
Ravens over Iraq - WARREN E. THOMPSON - USAF EF-111 pilots recount how the 'Spark Vark' helped gain Coalition air superiority in the first Gulf War
The Great Tanker Shock - ROBERT F. DORR - Analysis of the USAF's surprise decision (and that's putting it mildly) to award Northrop Grumman and EADS the contract for its new air refuelling tanker
Six Appeal - GRAHAM ROBSON - The rebirth of Air Atlantique's magnificent DC-6A G-APSA as an airshow performer and film star
A GUIDE - Turn to page 69 for your 'all you need to know' guide to all things aviation!
Computer - AlphaSim Hunter and Sabre; Captain Sim C-130 X-perience; Just Flight P-38; New scenery; Web site recommendations
Books - Featured book; The Brabazon Committee and British Airliners 1945-1960; and reviews of other new aviation titles
Gear - Stamps - DVDs - Models
Airshow News - What future for RAF displays?; Raptor coming to UK; 2008 cancellations
Airshow Calendar - Fully updated show dates for 2008 - in the UK, North America, Europe and the rest of the world
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