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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Headline News - C-27J selected as JCA ? Boosts for C-17 production ? Osprey operational ? Advanced Hawkeye unveiled ? New Presidential helo airborne
World News - F-35 design milestones reached ? New generation Gripens ? ARH-70A delayed ? Malaysia receives'Flankers'* USAF C-130 AMP slashed ? RAF tanker plan moves forward PLUS! Special reports on Russia's PAK FA fighter program (page 11), the reorganization of Serbian military aviation (page 15) and the ELITE electronic warfare exercise (page 20)
From the Hot Seat - In our new feature from the inside of military aviation, 2nd Lt Brandon Buckspan tells us about his first solo as a USAF pilot
Front Line - Robert F. Dorr looks behind the military aviation headlines in our hard-hitting regular column
Global Hawk Country - The RQ-4 Global Hawk is already one of the USAF's most important surveillance assets, with further capabilities due to be added. David Axe checks in from Beale AFB to bring us this report on its operations
Send in the Ospreys! - As the first US Marine Corps squadron of MV-22B Ospreys is declared operational, Rick Llinares/Dash 2 Aviation Photography reports on the unit in question, VMM-263 'Thunder Chickens'
Thunder Storm - Usman Ansari details the JF-17 Thunder' fighter developed jointly by China and Pakistan, as it enters service with the Pakistan AF
Me262 goes to war - In an extract from the new edition of Classic Publications' superb book on the type, J. Richard Smith and Eddie J. Creek recount the fascinating story of the entry into service of the world's first operational jet, the Messerschmitt Me262 ? PLUS! Artworks and drawings
Class Act- A briefing by Tom Kaminski on the syllabi and aircraft of the US Air Force Test Pilot School
Last Blast - Richard Cooper covers the final flights of the Royal Air Force's Jaguars ? including one very special color scheme! PLUS! Exclusive air-to-air photos
Death of a MiG Killer - LCDR Bob'Foxy' Hughes was a Vietnam War MiG killer. LT Tom 'Rip' Rippinger was a veteran F-4 Radar Intercept Officer. Sadly, on January 31.1979.both lost their lives in a tragic accident. This is the story of what happened, as told to Tony Holmes by some of their fellow aviators
'Foxhound' Force - With some excellent photos of the type in its natural Russian habitat, Stefan Biittner and Holger Miiller take you through the Russian AF service of the MiG-31 PLUS! Color cutaway of MiG-31 B
Photo Gallery: Air Superiority - More of photographer John Dibbs' favorite images, this time taken from his 'Air Superiority'calendar
Books and Flight Sims We give our verdicts on a selection of new military aviation books and flight sim add-ons
Front cover: 'Foxhound'force - a Russian MiG-31 from 790IAP demonstrates the awesome power of its afterburners as it thunders into the air at the beginning of a training sortie. See pages 66-73 for a fascinating and rare insight Jnto the life and times of the foxhound'.:
World News - F-35 design milestones reached ? New generation Gripens ? ARH-70A delayed ? Malaysia receives'Flankers'* USAF C-130 AMP slashed ? RAF tanker plan moves forward PLUS! Special reports on Russia's PAK FA fighter program (page 11), the reorganization of Serbian military aviation (page 15) and the ELITE electronic warfare exercise (page 20)
From the Hot Seat - In our new feature from the inside of military aviation, 2nd Lt Brandon Buckspan tells us about his first solo as a USAF pilot
Front Line - Robert F. Dorr looks behind the military aviation headlines in our hard-hitting regular column
Global Hawk Country - The RQ-4 Global Hawk is already one of the USAF's most important surveillance assets, with further capabilities due to be added. David Axe checks in from Beale AFB to bring us this report on its operations
Send in the Ospreys! - As the first US Marine Corps squadron of MV-22B Ospreys is declared operational, Rick Llinares/Dash 2 Aviation Photography reports on the unit in question, VMM-263 'Thunder Chickens'
Thunder Storm - Usman Ansari details the JF-17 Thunder' fighter developed jointly by China and Pakistan, as it enters service with the Pakistan AF
Me262 goes to war - In an extract from the new edition of Classic Publications' superb book on the type, J. Richard Smith and Eddie J. Creek recount the fascinating story of the entry into service of the world's first operational jet, the Messerschmitt Me262 ? PLUS! Artworks and drawings
Class Act- A briefing by Tom Kaminski on the syllabi and aircraft of the US Air Force Test Pilot School
Last Blast - Richard Cooper covers the final flights of the Royal Air Force's Jaguars ? including one very special color scheme! PLUS! Exclusive air-to-air photos
Death of a MiG Killer - LCDR Bob'Foxy' Hughes was a Vietnam War MiG killer. LT Tom 'Rip' Rippinger was a veteran F-4 Radar Intercept Officer. Sadly, on January 31.1979.both lost their lives in a tragic accident. This is the story of what happened, as told to Tony Holmes by some of their fellow aviators
'Foxhound' Force - With some excellent photos of the type in its natural Russian habitat, Stefan Biittner and Holger Miiller take you through the Russian AF service of the MiG-31 PLUS! Color cutaway of MiG-31 B
Photo Gallery: Air Superiority - More of photographer John Dibbs' favorite images, this time taken from his 'Air Superiority'calendar
Books and Flight Sims We give our verdicts on a selection of new military aviation books and flight sim add-ons
Front cover: 'Foxhound'force - a Russian MiG-31 from 790IAP demonstrates the awesome power of its afterburners as it thunders into the air at the beginning of a training sortie. See pages 66-73 for a fascinating and rare insight Jnto the life and times of the foxhound'.:
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