Copies of 'Built to Endure – The story of the Airfield Construction Branch in the Cold War', a wing walk and Shoreham airshow tickets to be won. PLUS a great reader holiday to Canada! Get involved via Aeroplane.
Avro Vulcan XH558's first three airshow appearances of 2009 proved that the “Vulcan effect” on attendances is as strong as ever. At the RAF Cosford Air Show on June 14 , where the police had to close motorway slip-roads after the on-site car parks reached their 18,000-space capacity. Full story includes video of the Vulcan at Volkel (Holland) displaying with an F16 and a Hawker Hunter, and at Brize Norton accompanied by a pair of VC10 tankers!
The long-awaited airshow debut of a Flug Werk FW 190 was restricted to a series of engine run-ups in front of an appreciative 28,000-strong crowd at La Ferté-Alais near Paris on May 30–31
Twenty-seven years after construction began in a borrowed workshop in a southern suburb of Paris, a reproduction Potez 25 was unveiled at the Musée de l'Air at Le Bourget on June 16.
Flying the Cold War Front Line – former Hunter driver recalls being young and in love – with the Hunter.
The Hunter in detail – superbly detailed Hunter FGA.9 cutaway.
Sand, Sweat and Hunters – how the RAF Airfield Construction Branch made Middle East Hunter ops possible in the 1960s.
Hunter centrespread pull-out poster – exclusive two-Hunter study from the lens of Richard Paver.
The Dream Hunters – Delta Jets, the Kemble-based Hunter and vintage jet specialists.
Also in this issue:
The WW2 friendly-fire shootdown of two dozen USAAF C-47s
Blériot Channel flight centenary
1960s film flying for Darling Lili
Aircrew: Airspeed Horsa attack glider pilot
Database: Gloster Grebe – the RAF's first post-First World War operational biplane fighter. Includes scale drawings and squadron markings in colour.
On the cover: Hawker Hunter T.7 WV318/ G-FFOX near Kemble, Gloucestershire, on May 31, 2009. Photo: Richard Paver.
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14-days to Eastern Canada taking in two international airshows and at least 12 aviation museums/ collections.
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