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September 2010 edition cover: Juanita Franzi's artwork reflects our major feature comparing five 1940-era fighters.
Top Gun 1940: Fighters Compared
We analyse five fighters of the Battle of Britain era and pit them against each other.
Sweden's African Air Force
In this month's Hidden History Jan Forsgren tells the story of Sweden's major contribution to the Imperial Ethiopian Air Force from 1946-65.
Lewis Gilbert - Douglas Bader's film biographer
It's now 55 years since Reach for the Sky. The film's 90-year-old director talks to Nicholas Jones about his most enduring piece of work.
La Comète en France Part 2 - The Burden of Proof
The second part of Philippe Ricco's look at France's use of the sleek de Havilland D.H.88 Comet Racer as a high-speed mailplane in the 1930s.
Aircrew
This month James Kightly turns the crew spotlight on the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet pilot - with illustration by Ian Bott.
Trophies on Show
In 1945 the Royal Aircraft Establishment put on a large display of captured enemy aircraft - an event now recalled with a superb photographic exhibition at Farnborough's FAST Museum.
Database: Westland-Hill Pterodactyls
Derek Jones describes a series of tailless experimental types of the 1920s and 1930s.
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