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On the cover: Richard Paver photographed Delta Jets chief pilot Andy Cubin flying Hawker Hunter T.7 WV318/ G-FFOX at about 5,000ft a few miles north of its base at Kemble, Gloucestershire, on May 31, 2009.

HAWKER HUNTER SPECIAL SECTION

Flying the Cold War Front Line…
Mike McEvoy, former Hunter driver with 2nd TAF in West Germany, recalls being young and in love – with the Hunter.

The Hunter in detail…
Mike Badrocke's superbly detailed Hunter FGA.9 cutaway.

Sand, Sweat and Hunters…
Ex-Hunter FR.10 pilot Nigel Walpole explains how the RAF Airfield Construction Branch made Hunter ops possible in the Middle East in the 1960s.

Hunter centrespread pull-out poster…
An exclusive two-Hunter study from the lens of Richard Paver.

The Dream Hunters…
Tim Skeet profiles 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.

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