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Dark Blue Jets

Professor Keith Hayward FRAeS on the political and industrial manœuvring behind the Fleet Air Arm's "big three" Cold War jet fighters – Scimitar, Sea Vixen and Buccaneer

Henschel's Evil Twin in North Africa

Dr Andrew Arthy chronicles the mixed fortunes of the potent Henschel Hs 129 tankbuster in Libya and Tunisia during 1942-43

The Racing Bus!

James D. Kightly explains the significance of KLM Douglas DC-2 Uiver's astonishing success in the 1934 UK-Australia MacRobertson Trophy Air Race

"An Interesting New Unit ..."

In late 1940 Bill "Johnnie" Johnson became one of the first group of Army soldiers to be selected for glider training

Airmail Special!

The advance of rocket technology during the Second World War led to some unusual civil applications, including France's work on airmail rocket, as Jean-Christophe Carbonel explains

Spitfire Summer ..?

How well do the familiar Battle of Britain clichés stand up to scrutiny? Andy Saunders investigates

Gulfstreaming II

Moving on from flying the Gulfstream I turboprop for car company Ford, Brian J. Turpin recalls a hair-raising incident while flying its successor, the jet-powered state-of-the-art Gulfstream II

Bush Baby: The Fleet Model 50 Freighter

Keith Simpson describes how Canada's cartoonish-looking Fleet Freighter actually fulfilled a very specific role as a rugged, adaptable bush transport

The Canberra Bomb Scandal

When the English Electric Canberra entered RAF service in 1951, it could fly higher and further than any other bomber in the world; as Dave Forster reveals, however, there was a problem with the bombs ...

Wings Over Peru: The Caproni Ca.100

Amaru Tincopa tells the story of the Ca.100 biplane trainer, the only aircraft to be designed and built by the Italo-Peruvian manufacturer FNA Caproni Peruana

Belgium's African Superbase

Leif Hellström details the history of the Belgian Air Force’s massive Kamina "superbase" in the Congo during 1949-60

The Argosy in America

Clive Richards relates how Britain’s Armstrong Whitworth AW.650 Argosy found immediate favour with American cargo specialist Riddle Airlines

Puss Moth: Dividing the Dominions

Dr Peter Hobbins explores how structural failures of de Havilland D.H.80 Puss Moths in the 1930s became an airworthiness issue across the British Empire

Nailing it!

Bill Cahill describes the vital role played by Pave Nail North American OV-10As, specially modified for night and laser-designation work, in the Vietnam War

King of the Shutterbugs

Peter J. Marson revisits the work of renowned American aviation photographer Harold G. Martin

Shorts Shambles Mk 2?

Short Bros' unlovely Seamew is universally regarded as an aeronautical "duck egg" – yet, as Chris Gibson discovers, there were plans for a Mk 2. Was it redeemable?

Towards the Stratosphere

Edward M. Young charts the US Army Air Corps' ambitious inter-war research programme into aircraft cabin-pressurisation

Norse Power

Rob Mulder looks at the pioneering 1930s work of Viggo Widerøe, which laid the groundwork for Norway's oldest airline, still extant today

Sea Eagle

Continuing their series on British aerial weapons, Chris Gibson and technical artist Ian Bott join forces to examine the genesis, development and service history of BAe Dynamics' Sea Eagle anti-shipping weapon

Malta: the Day they Got the Oxygen Plant

Robert Walker's first-hand recollections of December 30, 1941, when Luftwaffe bombers pounded the vital radio towers and oxygen plant on Malta

Winds of Change: Zambia Airways

Maurice Wickstead traces the family tree that led to the formation of Zambia Airways in the mid-1960s

Field of Gold

While sorting through the TAH photographic archive, Editor Nick Stroud uncovered a collection of intriguing images taken at an event at Farnborough in July 1955. What was it?

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