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In the current issue:
Taking the War to the Enemy
Michael Napier relates how RAF Bomber Command underwent a remarkable expansion in 1941, enabling Britain’s bomber force to return to its primary objective
Lightning Bugs & Buffalo Hunters
Strategic Air Command's use of unmanned Ryan recce and "SAM-sniffer" drones during the Vietnam conflict was both effective and economical, explains Bill Cahill
Ceres: The Goddess from Fishermans Bend
Australian aviation historian Derek Buckmaster chronicles the genesis and development of the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation's rugged Ceres agricultural aircraft
VASP Flight 169
In the early hours of February 8, 1982, the flightcrew of a Boeing 727 of Brazilian airline VASP reported a curious light apparently tracking the jetliner. Sergio Gonçalves investigates
Shorts Tucano vs Pilatus PC-9
By the early 1980s the RAF's Jet Provost trainer was past its "sell-by" date and the hunt for a replacement was on. James Jackson traces the resulting procurement process
American Domination?
Alan Griffith follows Clive Richards' article in TAH38, on the unrealised wartime plan to build Bristol Centaurus-engined B-29s in the UK, with the concurrent plan to do the same with the Consolidated B-32 Dominator
Air Sud Kasai
Leif Hellström charts the brief, somewhat chaotic life of a shoestring African airline that never officially existed
Wings over Peru: the Fairey Seal
Continuing his occasional series on the development of aviation in Peru, Amaru Tincopa turns his attention to the six Fairey Seals acquired by the Peruvian air arm in 1933
A Life in Politics?
Professor Keith Hayward FRAeS opens a three-part series on the political aspects of one of the UK's most important industrial endeavours of the immediate post-war period — the supremely elegant but troubled de Havilland Comet
Sweden's Secret Airbases
Often hidden among pine trees with sections of road for runways, Sweden's "war airbase" system was finessed throughout the Cold War, as Lennart Andersson reveals
Baltic Triangles
Following their independence in the wake of the First World War, Estonia, Lavia and Lithuania set about establishing commercial air services. Günter Endres details the inter-war civil aviation activities of the Baltic nations
Supermarine by Submarine
Ralph Pegram takes a look at Supermarine's "slip-wing " concept, initially devised by Noel Pemberton Billing in 1913
Tilting at Windmills
Matthew Willis profiles Hiram Cannon Otwell, the forgotten pioneer of the tiltrotor system still in use today
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