October 2016 – Aviation Classics

Issue 28 – Aero L-39 Albatros

Designed by the Aero Vodochody team under chief designer Jan VlÄek, the prototype Aero L-39, actually the second aircraft built, […]

The success of the Bell Huey family is an astounding achievement in rotary winged design; some of the first helicopters […]

Few aircraft have the ability to radiate menace like the Focke-Wulf Fw 190. Its angular canopy, sharp fuselage, bulging radial-engined […]

With a unique design that caused the first RAF engineer who saw one to question if it had been delivered […]

As all of you know who read this page it’s the hardest thing in the magazine for me, this one […]

Funny old thing, but here I am stuck on this page again, it’s 04.00 (What’s the O stand for? O […]

One thing I have learned is that each subject of Aviation Classics presents its own unique difficulties. What is there […]

As anyone who reads this page knows, it’s the one I have trouble with. Yep, this is the 24th draft, […]

In 1978, one of the finest minds of the 20th century, philosopher, historian and scientist James Burke, wrote and presented […]

Welcome to the second edition of Aviation Classics supported by the aviation industry. Joining Saab, we would like to thank […]