Now this one really is a problem. I have had difficulties with this page before, as anyone who reads it knows, but nothing quite like this. Not only is this aircraft an icon, an astounding
Read moreIssue 18 – Messerschmitt BF 109
Year: 2016
Issue 17 – Mirage
Noun 1• An optical illusion caused by atmospheric conditions. 2• Something that appears real or possible but is not. So says the dictionary regarding the word chosen by Dassault as the name for the first
Read moreIssue 16 – Saab
Welcome to the first of what I hope will be a succession of different Aviation Classics, one where we are not covering a single type of aircraft or an event, but instead studying the entire
Read moreIssue 15 – Hurricane
How do you tell the story of a legend, a national icon and one of the most amazing flying machines ever built in a single page? Well, it’s difficult. Like the Mosquito issue, this introduction
Read moreIssue 14 – P-38 Lightning
Well, this turned out to be a fascinating aircraft to research, since it tied together so many famous people in a single design. One of the greatest aircraft designers of all time, Clarence L “Kelly”
Read moreIssue 13 – F-14 Tomcat
Well, producing this magazine has been a real learning curve again, and this time one for which I am deeply grateful, as it has cleared up many questions I had often pondered regarding the programmes
Read moreIssue 12 – F4U Corsair
Well, the magazine is officially two years old with this issue, No. 12, the Chance Vought, or Vought, or Goodyear or Brewster, F4U or FG-1 or F-3A, Corsair. Almost as many manufacturers and designations as
Read moreIssue 11 – Harrier
I find this page hard to write, espcially when I am angry. One day my best friend counselled me thus: “If you feel anger, write about it, it will give you perspective and calm the
Read moreIssue 10 – de Havilland Mosquito
Legend understood – Just so you know, and I make no excuses for this, I have found that this is the hardest page to write in the whole magazine. Summing up an entire edition in
Read moreIssue 9 – North American F-86 Sabre
Friends – As I began my second issue as editor, I found myself dealing with an aircraft I thought I knew well, the F-86 Sabre. As time went on however, more and more came to
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