Aviation News March Issue – OUT NOW

Featuring:

China Flies Stealth Strike Fighter
Coinciding with a visit by the US Defence Secretary, China sprang a surprise and took the J-20 stealth fighter into the air for the first time. What was that all about? And why did it happen when it did? The Editor gets opinionated.

Expediting the Mail
Long before the halcyon days of non-stop transatlantic flights, mail got delivered by seaplanes catapulted from ocean liners in a commercial race to be first, a contest fought between the French and the Germans, at least according to Hugh Cowin.

Return of the Harpoon
Rescued from obscurity and brought back to flying condition, a long lost Lockheed Harpoon fi re-bomber is once again plying the California skies, as Jim Dunn found out.

Airbus A310
Long out of production, and not the best seller from Airbus, we look at the numerical successor to the A300 and review its origin and some of the ways it influenced not only future Airbus designs but also those from Boeing!

The Incomparable Harrier
More than 40 years after it first equipped the RAF, we celebrate a remarkable technical achievement, one of the last great British aerospace legends, the Harrier, and recall how it came about and how it evolved.

Operational Harrier Units
Peter Foster logs the operational units equipped with the Harrier from the first to the last and gives a snapshot of operations at home and abroad.

Nordic Legend
Dakotas are two-a-penny but a group of enthusiasts in Scandinavia have one they treat with very special care. Geoff Jones visited them and went along for the ride.

Militärluftfahrt Austellung
Zeltweg in central Austria is the home of a museum with exhibits ranging across the spectrum of types flown by this country’s air force since 1955. Alberto Pericoli gives us a glimpse of its treasures.

Grumbler – by another name!
In attempting to produce a tactical bomber, Sud-Est Aviation produced one of the most bizarre aircraft designs ever to come out of France. Barry Wheeler just had to take a closer look.

and much more!

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