Aeroplane Monthly November issue – Armistice 100 Special

Armistice 100 Special

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November issue OUT NOW

ARMISTICE 100 SPECIAL
Commemorating the end of World War One in the air LAST DAYS ON THE WESTERN FRONT
The RAF’s part in the air war during the final week of hostilities
US NAVY IN ITALY
US Navy pilots joined Italy’s fight against Austro-Hungarian forces late in World War One
V/1500 BERLIN MISSION
The failure of RAF Handley Page V/1500s to bomb Berlin was put down to the aircraft, but other accounts tell a different story
FEATURES
TRANS-ATLANTIC COMET
When BOAC and the Comet 4 stole a genuine march on the Americans
BATTLE OF BRITAIN BUCHÓNS
Former RAF pilot Ron Lloyd recalls his experience of getting to grips with the Hispano Buchón — and Dave Ratcliffe provides a modern-day perspective
AEROPLANE MEETS … ‘CONNIE’ EDWARDS
The legendary Texan aviator and warbird collector is famed for his role in Battle of Britain, but that’s just a fraction of his remarkable career
CFS TIGER AND TUTOR TEAMS
Memorable aerobatic displays from the inter-war years
AEW SEA KINGS
As the Royal Navy retires its last Westland Sea Kings, we look back at how they started in the airborne early warning role
DATABASE: AVIATION TRADERS CARVAIR
Richard Vandervord describes how a brainwave by Freddie Laker led to a new aircraft for the car ferry market, and its subsequent career
AEROPLANE ARCHIVE: CENTRAL GUNNERY SCHOOL
The RAF’s wartime ‘air gunnery university
and much more!
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