FlyPast January Issue – OUT NOW!

FEATURING:

BOMBER COMMAND
A SPECIAL SECTION PAYING TRIBUTE TO THE MEN AND MACHINES THAT SERVED WITH RAF BOMBER COMMAND.

Including:

DAYLIGHT DEFEAT
Andy Thomas describes the disastrous events that led the RAF to switch from day to night operations.

B-17 ‘SPOOKS’
Bomber Command used the Flying Fortress to jam enemy communications. Tom Spencer charts these risky ‘ops’.

LUFTWAFFE ATTACK
Robert F Dorr describes a USAAF unit’s reaction to the aerial assault, codenamed Bodenplatte by the Luftwaffe.

HARVARD HEAVEN
A five-ship Harvard display team is flying in New Zealand. Gavin Conroy goes airto- air with The Roaring Forties.

AMERICAN CLASSIC
Frank B Mormillo reflects on the return to flight of Larry Howard’s immaculate Laird LC-1B-300.

IN THE SPOTLIGHT… LOCKHEED STARFIGHTER

ORIGIN AND HISTORY
We scrutinize the jet’s history.

INSIDE THE STARFIGHTER
Cutaway artwork.

MEN BEHIND THE F-104
The Starfighter’s entry into service was not without difficulty. Warren E Thompson describes incidents from the jet’s early days.

And much more!

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