FlyPast October Issue – OUT NOW

Featuring:

Ultimate interceptor
Andy Marden charts the history of the USAF’s ‘super-fighter’, the F-106 Delta Dart.

Gulf ‘taxi’
Avro Ansons played an important, but often overlooked, part in Aden. Vic Campden remembers his time flying the venerable ‘Annie’ so far away from home.

Silent flight home
A bombing sortie in a Handley Page Halifax went badly wrong for Ronnie Waite and his crew. The pilot, now 97, looks back on a night he’d rather forget.

Happy birthday
As celebrations to mark Bristol Britannia XM496’s 50th birthday begin, Nigel Price makes the journey to its Cotswolds home and meets its keepers.

Storch airborne
Darren Harbour captures Peter Holloway’s UK-based Fieseler Storch on its first air-to-air photo shoot.

Warbird academy
Eric Dumigan learns what makes a Vought Corsair tick by attending the exciting new Vintage Wings of Canada warbird ground school.

Riding shotgun
Editor Ken Ellis looks at the UK’s latest Vietnam helicopter, Phil Connolly’s combat veteran Hughes OH-6.

Three-in-one
FlyPast ventures to Bruntingthorpe to meet the group putting life back into an awesome ‘Cold War’ warrior – the Buccaneer.

The way we were
Andy Thomas charts the history of 78 Squadron from the Great War to modern day Afghanistan.

What’s new
A selection of must-have books and other goodies are given the FlyPast air-test.

Museum
Simone Bovi visits the fascinating and newly opened Volandia park collection at Milan Airport.

Under pressure
Pete West’s artwork this month profiles the last of the Percival ‘line’ – the experimental Hunting 126.

and much more!

FlyPast October issue is available now for just £4.20 from WHSmith and other leading newsagents. Alternatively, order your copy with FREE P&P* from our online shop.

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