Features
Hollywood’s ‘Wings’
Paul Mantz and Frank Tallman became legends in movie flying. Scott A Thompson starts a tribute to them and their Movieland of the Air museum.
Harvard Heaven
Nigel Price visits the Canadian Harvard Aircraft Association’s superb formation training weekend in Ontario.
Bond of Brothers
US Navy Captain Thomas J Hudner talks to James P Busha about the day he earned a Medal of Honor.
Sketching History
Derek Clark could never have envisaged how important his schoolboy sketches of B-17s would turn out to be. Ian D White tells his remarkable story.
California Burnin’
Veteran propeller-driven types were mustered to fight California’s wildfires. Roger Syratt reports.
Spitfire Detectives
Peter R Arnold, Shlomo Aloni and Zdenek Hurt conclude how they revealed the provenance of a restoration project.
Regulars
News News News – 13-plus pages!
Desert Hurricane debut; rebuilt Spitfires fly at Wycombe and Duxford; Sea Harrier ‘warbird’ flies in the US; Nanton museum expands; CIA Blackbird unveiled; P-38 Lightning found off the Welsh coast; last SAAF 707 joins museum; top award for Duxford; ‘Para’ museum on the move; Cody project unveiled; Heinkel re-creation in Germany; F-111 ‘roll-out’; Manchester museum to expand and much, much, more!
Over the Trenches – ‘Schoolboy’ Pilot
Tom Spencer recounts the brief wartime service of 2nd Lt Reggie Pohlmann, Royal Flying Corps.
What’s New – product reviews
From the Workshop – ‘Memphis Belle’
Jarrod Cotter describes the meticulous restoration of the famous B-17.
In Focus – Grumman Mohawk
The Cavanaugh Flight Museum’s immaculate OV-1D and worldwide Mohawk survivors.
Airshow
Reports from Midland, Texas, and Old Rhinebeck, New York.
‘Ops’ Board – where to go, what to do
We Salute You – in memoriam
FlyPost – readers’ letters
The Way We Were – 5 Squadron
Our series on the heritage of present-day squadrons turns to 5 Squadron, operators of the latest addition to the RAF inventory.
Cover Stories
Lone Star Hurricane
We present first pictures of the Lone Star Flight Museum’s Hurricane in its new desert colour scheme and the markings of Texan ‘ace’ Lance Wade.
‘Memphis Belle’
Jarrod Cotter reports from Dayton on the incredible restoration of a World War Two icon.
Way We Were
Proud to ‘fly’ the Canadian Maple Leaf symbol, the RAF’s 5 Squadron has an incredible heritage and now flies the state-of the-art Sentinel.
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November 29, 2007 at 4:59 pm