Aeroplane October issue – OUT NOW – Quest for Speed Special

Featuring:

THE QUEST FOR SPEED SPECIAL

1911 CIRCUIT OF BRITAIN
One of the UK’s first great air races

MILES M52 VERSUS BELL X-1
New research casts doubt on the notion that Britain could have beaten America to Mach 1.
PLUS! Special book offer

SAAB J 29
Sweden’s little-known world speed records

DARRYL GREENAMYER’S BEARCAT
The fastest propeller-driven aircraft of its day

LOCKHEED SR-71 RECORDS
The first and last USAF ‘Blackbird’ records

Also in this issue:

OPERATION ‘BODENPLATTE’
The Luftwaffe’s ‘last throw of the dice’ did much damage to RAF Typhoons and Spitfires on the ground at Eindhoven

DUNKIRK BEHIND THE SCENES
Insights into filming Christopher Nolan’s acclaimed movie

JETSTREAM AT 50
The early years of the last Handley Page aircraft

NACA P-63
The flight test years of a rare warbird

AEROPLANE MEETS … DAVID OGILVY
The ex-RAF Mosquito pilot who became a leading figure in the early days of the UK ‘flying museum’ scene

MARIANAS TURKEY SHOOT
A key episode in the Pacific War

DATABASE: BLACKBURN SHARK
Matthew Willis recounts the history of a forgotten torpedo bomber

AEROPLANE ARCHIVE: DESOUTTER
A war of words that reached the press

and much more!

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