Aviation News April Issue – OUT NOW

Featuring:

San Diego Celebrates
The US Navy begins a year of celebrating 100 years of naval aviation with a stunning display at NAS North Island, California, while specially painted aircraft link the past with the present.

Airbus A320
As Airbus emerges from the economic recession and consolidates its position as the world leader in commercial orders, we look back at the revolutionary A320 and its pioneering design characteristics.

Ryan’s Kamikaze killers
A composite propulsion system put Ryan’s Fireball in the frontline when Japenese Kamikaze attacks threatened US carriers in 1944. But was it too far ahead of its time? Hugh Cowin recounts its place in history.

Persistence in the stratosphere
A US technology company, founded by the man who built the man-powered aircraft that crossed the English Channel in 1979, has flown a hydrogen powered surveillance aircraft designed to stay aloft for a week – is it all pie-in-the-sky?

Schwerin Gories and the Fokker DVIII
Dubbed the ‘flying razor’ when it appeared in 1918, a replica Fokker DVIII has been built by a German engineer who has his sights on reconstructing the Schwerin test centre.

Dominie Departure
Peter Foster looks back over the 45 year service life of the Dominie training aircraft as another venerable old workhorse is retired from the RAF.

Gloster’s rocket fighter
It was never going to be pretty but a jet-powered fighter proposed by Gloster would have put two engines side by side in a bulbous fuselage. Could it have worked? Tony Butler seeks an answer.

and much more!

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