Beaufighter Special – OUT NOW

Produced by the team behind FlyPast magazine and packed with a barrage of archive material and rare illustrations, Beaufighter is a 100-page tribute to Bristol’s valiant warrior.

Featuring:

Adapt, Improve, Excel
Some of the greatest warplanes started life as stop-gaps. M L Wynch describes the evolution of the Beaufighter.

‘Aces’
A directory of those pilots who achieved five or more victories on ‘Beaus’.

Power
‘Two engines hotly pursued by an airframe’ was one tongue-in-cheek description of the increasingly potent Beaufighter. Here we detail the four powerplants that drove this mighty aircraft.

Whispering Death
Jim Grant details the exploits of Australian Beaufighters in the struggle against the Japanese.

Punch
In 1941, the Beaufighter was the most heavily armed fighter in the world. We present a portfolio of its formidable arsenal.

Night Owls
Andrew Thomas describes some of the exploits of night-fighter variants of the aircraft.

Strike Wing
After a faltering start, North Coates proved the Beaufighter to be a lethal anti-shipping weapon, as Graham Pitchfork explains.

Tugging at Sleeves
The Beaufighter was an aircraft that refused to retire. Doug Hall examines its second career, which lasted until 1960.

and much more!

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