FlyPast January issue – OUT NOW

New-look issue featuring:

Spotlight on the Bristol Blenheim
To get FlyPast’s 30th anniversary year off to a great start, we are launching a brand new regular series that profiles a famous aircraft type – and the people behind it – in detail. We get things underway with one of the RAF’s most important machines of the late 1930s – the Bristol Blenheim.

Origin and history
Dave Willis outlines the Blenheim’s story, from prototype to preservation.

Contemporaries compared
We look at how the type shaped up against other light or medium bombers that first flew in 1936.

Men behind the Blenheim
Air Cdre Graham Pitchfork profiles two of the many airmen that flew the Bristol twin in combat.

Inside the Blenheim
Cutaway artwork of an Mk.I from Mike Badrocke.

PLUS!
What do you think I am? Live Bait?
David Leininger profiles a multi award-winning P-51 Mustang fighter and tells of a moving reunion with a World War Two ‘ace’.

London’s ‘forgotten’ airfield
An important World War Two airfield in Essex is slipping from the memory, but a local group is determined to keep its heritage alive, as David Martin reports.

Guarding the legacy
Steve Beebee talks exclusively to the Old Flying Machine Company’s Sarah Hanna and Laura Bonhomme about the team’s plans and their famous Spitfire, MH434.

The Way We Were
Andrew Thomas charts the history of the RAF’s famous No.1 Squadron, on the eve of the unit’s disbandment.

For Valour – Flying Office Arthur Scarf
In the first of a new series, Air Cdre Graham Pitchfork tells of a Blenheim pilot’s bravery in the Far East.

and much more!

FlyPast’s January 2011 issue is available now from WHSmith and other leading newsagents for just £4.20. Alternatively, order your copy with FREE P&P* from our online shop.

*UK and BFPO only