June 16, 2016 at 3:13 pm
FEATURING:
Blue & Gold
Seventy years ago the US Navy’s Blue Angels display team gave its first public display. Richard Freail outlines the team’s history.
Farnborough ‘56
To coincide with the 2016 Farnborough International Airshow, we turn the clock back sixty years to the seventeenth SBAC display.
Record Breakers
In May 1976, a Pan Am Boeing 747SP established four new speed records. Tom Pearce looks back at the epic endeavour.
THIS ISSUE ALSO FEATURES:
Cutaway Classics
Using cutaway drawings we delve beneath the skin of the Messerschmitt’s Me 262.
Advanced Turboprop
As the British Aerospace ATP marks its 30th anniversary, Steve Bridgewater takes a nostalgic look back at the advanced turboprop.
Classics Compared
Sebastian Morgan compares and contrasts the Gloster Javelin and Northrop F-89 Scorpion – which heralded a new generation of jet-powered, all-weather interceptors.
And much more!
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