Table of Contents
EDITOR'S LETTER
AIR CORRESPONDENCE
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE
Professor Keith Hayward FRAeS takes a fresh look at the political genesis of the international Airbus conglomerate and its purely British rival, the BAC Three-Eleven
PLOUGHSHARES INTO SWORDS
With the help of contemporary documents and drawings, Alan Griffith explores the unbuilt bomber variants of the huge DC-4E airliner and its smaller brother, the DC-4/C-54
THE CORSARIO Jr LEGEND
According to myth, the sole Vought V-100 Corsair Junior was intended for Mexico; Dan Hagedorn, however, tracks the biplane to Brazil, where it had an all-too-brief career
WHERE FALCONS DARE
Peter Lewis chronicles the history of the Dassault Mirage IIIRS photo-recce variant in service with the Swiss Air Force's Fliegerstaffel 10 - the low-level lone wolves
THE LONGEST HOP Part 2
Concluding his two-part series on Qantas's wartime Indian Ocean services, Bob Livingstone details the introduction of Liberators and Lancastrians on the "Longest Hop"
BRING OUT THE BIG GUNS
Mark Russell examines the RAF's extensive research into "heavy firepower" - 37mm cannon and beyond - from the pre-Great War era through to the beginning of WW2
HOWARD HUGHES & THE CONSTELLATION
The eccentric billionaire flew numerous aircraft types, but forged a special relationship with Lockheed's Constellation, of which he acquired several, as Peter J. Marson explains
ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS
Space Medicine specialist Dr Brett Gooden describes the daunting aeromedical challenges facing Erich Bachem and the pilots of his vertically-launched rocket-powered Natter
SOUTH BY SOUTHEAST
In October 1946 three Auster Autocrats departed Lympne, Kent, on a 6,400-mile formation ferry flight to their new owners in Southern Rhodesia, relates Peter Le Blanc Smith
EVERYTHING MUST GO
While researching his book on the type in 2015, Matthew Willis acquired a series of photographs showing a Fairey Barracuda being pushed off a cliff. What was the story?
FROM FURNITURE TO FIGHTER
Italian aviation historian Gregory Alegi pieces together the all-but-forgotten story of the sole Molteni fighter
WHAT'S FRENCH FOR FAIT ACCOMPLI . . ?
Continuing his occasional series on the naming of aircraft in British service, Chris Gibson digs into the archives to reveal how the Anglo-French Puma, Gazelle and Lynx helicopters acquired their (more French than Anglo) names
ARMCHAIR AVIATION
LOST & FOUND
THE HIGHLANDS, CHANNEL ISLANDS & BEYOND
Captain Dacre Watson recalls a year spent flying Vickers Viscounts on BEA routes across the UK, as well as to exotic locations in Europe and the Mediterranean