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HAWKER HUNTER SP EC I A L S EC T I O N

36 Flying the Cold War

Front Line Mike McEvoy, former Hunter driver with 2nd TAF in West Germany, recalls being young and in love — with the Hunter

41 The Hunter in detail Mike Badrocke’s superbly detailed Hunter FGA.9 cutaway

42 Sand, Sweat and

Hunters Ex-Hunter FR.10 pilot Nigel

Walpole explains how the RAF Airfi eld Construction Branch made Hunter ops possible in the Middle East in the 1960s

48 Hunter centrespread

pull-out poster An exclusive two-Hunter study from the lens of Richard Paver

51 The Dream Hunters Tim Skeet profi les Delta Jets, the Kemble-based Hunter and vintage jet specialists

Other Features 14 A Tragedy of Errors In this month’s Hidden History Robert F. Dorr reveals both sides of the story of the air combat event of the Second World War which nobody talks about: the “friendly fi re” incident in which two dozen USAAF C-47s were shot down — by the US Navy

30 Shooting Lili In 1968 pilot-for-hire Charles Boddington fl ew the tricky fl ying sequences for the Julie Andrews fi lm Darling Lili. His son, display pilot Matthew, shares his memories of visiting the set as a boy, along with his father’s stunning collection of colour photographs taken while fi lming

22 Blériot — Man of

La Manche Louis Blériot: pioneer of overwater fl ying and fervent nonswimmer. Philip Jarrett sifts fact from myth in the story of the great man’s Channel fl ight 100 years ago

58 A Twenties Twosome A splendid photograph, plus report, by Steven Jefferson, of BAE Systems’ Blackburn B-2 and D.H.60 Cirrus Moth duo, now based together at Old Warden