COVER IMAGE: The Flying Heritage Collection’s Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik s/n 305401, which has been restored to airworthy condition, as photographed by BORIS OSETINSKY.

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Features

JUST GIVE ME THIS DAY PLEASE Squadron Leader Geoffrey Wellum DFC recently made a very moving after-dinner speech, and with his kind permission we present extracts of it which will doubtless prove of great interest to many Aeroplane readers

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THE SLEEKEST HUNTER Tony Buttler concludes his account of de Havilland Blue Jay air-to-air missile trials using the Hawker P.1109, which began in our January issue, with pilot reports on what the jet was like to fly by “Bob” Broad

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FLYING OFFICER G.S.L. HAYWARD MC Norman Franks continues his Died on Active Service series of brief articles telling how, following the Armistice, luck just ran out for some of the more experienced, and decorated, First World War airmen

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FLYING BRITAIN’S SCHNEIDER RACERS Philip Jarrett concludes his account of what the British Schneider Trophy aircraft were like to fly

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THE TIMELESS TEXAN Kathryn “KT” Budde-Jones relates how experienced pilots recently compared the T-6 and P-51 with a new trainer which takes its name from US aviation heritage

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THE “FLYING TANK” FLIES AGAIN On September 27, 2011, at Novosibirsk, Siberia, an Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik made its post-restoration maiden flight, the first time in 60 years that an example of the Second World War’s most lethal ground-attack aircraft has flown. Mark Sheppard describes how Russia’s most highly-lauded warplane was brought back to life

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LINCOLN AERO CLUB Barry Hunter won the opportunity to write about his flying club as a prize at the 2011 RAF Cranwell Fly-in

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PIONEER TEST PILOT Harry Fraser-Mitchell highlights the flying career of one of Britain’s first test pilots, Lt Wilfred Parke RN

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In News

Judy gets its wings Page 6

Two-seat Spitfire nearly ready Page 7

FW-190 resumes test flying Page 8

Hunter for France Page 10

Combat floatplane unveiled Page11

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69 BAC TSR.2 Martyn Chorlton looks at possibly the greatest aircraft the RAF never had th e

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