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Features 14 Beyond Unconventional Karlheinz Kens takes a detailed look at the bizarre Blohm und Voss Bv 141 asymmetric reconnaissance aircraft — and why it lost out to the Fw 189 . . .

20 Pakistan’s Delta Force Usman Shabbir and Yawar A. Mazhar relate how, in 1971, Pakistan’s small force of Mirage delta jet fi ghters made its mark in the Indo-Pakistan war

26 Fly Navy! We celebrate a century of Royal Navy aviation with a selection of Aeroplane images from the Navy Days of the 1940s and 1950s

30 Propliner Progress Roger Carvell reports from Duxford on the continued resoration of the Duxford Aviation Society’s elegant Airspeed Ambassador airliner

51 Reader Survey Tell us what you think! Complete our reader survey and you could WIN a pair of Gold Passes for Flying Legends Air Show at Duxford in July

58 Tourist Twosome Two brothers, two classic Waco UBF-2 biplanes — Frank B. Mormillo explains a unique double act in the USA

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SPITFIRE SP E C I A L 41 Yanks over Normandy This month’s Hidden History fi nds Ron Jones investigating why US Navy pilots were fl ying RAF Spitfi res on D-Day 44 Speed & Guile Doug Taylor uses the experiences of former photo-recce Spitfi re pilot Joe Dalley to explain how the lone PR pilot had to be his own pilot, navigator and fl ight engineer 50 Spitfi re pull-out poster A splendid Richard Paver portrait of Peter Teichman’s Spitfi re PR.XI