March 2012 Vol 40 No 3 Issue No 467 (on sale Jan 24) Contents Contents

COVER IMAGE: Gloster Meteor T.7 WA591/G-BWMF caught on camera by RICHARD PAVER while en route from Coventry to the

Imperial War

Museum Duxford Autumn

Air Show on October 16.

A mainly French affair

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BAD NIGHT AT DA NANG: THE CRASH OF “BROWN 2” On the night of July 8, 1967, a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress attempted to make an emergency landing at the huge air base at Da Nang. The attempt ended in disaster. J.T. Chapin describes what happened

FLYING OFFICER L.C. HOOTON 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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A MISTY MORNING AT FANTASY OF FLIGHT Moose Peterson was given the opportunity of a special photo-shoot at Kermit Weeks’s famous museum in Florida, and provides an overview of its history and future

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KOOLHOVEN F.K.50 The latest in our Airliner Archive series of inter-war types introduces a comparative rarity

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A MAINLY FRENCH AFFAIR Eighty years ago the French held an International Light Plane Competition, and Aeroplane’s archives yielded some glass negatives depicting the competitors. Mike Hooks describes the trials, tribulations and successes

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MOSQUITO REBORN Gary Bridger describes how master craftsman Glyn Powell has created a Mosquito factory in New Zealand

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THE MAGNIFICENT METEOR The registration G-BWMF, standing for Great Britain/ Whittle/Meteor Flight, was

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69 HANDLEY PAGE O/100 AND O/400 The Type “O” twin-engine bomber not only transformed the Handley Page company’s hopes and dreams almost overnight, but also changed the bombing policy of an entire air force. A.H. Fraser-Mitchell tells the story of the influential “Bloody Paralysers”