COVER IMAGE: Supermarine Spitfire IIa P7350 was photographed by RICHARD PAVER wearing its newly-applied 41 Sqn markings as EB-G.

ContentsNovember2011Vol39No11IssueNo463(onsaleSep27)

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Features

FLYING BRITAIN’S SCHNEIDER RACERS Philip Jarrett continues his account, begun in our July 2008 issue, of what the British Schneider Trophy aircraft were like to fly

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THE DESERT WARHAWK To conclude the story of The Fighter Collection’s new Curtiss Warhawk, Rachel Morris tells the story of the P-40’s part in the desert war

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SALUTE TO THE MANY Jarrod Cotter describes how an event and a new print will raise funds for the upkeep of the Bomber Command Memorial

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“I SAY OLD CHAP, YOUR PROP’S COME OFF!” To coincide with the forthcoming talk by Capt Eric “Winkle” Brown at the Historic Aircraft Association symposium, Jarrod Cotter looks back at this year’s commemorative event to mark the 70th anniversary of the first British jet flight at RAF Cranwell

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COLLECTING FOR THE JET AGE Ian Brown, Assistant Curator, Aviation, at the National Museum of Flight, describes a new exhibition at East Fortune near Edinburgh based around the forward fuselage of ex-BOAC Boeing 707-436 G-APFJ

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SEE THE WORLD WITH SPEED, SAFETY AND COMFORT Norman Hartley and Bernard Russell survey the Imperial Airways publicity posters and brochures of the 1920s and 1930s

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SOLO FROM DAY 1 Tony Tucker fondly describes his glider training of more than 60 years ago

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NEW S E R I E S DIED ON ACTIVE SERVICE Norman Franks presents the first in a new 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, beginning with Captain J.B. Fox MC

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TRIBUTE TO AN UNSUNG HERO Sqn Ldr Clive Rowley MBE RAF (RET’D) tells the story behind the new markings recently applied to Spitfire II P7350, which commemorates the story of Flt Lt Eric Lock DSO DFC*, who became the highest-scoring RAF pilot of the Battle of Britain while flying with 41 Sqn

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THE ARMY’S PIONEERING GUARDIANS Both the first and youngest recipients of aerial VCs were from 2 Sqn. Martyn Chorlton describes this long-serving reconnaissance unit’s First World War operations which earned it the Battle Honours Western Front 1914-18, Mons, Neuve Chappel, Ypres 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 & 18, and Lys

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98 Competition Your chance to win a superb collection of items signed by Capt Eric “Winkle” Brown

In News

Spitfire I flies

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FHC’s German formation Page 8

Cabinaire restoration Page 11

Canadian B-25 completed Page 12

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Spanish museum opens Page 14

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69 FAIREY IIIF Philip Jarrett tells the story of one of the Fairey Aircraft Company’s great successes of the inter-war years

Aircraft Company’s established 1911

Aeroplane traces its lineage back to the weekly The Aeroplane, founded by the legendary C.G. Grey in 1911 and published until 1968. It was relaunched as a monthly magazine in 1973 by Richard T. Riding (Editor for 25 years until 1998)

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