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Aeroplane meets... Frédéric Akary
Flying aerobatics helped lead this French airline pilot into the warbird scene — and he’s operated some of the finest machines on the European circuit
What made Avro's Roy Chadwick such a design genius?
It is now 75 years since British aviation lost one of its greatest names. The death of Avro chief designer Roy Chadwick in the crash of the prototype Tudor II robbed the industry of a true visionary, whose creations spanned the eras from the pioneers to the jet bomber age
Unique Desford makes final flight
The one-off Reid and Sigrist Desford completed its final flight on 19 August, on delivery to the Newark Air Museum
Aeroplane Personal Album: Croydon in the ’30s
The collection of negatives loaned to reader John Evans by Pembrokeshire-based friend Joyce Northwood elicits another selection from Croydon Airport in the 1930s, focusing on mainland European visitors to this cosmopolitan hub
The Uruguayan volunteers restoring a Vickers Viscount
Nicknamed ‘the Witch’, a Vickers Viscount that once belonged to a now-defunct Uruguayan airline has been the subject of a taxing volunteer restoration
Legendary test pilot Alex Henshaw on flying the Lancaster
The Vickers-Armstrongs plant at Castle Bromwich turned out 305 Lancasters during World War Two. In a feature first published in Aeroplane’s September 1983 issue, test pilot Alex Henshaw recalled flying the first of them — and the machinations leading up to it
Hurricane in fatal crash at Czech show
Czech-owned Hawker Hurricane IV OO-HUR and its pilot were lost in an accident on 14 August
Early days of the RAF C-130K Hercules
The C-130J, the next generation of Hercules succeeding the C-130K, is due to be retired by the RAF next year. We go back to the ’60s with this article from the April 5, 1967 issue of ‘Aeroplane’ where Mike Hooks takes a deep dive into the RAF’s then new C-130K
How America’s oldest flying fighter took to the skies again
The Nieuport 28C-1 was the first fighter aircraft used in anger by a US military aviation unit. Now, following a magnificent restoration, an original example of this potent machine is flying again
How Avro's Tudor regained its reputation
The Avro Tudor is best-known for tragedies. But, on the Berlin Airlift, it demonstrated a more positive side