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AEROPLANE meets… ESKIL AMDAL

When it comes to flying fighters, from Spitfire to F-35, this...

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A ‘Spit’ fit for heroes

The combat record of Spitfire LFVc AR501, now flying again following...

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Fabulous FARNBOROUGH Forty-Eight

The first SBAC display at Farnborough, 70 years ago this year,...

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La Ferté Corsair back in the air

Baptiste Salis getting airborne from La Ferté-Alais in newly...

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AEROPLANE meets Tim Davies

In the early 1960s, privately owned, airworthy Spitfires were...

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Pioneers across the Pond

The inside story of how No 54 Squadron’s DH Vampire F3s became...

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SPREADING the WORD

In expanding its overseas missionary programme during the late...

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Secrets of the A-12: the SR-71 Blackbird's predecessor

For close on eight years, from selection to the programme’s termination, Ken Collins lived and breathed the CIA’s Project ‘Oxcart’ — testing the Mach 3-plus Lockheed A-12 reconnaissance aircraft from Area 51 and operating it over North Vietnam on the ‘Black Shield’ deployment, all in conditions of the utmost secrecy

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AEROPLANE meets ANDREW DIXON

His introduction to flying taildraggers came in a DC-3, so no...

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ESCAPE to WEST BERLIN

Aircraft of Poland’s national airline LOT could not normally...