Articles from the latest issue in digital format
Line-up announced for 2024 D-Day Squadron visit
A provisional list of C-47 and DC-3 aircraft has been confirmed along with an itinerary for next year’s much anticipated tour
Display teams - the Stampe Formation Team
Flying their highly manoeuvrable, brightly coloured 1940s biplanes, the Stampe Formation Team came through some challenging times to enjoy a thrilling 2023 season. Darren Harbar meets team leader Richard Ward
Long way home – the recovery of a missing Lancaster
Eighty years after their Lancaster crashed into a Dutch lake, the remains of three missing airmen have finally been recovered, along with various artefacts from the bomber, as Christian Koenig explains
A Punishing Year - Fighter Command's 1942 offensive
In his second article outlining Fighter Command’s offensive, Graham Pitchfork reviews the harsh ‘lessons learned’ during 1942
Danish Army Piper prepared for flight
The Aeronautical Activity Center Avedoere just south of Copenhagen has finished a superb, nine-year restoration
Hawker Tempest returns to the air
A Hawker Tempest has flown for the first time in almost 70 years. It’s the culmination of an incredible restoration story that’s taken decades to complete. Gary Brown describes this extraordinary return to flight and reflects on the type’s use in India
What does the future hold for UK airshows?
Experienced Flying Display Organiser Bob Barton, who has run many successful shows at Old Warden, among others, offers a personal view on the future of airshows
Exciting year ahead for Manston museum
RAF Manston History Museum has refreshed and added more exhibits – and announced two open cockpit weekends for 2024
Lightning fires up at Bruntingthorpe
Paul Johnson and Richard Clarke report from the Lightning Static Reheat Twilight Event at Bruntingthorpe which took place on November 4
Concorde – the greatest feat in aviation?
Flying on the edge of space, faster than a rifle bullet, Concorde was a cliché queen. The epitome of Anglo-French collaboration, it was unlike anything that had come before it and required an unprecedented level of technological innovation – as Stephen Skinner discovers…
