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‘Dickie’ Cork - There was none better
By TIM HILLIER-GRAVES
Fleet Air Arm pilot ‘Dickie’ Cork was part of the Battle of Britain. Killed in a Corsair crash in Ceylon that cast over him a shadow that has only now lifted
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REVEALED: Electronic Intelligence gathering Chipmunks over Berlin
By Ben Dunnell
Cold War Berlin, and the RAF Gatow Station Flight’s Chipmunks are a familiar sight over the city, carrying out photographic ‘spy’ sorties that brought back imagery of the highest value. But sometimes they undertook another, even more clandestine task, one that’s not been publicly documented until now: the gathering of electronic intelligenc
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FROM UNDESIRABLE TO UNDENIABLE
… it “certainly has the capability to develop a new narrow-body aircraft, [it has a] young and very successful portfolio …
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A LESSON FROM HISTORY - Antoinette replica
By DAVE MACKAY
Antoinette replica “Like flying on top of a jelly in a wind”. What made it so bad compared with what we know of the original? Virgin Galactic’s chief pilot investigates
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A perfect storm
One of Europe’s last DC-3s to offer passenger flights will be grounded later this year. Richard Schuurman learns why the Dutch Dakota Association has been forced to cease operations
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Tactical Fighter Meet ‘86 at RAF Waddington
By DR KEVIN WRIGHT
Early August 1986 saw a gathering of more than 70 aircraft from eight NATO countries at RAF Waddington for Tactical Fighter Meet (TFM) ‘86. Dr Kevin Wright talks to a former Phantom crew about one of the largest Cold War exercises held in the UK.
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Was Alberto Santos Dumont the true father of flight?
… jacket. He would activate the left octagon by leaning his body to the right and vice versa. With this he could regulate …
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A Winner?
By Tim Ripley
After long delays it is expected that Ukrainian pilots will be taking to skies over their homeland in western supplied F-16 fighters. Tim Ripley looks at the impact the jets will have on the war
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John Grandy “Marvellous in the air”
By Ben Dunnell
… Sqn Ldr Paul Richey regularly piloted MkIb R7752. P. H. T. GREEN COLLECTION The birth of the ‘Bombphoon’. R8831 …
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UK2000 Aberdeen & Carlisle
By Jessica Bannister-Pearce
SCENERY REVIEW FOR MSFS 2020. Two airports in the north from the renowned scenery makers.
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Leading Edge
By R. E. BISHOP
Seldom has there been greater optimism about British aviation as when the DH106 Comet jet airliner first took to the air 75 years ago, and stole a march on the world. As we now know, a run of tragedies meant the lead wouldn’t last. But how had de Havilland achieved such a coup? In an article written specially for The Aeroplane in May 1952, just as the Comet 1 was entering service, the company’s chief designer R. E. Bishop described the thinking behind this commercial pioneer
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Aeroplane meets PAUL BENNET
By Ben Dunnell
… very generous in letting Paul fly his warbirds, including P-40E Kittyhawk VH-KTY. “Suddenly I’d flown the Hurricane way … It’s probably a bit slow in roll rate when compared to the P-40, but you know that when you fly it so you plan for it.” … came to the UK, in order to fly The Fighter Collection’s P-40C during the Flying Legends show at Leeds East. For this …
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‘FULL OUT’ AT EVERYTHING
By JOHN SHIELDS
… was spent with Lt Col Henry ‘Baby’ Brown, a World War Two P-51 Mustang ace and himself a former PoW, from the Super …
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Excalibur’s return
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, a Fokker C-31A Troopship returned to the Netherlands to a great fanfare. But what has happened in the years since?
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A TACTICAL GATHERING
Exercise TAC Blaze UK: Joe Campion speaks to members of RNLAF and DHC about its multi-type training exercise.