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74 Sqn and the Lightning F.3
By TONY CLAY
Tony Clay describes the Lightning F.3 and its time with the RAF’s famous ‘Tigers’, 74 Squadron
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ALCONBURY PHANTOMS - WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
By Peter R Foster
Peter R Foster details the life and times of the 10th TRW RF-4Cs that once graced the skies over Cambridgeshire
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NF Meteors: The RAF’s First Jet Night-Fighters
By DOUG GORDON
Armstrong Whitworth turned the Meteor from a simple day-fighter into one of the first radar-equipped all-weather jet interceptors. Doug Gordon remembers the career of the early night-fighter Meteors, the NF.11 and NF.13.
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TSR2: The greatest aircraft the RAF never flew?
By DR KEVIN WRIGHT
… Sandys prescribed that the English Electric P.1, soon to enter service as the Lightning, would be … test. Key Collection In March 1964 another proposal, ‘Plan P’, suggested a 193-strong fleet. These were to be shared …
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RAF's 4 Squadron - how we learned to look after the Avro Rota autogyro
By T. CROCKETT
… of aeronautical science and my stomach nearly left my body when I saw it. It had no main planes and no rudder, … the aircraft began to vibrate violently so that my whole body was shaking from head to foot. When the rotor blades …
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Valiant: The first V-Bomber
By STEPHEN SKINNER
Overshadowed by the Vulcan and Victor, the Valiant was the only one of the V-bombers to drop a nuclear bomb, the first to see combat and the RAF’s initial operational tanker. However, its career was cut short by structural problems, as Stephen Skinner describes
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Avro Shackleton AEW.2 - Cold War ‘Sentinel’
By Group Captain David Greenway (ret’d)
Group Captain David Greenway (ret’d), a former Shackleton pilot and commanding officer of 8 Squadron, talks to Dr Kevin Wright about the Shackleton AEW.2 in RAF service.
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V-Force pathfinder - the story of the unique black Valiant B2
By CHRIS GIBSON
The concept of target-marking had been proved with great success by the RAF of World War Two, but how would it translate to the jet bomber age? The Vickers Valiant was chosen to lead the role into this new era. Why, then, did the menacing and very capable ‘Black Bomber’, the Valiant B2, end up being a one-off?
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Life as a Victor Air Electronics Officer
By FlyPast
Squadron Leader Mike Beer MBE tells FlyPast what life was like as an Air Electronics Officer on the Handley Page Victor.
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Vulcan and Victor - their mini delta precursors
By TONY BUTTLER
Tony Buttler examines the scale test-beds that preceded the Victor and the Vulcan – and V-bombers that might have been
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Hendon's Lancaster - 137 combat sortie veteran
By Nigel Price and Andrew Simpson
Avro Lancaster ‘S-for-Sugar’ carried out an incredible 137 combat sorties during World War Two and proudly thumbed its nose at Hermann Göring. Andrew Simpson and Nigel Price profile this Bomber Command veteran...
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Supermarine's superior Southampton flying boat
By JAMES KIGHTLY
… metalhulled examples (the fleet was later renumbered as P-151 to P-158). The Southamptons were shipped to Argentina, entering … in April 1932 based around the spare hull. It was coded P-159, the other Southamptons having been re-serialled in …
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Qantas 'Connies' traversing the globe
By Chris Frame
… and included a scaled-up wing based on that used for the P-38 Lightning fighter; and a tri-finned tail made for a high … sourcing spare parts for an already preserved Lockheed P-2 Neptune. De La Hunty was well aware of the …
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PBA - The New England airline that loved the Dakota
By Barry Lloyd
Barry Lloyd details the lengthy career of the DC-3 with US carrier Provincetown-Boston Airline (PBA).
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How Boeing builds the 787 Dreamliner
By Airliner World
… for the airliner’s wing centre section, wing-to-body fairings and assorted undercarriage and fuselage doors, …