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From Bond to body hunts: Wg Cdr Ken Wallis' autogyro adventures
By Ben Dunnell
… man and his machines, equipped with film cameras, aided in body hunts. Ben Dunnell reports Starring in a James Bond … then there’s nothing, then there’s lush growth where the body’s buried. I was doing all the aerial photography for … chapters in the Wallis autogyro history. … From Bond to body hunts: Wg Cdr Ken Wallis' autogyro adventures …
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Playing the Enemy
By Davide Daverio
Davide Daverio goes behind the scenes with VFC-204 ‘River Rattlers’ in New Orleans to discover how the ‘aggressor’ unit operates
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Delta A330 landed short at Schiphol
ADelta Air Lines Airbus A330-323 touched down in the grass, 11m before the runway threshold, an investigation by the Dutch Safety Board has found.
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Testing times at Empire Test Pilots’ School
By Chris Croot
Chris Croot visited the world-renowned Empire Test Pilots’ School to find out what it takes to train a flight-test professional
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Phoenix shows its fire power
By Riccardo Niccoli
Italy’s Leonardo is developing the world’s only new-generation combat helicopter.
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End in sight for French nuclear Boeings
By Frédéric Lert
With all the C-135FRs now replaced with Airbus A330 MRTTs, the final three French Boeing KC-135RGs of the 4/31 Sologne Refueling Squadron are all that is left of the mighty Boeing fleet. Frédéric Lert details how their retirement is now planned for 2025
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FROM THE SPARK TO THE LIGHTING
… 2,000ft target, to be abandoned, permitting the rear body to be redesigned to reduce drag. Clearing the YF-22As …
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Thrustmasterster Review
A recent update to an icon
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Fly, Assist, Inspect
By Ian Harbison
… (ECMO) support which temporarily draws blood from the body to allow artificial oxygenation of the red blood cells …
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Fixed and focussed
By Glenn Sands
Owned by rock star Bruce Dickinson, Caerdav is one of the UK’s...
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INTO THE WIDOW’S WEB
By Nick Chismar provides an update
… RESTORATION It’s been about 70 years since Northrop’s P-61 Black Widow last flew. But with every passing day, the … efforts, imagination, and sheer will to restore Northrop P-61B Black Widow 42-39445 to f lying condition are known the … attention of so many was something nobody expected: the P-61 had a new look! Officially revealed at MAAM’s 33rd …
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SR-71 Blackbirds in Britain
By BOB ARCHER
Bob Archer celebrates the 50th anniversary of the mysterious black SR-71 arriving in the UK
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The curious tale of how two airshow Strikemasters ended up in an African civil war
By Adam Landau
In February 2003, two aircraft best-known for flying at British airshows left the UK for ‘film work’ in South Africa — but neither ever arrived there. How did two BAC Strikemasters repeatedly slip through the fingers of customs officials, and end up taking part in one of Africa’s bloodiest civil wars?
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BIG APPLE IN THE ISLANDS
By Martin Scharenborg and Ramon Wenink
As part of a busy year of deployments, the New York Army National guard flew into Puerto Rico. Martin Scharenborg and Ramon Wenink on their Brigade Level Exercise
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Trident a revolutionary Failure?
As revolutionary as the Trident was, the UK’s first ‘Tri-liner’ didn’t live up to its potential. Stephen Skinner details its development as FlyPast asks – was it destined to fail?