Content:
Editor’s letter
Air Correspondence
Teddy Petter & The Case for Shorter Steps /Prof. K. Hayward FRAeS explores the UK’s 1950s procurement dilemma
Excessive Force, pt. 1 /The attacks made by Japanese military aircraft on the airliners of China’s CNAC and Eurasia companies during 1937-41
A Revolutionary Approach British aerial weapons: Iain R. Murray takes a technical look at the UPKEEP weapon used in the famous Dambusters raid 80 years ago
OOH-Là-Là, C’est le Quatre-Mille! Dassault’s Super Mirage 4000, relating how the cutting-edge delta combat aircraft became victim of a classically French existential crisis
Raisng Steam During 1898-1912 Swedish inventor C. R. Nyberg turned his attention to building steam-powered flying-machines
Striving for Accuracy, Pt. 1 RAF’s post-war drive to increase bombing efficiency and the development of new systems for conventional bombing
Spartan’s Olympic Hopeful The elegant 1930s Spartan Executive light tourer is well-known, but it also was used as the basis for an armed military version
Storming Performance pt. 2 Westland Whirlwind fighter: P. Stoddart FRAeS considers, whether fitting new engines might have made the difference
Full Tilt The Weser P.16 tiltrotor
Wings are the Wheels of Today The slow development of British freighter aircraft to a close with a survey of the wartime designs mooted by forward-thinking manufacturers
Argentina’s Big Cats Grumman Panther jet fighter into service in 1958 and later swept-wing Cougar
Nimewacs Anyone? RAF aircraft with the search for a moniker for the ill-starred British Aerospace Nimrod AEW.3
Armchair Aviation
Lost & Found
My First Deck Landing
Off the Beaten Track