Articles from the latest issue in digital format
Historic 'Connie' VIP transport airborne at Chino
Lewis Air Legends’ Lockheed C-121A flies again after seven-year restoration
Europe gets fifth flying Lockheed 12
Ex-Continental Airlines 1937-vintage twin stages through UK en route to Switzerland
Stunning Bf 109 E flies in Germany
British warbird pilot Charlie Brown undertakes testing of ‘Red 12’ at Bonn-Hangelar
Aeroplane meets... John Dodd
Giving up a career as an RAE scientist, and flying for a living instead, was just the start for this exponent of vintage aircraft in all their forms
The Kamikaze flight that brought peaceful greetings
The word ‘kamikaze’ has come to have deadly connotations, but in 1937 a Mitsubishi Ki-15 bearing that name flew to London for the new king’s coronation with friendship in mind — and record-breaking, too
How Rolls-Royce bought a Spitfire for £250
When Rolls-Royce decided it wanted a Spitfire, the company ended up with a wartime veteran that once escorted Churchill’s aircraft —and which gave excellent service for more than four decades
How would a second Berlin Airlift have worked?
Revealing the once-secret plans for how the western allies intended to keep West Berlin supplied in the face of renewed Soviet obstruction
Did Aeroflot airliners spy on NATO?
While many top-secret documents about Cold War aerial intelligence have been declassified, very little has emerged about the use of commercial aircraft. However, files in the Dutch National Archives describe in surprising detail some of Aeroflot’s activities over the Netherlands
When USAF 'Superforts' darkened British skies
As tensions between the superpowers began to flare, the presence of American bombers on British soil again became a familiar and necessary one — and it was down to Strategic Air Command’s Boeing B-29s and B-50s to wield the ‘big stick’
How the RAF's first front-line Lightning pilots joined the 'thousand-mile an hour club'
Remembering the early days with the legendary English Electric fighter
