Articles from the latest issue in digital format
A look back at the 2009 Libyan Aviation Exhibition
The 2009 Libyan Aviation Exhibition was intended to demonstrate a thawing of Tripoli’s once frosty relationship with The West. It wasn’t to be. Within 18 months, Libya had descended into the first of two bloody civil wars. Ralf Kurz looks back at LAVEX 2009
My visits to Canada's Aerospace Engineering Test Establishment at Cold Lake
The Royal Canadian Air Force’s Aerospace Engineering Test Establishment is Canada’s answer to what was the UK’s Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment. Peter R Foster recounts two visits to the Cold Lake-based unit
RAF Spitfire warpaint – Camouflaging a classic
The RAF’s Supermarine Spitfires wore a wide variety of camouflage schemes which illustrate how single-seat fighter camouflage evolved considerably between 1938 and the immediate post-war period. Paul E Eden examined the subject in the March 2013 issue of Aviation News.
Spitfire Mk.III – The forgotten fighter
In the January 2012 issue of Aviation News, Barry Wheeler described the Spitfire Mk.III, which played a brief but significant part in the progressive development of Britain’s greatest fighter.
American Spitfires – a lesser-known story
In the September 2012 issue of Aviation News Jonathan Garraway and Andrew Thomas assessed the often overlooked use of the Spitfire by the US military during World War Two.
The European capital city with seaplane services
While common in the Maldives, Canada and Australia, there are precious few opportunities to fly in an amphibian in Europe. Ralf Kurz reports from Copenhagen
Roswell Revealed: Inside one of the US’ lesser-known airliner storage facilities
Barry Ambrose heads to the New Mexico desert to explore the Roswell International Air Center
First flying Fokker D.XXI in 70 years: A test pilot's view
Leonard van den Broek spoke to test pilot Dan Griffith, who has overseen the 1930’s Dutch fighter’s test flying programme
Restoring first flying Fokker D.XII in 70 years: behind the scenes
For the first time in more than 70 years, there is a flying Fokker D.XXI in the Netherlands. Leonard van den Broek speaks to those behind the project
