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Boeing 727 Flight Adventure
Peter Stark explores three classic routes used by the 727
Peter Stark
Gatow Museum: Berlin’s Treasure Trove
Stefan Schmoll reports on the developments taking place at the museum at the former RAF Gatow airfield in western Berlin.
Belgium’s Multi-Role Mirages
Gen Michel Mandl (ret’d), former Chief of Staf of the Belgian Air Force and a Mirage 5 pilot, recounts the type’s service with the air arm during the Cold War.
UK Carrier Strike: Lightning Force at Sea
The UK Lightning Force has embarked on what is arguably its most important mission to date, taking a meaningful complement of F-35Bs to the HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08).
Jamie Hunter
European tankers gain momentum
Europe’s relative lack of air-to-air refuelling assets has often served to hinder NATO campaigns in the past. Now, as Alan Warnes explains, modernisation plans are starting to bear fruit.
Alan Warnes
Commander’s Update Briefing: BVR Combat
Air Marshal (ret’d) Greg Bagwell CB CBE
Air Power Association President, Air Marshal (ret’d) Greg Bagwell CB CBE, examines what’s required to ‘reach out and touch’ an enemy aircraft.
Air Marshal (ret’d) Greg Bagwell CB CBE
UK Apache Force Fierce in the Fight
As the process of renewing the Army Air Corps’ attack helicopter fleet gathers pace, Tim Ripley looks at the distinguished career of the Apache AH1 in UK service.
Viking’s Special Mission Twin Otter
The Twin Otter is a design that has endured and continues to attract new customers.
Pucará over the Pampas
The Argentine Air Force’s major exercise of 2019 saw all the lessons learned so far this year put to the test. And, as Santiago Rivas reports, it was a final opportunity to see the Pucará perform in its original attack role.
SANTIAGO RIVAS
Fifty-fifty over the Baltics
Hungarian Gripens took part in 50 live scrambles during the 50th rotation of NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission.
Lt Col István Toperczer