October 2010

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Features
Ultimate interceptor
Andy Marden charts the history of the USAF’s ‘super-fighter’, the F-106 Delta Dart.

Gulf ‘taxi’
Avro Ansons played an important, but often overlooked, part in Aden. Vic Campden remembers his time flying the venerable ‘Annie’ so far away from home.

Silent flight home
A bombing sortie in a Handley Page Halifax went badly wrong for Ronnie Waite and his crew. The pilot, now 97, looks back on a night he’d rather forget.

Happy birthday
As celebrations to mark Bristol Britannia XM496’s 50th birthday begin, Nigel Price makes the journey to its Cotswolds home and meets its keepers.

Storch airborne
Darren Harbour captures Peter Holloway’s UK-based Fieseler Storch on its first air-to-air photo shoot.

Warbird academy
Eric Dumigan learns what makes a Vought Corsair tick by attending the exciting new Vintage Wings of Canada warbird ground school.

Riding shotgun
Editor Ken Ellis looks at the UK’s latest Vietnam helicopter, Phil Connolly’s combat veteran Hughes OH-6.

Three-in-one
FlyPast ventures to Bruntingthorpe to meet the group putting life back into an awesome ‘Cold War’ warrior – the Buccaneer.

Regulars
The way we were
Andy Thomas charts the history of 78 Squadron from the Great War to modern day Afghanistan.

What’s new
A selection of must-have books and other goodies are given the FlyPast air-test.

Museum
Simone Bovi visits the fascinating and newly opened Volandia park collection at Milan Airport.

Under pressure
Pete West’s artwork this month profiles the last of the Percival ‘line’ – the experimental Hunting 126.

Airshow
Top coverage from around the world, with special features on Oshkosh and the fund-raiser at East Kirkby, plus forthcoming UK dates.

FlyPost
Bumper bag of readers’ letters and comments.

‘Ops’ board
Where to go and what to see.

Finals
Finals this month marks the 100th anniversary of Thomas Sopwith’s first ever flight as a pilot.
Big bombs
As the air war in World War Two progressed, an amazing array of weaponry was developed for the RAF ‘heavies’. We present a series of features on the ‘block-busters’ of Bomber Command.

Power of the pen
Hugh Trevor tells of a war correspondent, a Lancaster and a 4,000lb ‘Cookie’ bomb.

Blockhouse buster
John Bell’s time with Bomber Command culminated in unleashing ‘Tallboys’ on V-2 sites. Hugh Trevor talked to him about life as a bomb-aimer.

Upping the ante
A photographic portfolio from the Peter Green collection of the large weapons that became available to the RAF in World War Two.

Dam Busters on canvas
We take a look at some of Robert Taylor’s artwork, featuring his famous 617 Squadron Dam Busters depictions.

News
B-29 ‘FiFi’ – in the air at last
South African Vampires to fly
Germany’s movie star Mitchell
Bruntingthorpe’s Lightning ‘sheds’
Dutch Spitfire airborne
US Mustangs for sale
Sea Harrier heads for Greece

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