The Aviation Historian Magazine Issue 6 Retour à l'édition précédente

A Liberator converted for Vietnamese royalty, complete with whitewall tyres — Horten flying-wing gliders in post-WW2 Argentina — Hunting-Clan’s 1950s “Safari” airline service to Africa — Convair’s Pogo and Sea Dart — Swedish de Havilland Mosquito nightfighters — Italy’s first “jet” aircraft — all these are packed into in our sixth quarterly issue. And that’s before we even get to the centenary of the onset of World War One. In typical TAH fashion, we open our commemorative coverage of the Great War not with the obvious and well-known stories, but with something a bit different — an extraordinary but forgotten RFC campaign in Africa. On top of that, we have an astonishing exclusive: we are serialising a long-lost book manuscript we’ve unearthed, consisting of fresh, informal, gripping and often hilarious first-hand recollections by famous aviators of the pre-WW1 period, many of whom went on to be leading figures in Britain’s armed forces and aircraft industry. It’s almost like having a direct telephone line back to 1914 and beyond. All these stories, and many more, are illustrated with high-quality archive photographs and bespoke artwork.