The Aviation Historian Magazine Issue 40 Vorige editie

Marking ten years since the journal’s launch, this 40th quarterly edition of The Aviation Historian also contains articles marking some other significant anniversaries, including the 40th anniversary of a prospective plan to use Buccaneers in the Falklands; the first aerial crossing of the South Atlantic 100 years ago; and a visit made to West Germany 60 years ago by the late, great Roy Braybrook, former Hawker design office alumnus and respected aviation writer. Elsewhere in TAH40, we explore the evidence about the RAF’s use — or not — of chemical weapons during the inter-war period; we continue our three-part series on the political background to the eventful de Havilland Comet airliner venture; we begin a two-part account of the career of Karl Friedrich Bergen, a Second World War Luftwaffe long-range reconnaissance pilot; and we take another look at the RAF’s decision not to switch from rifle-calibre to medium-calibre machine-guns in the late 1930s. All this, and much more, is illustrated with high-quality archive photographs and bespoke artwork.