The Aviation Historian Magazine Issue 8 Back Issue

Issue Description:
Publication of Issue No 8 of The Aviation Historian marks the completion of our second year in business! So, what does this issue have to offer? Stories you may well never have heard of before — including how the Luftwaffe’s KG 26 lost an entire bomber Staffel in a self-inflicted disaster in 1939, with no input from its enemies; how a British engineer’s ideas prompted the USA’s exotic high-altitude hydrogen-engined aircraft project; and how Chinese sabre-rattling along India’s borders in 1963 prompted a massive Nato show of strength in the region. We also pay tribute to David Lockspeiser, the Hawker test pilot and designer who died in March; and our exclusive serialisation of F. Warren Merriam’s lost book manuscript Echoes From Dawn Skies continues with a chapter by Short Brothers test pilot John Lankester Parker. Our World War One-era coverage includes new material on Supermarine’s twin-engined quadruplane nightfighters, while previously-unpublished material from a much more recent conflict is brought to light in a detailed account of the A&AEE’s evaluation of an FMA IA-58A Pucará captured during the Falklands War.