FlyPast | July 2026
BANG! YOU’RE ALIVE!
FlyPast July 2026 explores many topics key to classic aviation, but among them is an absolute life-saver – the development of the ejection seat. Ken Ellis describes the men and machines that pioneered British seats, culminating in Martin-Baker’s famous Meteors, while RAF fast-jet pilot Tex Jones recalls having to eject not once, but twice! It’s a subject never more relevant than today following the recent and thankfully non-fatal collision of two Boeing EA-18G Growlers in Idaho.
JET HUNTER JOE
The impressive Aces High gallery played host to wartime USAAF P-51 Mustang pilot Joe Peterburs in April. FlyPast editor Tom Allett reports.
LEGENDARY TRIPLANE
In our regular Classics section, we scrutinise the origins and use of the Great War’s fabled Fokker Dreidecker – and profile one of its finest exponents (and it’s not the Red Baron!).
SPITFIRE 90
Darren Harbar talks to Matt Jones about the spitfire.com boss’s recent anniversary tour in a Spitfire marked as prototype K5054.
RESEARCH JET
The one-off Convair XF-92A was an oddity – but it afforded vital research into delta wing jet designs, as Jozef Mols reveals.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in FlyPast July 2026.