The Aviation Historian Magazine Issue 46 Vorige editie

From the sedate to the devastating, our 46th quarterly issue covers the whole spectrum of aviation history. Our cover story mark the start of a new series on the USA’s commercial helicopter operators, who brought passengers and mail conveniently to the heart of America’s cities — but at great financial risk, which rarely paid off. Money also played a part in the decision to equip the RAF’s V-bombers with ejection seats only for the pilots, and not for the rest of the aircrew; a thorny issue explored in a new feature by Prof Keith Hayward FRAeS. Elsewhere in this issue, in our series on significant UK aerial weapons, we turn our attention to the Paveway laser-guided bomb; we look at HMS Vindictive, one of the Royal Navy’s first aircraft carriers; and at some bizarre 1960s attempts to create a “jumping jeep” for the British army. Also: test-flying the Supermarine Type 510; a 1914 ducted-propeller flying-machine; Curtiss Hawk biplanes in Peruvian service; Australia’s ambitious Commonwealth CA-23 post-war indigenous jet fighter project; a somewhat farcical attempt to participate in the 1959 Daily Mail Blériot Anniversary Race from London to Paris; and much more.