The Aviation Historian Magazine Issue 34 Back Issue

From major historical upheavals (such as the 1971 collapse of the Rolls-Royce company after its RB.211 airliner engine suffered development problems) to minor historical footnotes (such as French submarine designer Raymond d’Ecquevilly’s brief flirtation with multiplane aircraft in 1908–09), The Aviation Historian’s 34th issue contains a rich and varied mixture of articles, with a global reach, spanning 12 decades. On the military side, Vic Flintham begins a two-part series on the Allies’ Rover system of close air support during World War Two, whereby “cab ranks” of fighter-bombers could be called upon at short notice to attack targets in fast-changing battlefield conditions. In the same issue we look at Iran’s fleet of Boeing 747 air-refuelling tankers and transports; British pilots in the Korean conflict in 1950–53; and the career of a Cambodian ground-attack pilot. Meanwhile, as well as the French multiplanes already mentioned, offbeat subjects include the USA’s less-than-successful acquisition of Italy’s semi-rigid airship Roma in 1921, and a completely bizarre 1950s Royal Aircraft Establishment concept for a fur-covered, tip-rotor-propelled Mach 5 personal transport — now that’s not something you will find in other aviation magazines, is it? All this, and more, is illustrated with high-quality archive photographs and bespoke artwork.