The Aviation Historian Magazine Issue 44 Back Issue

A very warm summer welcome to our 44th quarterly issue, in which we throw open the hangar doors, flood the darkest corners with sunlight and settle into a deckchair with something informative and entertaining to read. Although we don’t do themed issues — or at least, we don’t set out to — there is a distinct Cold War thread running through this one. Our cover story is Professor Keith Hayward’s article on the political and industrial aspects of the BAC TSR.2 strike fighter’s controversial cancellation in 1965. Was the latter a big mistake or merely bowing to the inevitable? We also have Ian Bott’s stunning graphics of the Bristol Bloodhound, commissioned to accompany Chris Gibson’s fascinating history of the UK’s remarkable surface-to-air guided missile — essentially an unmanned supersonic ramjet-powered monoplane containing a lacerating ring of steel that could slice a Soviet bomber in two. Also in this issue: the differing perspectives of the Argentinian and British Air Staffs regarding potential RAF Vulcan bombing raids on Argentina’s mainland during the Falklands/Malvinas conflict of 1982; Fw 190 Jagdbomber ops; First World War RNAS airships, and much more.