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CONTENTS
A
ISSUE NUMBER 43 – JULY/SEPTEMBER 2014
FEATURES
REGULARS
7
WILSON’S COMMENTARY
The editor on media frenzies
and a recalcitrant former
foreign prime minister.
24
SPITFIRES FOR AUSTRALIA
24
In early 1942 the RAAF was in
desperate need of fighters ‘at home’
as Japan advanced.
8
AEROGRAMMES
Bits and pieces of news
and information from around
the aviation world.
32
FUTURE RAAF:
POSEIDON & TRITON
Australia’s maritime reconnaissance
future settled.
17
WARBIRDS
& HISTORIC NEWS
What’s going on in the
world of old aeroplanes.
38
38
A350, 777X & 787-10
The new generation of widebody
airliners is on its way.
20
MOVEMENTS
Some of the aircraft spotted
around the traps over the
last few months.
44
ON THE SWATH
An exciting cockpit ride with a
Beaver ag pilot as he plies
his trade back in the day.
77
AERO REVIEWS
A trio of new books for you,
two of them on a significant
anniversary.
50
60
HAWKER’S HOTROD
Sea Fury – the last of the
Hawker piston-engined fighters.
60
THE SCOOTER
Douglas A-4 Skyhawk,
a masterpiece of compact,
efficient design.
84
AIR SHOWS
Tyabb, Albion Park and the
‘Antiquers’ annual fly-in.
68
PEOPLE: ‘KORGI’
90
ALBUM
Harrier, so far the world’s
only successful operational
V/STOL combat aircraft.
68
Karl-Gösta Liljekvist – Swedish
Cold War warrior and test pilot
now retired to Australia.
74
MINI PROFILES
COVER
Sea Fury – the last
of Hawker’s piston-
engined fighter line
captured by BRENDAN
CUMMINS/bcpix.
Its story starts
on page 50.
Extremes of aircraft design – a slow,
stately biplane and a fast jet fighter.
94
AERO MODELS
Hawker jets in metal
and plastic.
98
SAFE FLIGHT
An inevitable outcome,
tragically.
78
SKYWARRIOR:
NIGHT FIGHTERS
456 Squadron, the RAAF’s
first and only night fighter unit.

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