The Aviation Historian Magazine  |  Issue 30
Who’d have thought an individual fast military jet could remain in service for more than 70 years? Yet that is exactly what the oldest of Iran’s McDonnell Douglas F-4D Phantoms is on course to do: delivered in 1968, it has been refurbished and updated, and with further life-extension programmes it is expected to keep flying until 2040! The full story of Iran’s “Diesel Phantoms” is told in a major ten-page feature in this 30th quarterly issue of The Aviation Historian. Other features explore the demise of the mighty Handley Page company 50 years ago; how the Soviet Air Force used the otherwise-unloved Bell P-39 Airacobra to great effect during World War Two; the strange “rotating wing” device invented by France’s Antoine Filippi in 1906; and how Qantas Empire Airways’ flying-boat service was utilised to spy on Japanese encroachment on Portuguese Timor. There’s more: how the USAAF used Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses to find and disable German radar stations in the Mediterranean theatre; the little-known Armstrong Whitworth AW.58 supersonic project, an early rival to what became the English Electric Lightning; Ryan B.1 Broughams in Australia, the Tupolev Tu-104A jetliner’s career in Czechoslovakian service, and Sweden’s use of the de Havilland Venom. All this is illustrated with high-quality archive photographs and bespoke artwork.
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