The Aviation Historian Magazine  |  Issue 46
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.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in The Aviation Historian Magazine Issue 46.