The Aviation Historian Magazine  |  Issue 39
Perhaps the most powerful aviation symbol of Britain’s post-Second World War recovery, the de Havilland Comet was the world’s first commercial jet airliner; but a series of troubles meant its world-leading potential was eclipsed by that of the USA’s Boeing 707. The cover story of this 39th quarterly edition of The Aviation Historian opens a three-part examination of the political aspects of the Comet venture. Also in this issue, which was planned in early 2022, we have several articles which happen to resonate with the Russian invasion of Ukraine which began in late February: one on Sweden’s emergency war airbases, including the use of forests and roads to house secret airfield complexes; one on the early years of civil aviation in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania after their liberation from Russia’s yoke in the 1920s; and one on the USAF’s pioneering use of unmanned drones in the Vietnam War to develop techniques used more recently by both sides in the Ukraine conflict. All this, and much more — including a Supermarine “slip-wing” flying-boat project of the First World War period, a scientific analysis of a 1982 “UFO sighting”, and a pioneer of the tiltrotor concept — is illustrated with high-quality archive photographs and bespoke artwork.
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