Volume 25, Issue 1, 1983

Dashing ahead in commuter liners by David Godfrey

One of the contenders for the fast-growing market for twin-turboprop commuter liners, the de Havilland Canada Dash 8 relies heavily upon the experience and reputation gained by the larger dash 7. David W H Godfery , PEng,CEng, MRAeS, AFAIAA describes the newcomer

de Havilland Canada Dash 8

Testing to perfection

The work of the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment at Boscombe Down is seldom publicised. In this account, the editors describe its role in proving the integrity of new equipment for the British Armed Forces

BAe 146, BAe Hawk, BAe Nimrod, Boeing-Vertol CH-47 Chinook, English Electric Canberra, Lockheed C-130 Hercules, McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II, Panavia Tornado, SEPECAT Jaguar, Vickers VC-10, Westland Lynx, Westland Sea King

Beginner's luck? By Tegler J

Being the story of how a rookie won at Reno, in the shape of a much-modified and lovingly rebuilt P-51 Mustang named "Dago Red" which took first place in the Unlimited Championship at the 1982 Reno Races. John Tegler provides the details

North American P-51 Mustang

Avionics Analyised: The Hidden Sensors by Mike Hirst

In the third of our Avionics Analyised series, Mike Hirst BTech, MRAeS, describes the part played by the gyro in modern aircraft instrumentation

FIGHTER A TO Z

Junkers Ju 248, Kawanishi K-11, Kawanishi N1K1 Kyofu, Kawanishi N1K1-J Shiden, Kawanishi N1K2-J Shiden Kai, Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet

Volume 25, Issue 2, 1983

Team Lynx and the Westland 30

With the first examples of the Westland 30 now in commercial service, the company is pressing ahead with the uprated series 160 and Series 200. These and more distand improements planned for both the Westland 30 and the Lynx are described in this issue

Westland Lynx, Westland WG30

Balkan Belligerent - the YuRom Close Support Fighter

Subject of joint development and production in Yugoslavia and Romainia, the Orao/IAR 93 close support fighter is only slowly reaching its planned potential. New details of the sinfle- and two-seat versions are presented in this article

IAR 93 - Orao

Last of the Sixty-Threes

The Potez 63.11 was among the most numerous of the aircraft available to the Armee de l'Air in 1940, and production for the Luftwaffe later brought the total built close to 1,000. The story of the 63.11 is told in our warbirds series

Potez 63

Paris Airdata file

A specially extended AirData file section describes in detail and illustrates with photographs and 3-view drawings some 21 aircraft that were exhibited at or subject of presentation at the 35th

Paris Air Show

Aero Maroc Industrie Gepel, Avtek 400, Cessna Caravan, Dornier Seastar, Fairchild T-46, FMA IA 58 Pucar, FMA IA.63 Pampa, Generalavia F.20TP Condor, Gulfstream 1500 Commander Fanjet, Gulfstream American Peregrine, Hawker Siddeley HS.125, IAR 831 Pelican, Microjet 200, Mooney 231, Piper PA-48 Enforcer, Sikorsky S-76, Skyfox Corporation Skyfox, Soko G-4 Super Galeb, Valmet L-80

Volume 25, Issue 3, 1983

Xingu: Academician from the Amazon

The Xingu has joined the Bandeirante as one of the successful products of the Brazilian aircraft industry, selling - as this article explains - not as a business transport and a multi-role military trainer

Embraer EMB 121 Xingu

Tigershark update by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver

Northrops F-20 Tigershark, latest evolution in a highly successful line of light fighters, is poised for its first marketing success. Meanwhile flight testing proceeds apace, as descibed by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver

Northrop F-20 Tigershark

Advanced fighter design

Burns BRA

B R A Burns, author of Air Internationals highly popular series on fundamentals of Design, returns to our pages to describe the factors now influencing the configuration and systems design of advanced fighting aircraft

BAe EAP, Dassault Rafale, Saab JAS 39 Gripen, SEPECAT Jaguar

Mustang - the willing warhorse

North American A-36 Apache, North American P-51 Mustang

The Tiger that turned blue

Grumman F7F Tigercat

Ocean Safari - NATO's quest for a TransAtlantic Passage

Avro 696 Shackleton, BAe Nimrod, Blackburn B.103 Buccaneer (SBAC - Y.B.3), Boeing E-3 Sentry, English Electric Canberra, Lockheed C-130 Hercules, Lockheed P-3 Orion

Avionics Analysed 4 - Aircraft Grey Matter by Mike Hirst

Fighter A to Z: Kawasaki KI-28,Kawasaki KI-45, Kawasaki KI-45 Toryu, Kawasaki KI-60, Kawasaki KI-61 Hien

Kawasaki Ki-28, Kawasaki Ki-45 Toryu, Kawasaki Ki-60, Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien

AirData file: AIDC AT-TC-3,SIAI Marchetti S.226, Cessna Cutlass, Gulfstream Aerospace Gulfstream IV

AIDC AT-3, Cessna Cutlass, Gulfstream Aerospace Gulfstream IV, SIAI Marchetti S.226

Volume 25, Issue 4, 1983

Aeritalia - A growing force by Gordon Swanborough  , William Green

The cornerstone of the Italian aerospace industry is provided by Aeritalia, previously independant companies, as this extensive account by the editors records

Aeritalia G.222, AMX International AMX, AP.68TP-300 Spartacus, ATR-42, Panavia Tornado

ETPS - Learning to test by Paul Jackson

The Empire Test Pilots School has recently celebrated its 40th anniversary. Paul Jackson provides a short account of its origins and its present activities at Boscombe Down

BAe Hawk, Beagle Basset, English Electric Lightning, H-3 Sea King, Hawker Siddeley HS780 Andover, North American Harvard, SEPECAT Jaguar, Westland Gazelle

Mustang - the willing warhorse

In the second installment of this "Warbirds" feature, the development of the merlin Mustang is described, and its operational deployment up to the end of World War II is recorded

North American P-51 Mustang

Debut for the Hornet by Frank B Mormillo

Frank B Mormillo provides an illustrated account of the entry into service with the US Navy and Marine Corps of the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet

McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet

Fighter A to Z

Kawasaki Ki-100, Kawasaki Ki-102, Kawasaki Ki-108, Kawasaki Ki-64, Kawasaki Ki-96

Dornier's technology testbed

The Do24TT described and illustrated

Dornier Do 24

Plane Facts

Sukhoi interceptor prototypes (P-1 and T-3)

Sukhoi P-1, Sukhoi T-3

Volume 25, Issue 5, 1983

Brasilia: The Capital Commuter

Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia

From Skyraider to Nimrod - Thirty years of British AEW by Mike Hirst

Interesting projects include options based on the Andover (including converting to Jet engines, and HS 125 business jet. Also covers Hawker Siddley P.139 project.

Avro 696 Shackleton, BAe Nimrod, Douglas A-1 Skyraider, Fairey Gannet, Hawker Siddeley HS.125, Hawker Siddeley HS780 Andover, Hawker Siddley P.139, Westland Sea King

Avionics Analysed 5 - Aircraft Brain Power by Mike Hirst

Boeing 747, Grumman F-14 Tomcat, SEPECAT Jaguar

Mustang - The Willing Warhorse part 3 - F-82 mustang and P-51 postwar career

Cutaway is of F-82 Twin Mustang

North American F-82 Twin Mustang, North American P-51 Mustang

Fighter A to Z: Kazyanenko No 5, Kawasaki Ki-108, Kondor Dredecker, Kocherigin DI-6,Kondor D I, Kondor D 6

Kawasaki Ki-108, Kazyanenko No5, Kocherigin DI-6, Kondor D 6, Kondor D.I, Kondor Dreidecker

Talkback: Of Fleas and things, Colourful AT's, Falklands losses, Sukhoi Origins II

BAe/McDonnell-Douglas Harrier, Beechcraft T-34 Mentor, FMA IA 58 Pucar, North American Harvard, Sukhoi Su-7, Vickers Virginia, Westland Lynx, Westland Sea King

Full of eastern promise - The aviation museums of North Korea and China

Douglas A-1 Skyraider, Grumman F9F Panther, Lockheed U-2, Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15, North American F-86 Sabre, North American P-51 Mustang, Yakovlev Yak-9

Plane Facts: SIPA's minijets and Classic Arado

Arado Ar 79, SIPA S.200 Minijet, SIPA S.300

Volume 25, Issue 6, 1983

Commuter with a difference by Gordon Swanborough  , William Green

The CASA-Nurtanio CN-235 is the fourth new twin-engined commuterliner to fly this year, but as this article by the editors of Air International explains, it has some significant differences from its trio of competitors

CASA CN-235

The Worlds Fourth Largest Air Arm

Such is the claim that can be made for the Indian Air Force, a well equipped and trained sevice that draws its strength from indigenous, western and eastern sources, as this account shows

Antonov An-12, de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou; also C-7 Caribou, Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar, Folland Gnat, HAL HF-24 Marut, HAL HJT-16 Kiran, Hawker Hunter, Hawker Siddeley HS.748, Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 Fishbed, Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 Flogger, Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 Foxbat, Mil Mi-8, PZL TS-11 Iskra, SEPECAT Jaguar, Sukhoi Su-7

Were the Wrights Right?

Burns BRA

Marking the 80th anniversary of the first successful manned, powered, controlled flight by the Wright Brothers in December 1903, B R A Burns studies the use of the canard layout first employed by the Wrights and the reasons for its recent resurrection

Curtiss XP-55 Ascender, Dassault Mirage III, Dassault Rafale, Eurofighter Typhoon, Foke Wulf F19 Ente, Ky?sh? J7W Shinden, LDA-01, Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-8, Miles M.35 Libellula, Miles M.39B Libellula, Nord 1500 Griffon, North American XB-70 Valkyrie, Payen PA-100, Saab JAS 39 Gripen, SAI Ambrosini S.S.4

Mustang - the willing warhorse - part 4

Completing our history of the North American P-51 in the "Warbirds" series, we describe the Cavalier conversions and bring the story up-to-date with details and a cutaway drawing of the Piper enforcer

North American P-51 Mustang, Piper PA-48 Enforcer