THE AEROPLANE

(May 13^th 1949)

Front cover:

Advert:  Langite Jointing Material – Resists Oils & Spirits

In this issue:

How Things Happen  (Editorial)

Matters Of Moment  (Visiting North America, Approaching the end of the Berlin Airlift, Canadair’as Northrop licence, Record attempts, Beetling by helicopter, Cirrus Minor overhaul life, The BEA Boomerang, Abbreviated Americana, Development flight accident, An overdue honour – Mr. Oswald Short.  Includes a lovely photograph of an Avro Shackleton of Coastal Command, the McDonnell XF-85, the DH [Canada] Beaver and a BOAC Solent moored alongside the Tower of London)

Aerostatics At Maidenhead  (A 2-page review of the Aeronautical Society’s Garden Party at White Waltham.  Includes photographs of a Deperdussin, a Bleriot monoplane, a Sopwith Pup and a Cierva Skeeter)

The White Paper And The Atlantic Pact – I  (The rocket war, The functions of the services, The Woolworth carriers, The real striking force, Atom bombs, Bombing in future wars, The Government White Paper, Wot!  No bombers?, A real Atlantic Pact)

The Fighting Services  (A Hawkinge passing-out, RAF awards, RAF appointments, A last look at the airlift, Organised low-flying, ATC across the sea plus a lovely photograph of a Seafire 17 flying in formation with a Sea Fury 11)

Technical Training Command – IV [Signals]  (A 3-page illustrated article dealing with the various aspects of Signals training)

Salon Miniatures  (A double-page photo-montage illustrating the model-makers art at the Paris Salon)

More About The Paris Salon  (A 2-page illustrated article)

The Need For An Automatic Landing Aid

Air Transport In Africa Today:  V – South Africa  (In this final article of the series the author deals with the past and present of the Union of South Africa’s national air line, South African Airways)

Air Transport Affairs  (Australian notes, British corporations in January, More associate agreements, The charter business, West Africa gets the Bristol 170, Constellations for South Africa, News in brief)

Private Flying  (Practability of lightplanes, Wolverhampton and Derby aviation, News from the clubs plus a photograph of the Chilton DW-1 in flight)

Gliding Notes

plus more including adverts for Short Brothers & Harland Ltd., Lockheed Aircraft Corp., Pyrene Fire Appliances, the RFD Company Ltd., Dagenite, Desoutter, the Fairey Firefly, the Gloster Meteor, Goodyear, the DH Dove (colour), Titanine (colour), the Avro Anson Trainer, Rotol, the Bristol Aeroplane Company Limited (colour), Vickers-Armstrongs Limited (colour), Esso Aviation Products, Canadair, Black & Decker Portable Electric Tools and the Bristol Type 171 helicopter

This magazine is in very good overall condition however the cover does show some light wear in the form of minor bumps to the edges together with some light marking (see photograph).  All pages are present, intact, securely held by the lightly rusted staples, and there are no tears, creases or significant marks other than some typical age-related discolouration to the page edges.