The magazine published for the serious aero enthusiast and the official organ of the Royal Aero Club.  Packed with technical and specification data and well illustrated with photographs and drawings throughout.

Front cover:

Advert:  The Fairey Rotodyne

In this issue:

From All Quarters  (Queen Mother visits her Squadron, Helicopters for the Queen’s Flight, Igor Sikorsky here, The RNLI and helicopters, Einstein and aeronautical engineering, RAF in Dutch liberation celebrations, Beech acquire Morane-Saulnier licence, Canada and the Vulcan, Independent Viscounts and Herons, Royal visit to the industry, Ypenburg’s big day.  Includes photographs of the Queen Mother stepping out of a Naval S.55 and a Caravelle on the ground)

First 1955 National Air Races – The Swansea Meeting  (A one-page preview with a table of entrants and aircraft)

Here And There  (Farnborough Jubilee postponed, Major French air rally, Strange accident, Constellation search, USAF accidents, Education and industry plus a lovely photograph of an Avro Vulcan B.1)

The Supercharged Turboprop  (A 3-page illustrated technical article summarising Dr. Hooker’s SAE lecture on the Bristol BE 25, successor to the Proteus)

Automatic Interception  (A 2-page article discussing the all-weather single-seaters defending the United Kingdom.  Typical practice tactics, Accessories after the fact.  Includes a photograph of an F-86D Sabre firing a salvo of rockets)

Meeting Of The Airways  (A double-page series of sketches illustrating the path followed by passengers using London Airport’s new terminal building)

Aircraft Intelligence  (A review of the latest aircraft from the USA and France.  These are the Convair F-102A, the Douglas B-66, the Lockheed TF-104, the North American F-86H and the Potez 75.  Includes a photo of the first YC-97J Stratofreighter together with 3-view artist’s illustrations of the Grumman S2F-1 Sentinel)

Actualités Françaises – Part 2:  Around The Industry  (A 3-page article continuing the exploration of the French Aircraft Industry by the author.  Morane-Saulnier, A visit to SIPA, Calling on Marcel Dassault.  Includes photographs of the Morane Saulnier MS760, the open nose-cone of the MS760, the cockpit of the prototype MS733, the interior of the Nord 2501 prepared for casualty evacuation and the Sipa 200 Minijet)

Silencing Jet Helicopters  (A 4-page technical paper profusely illustrated with charts and graphs)

Rocket Motor Cooling

Sopwith Camel – Part 2  (An excellent 4-page article; no. 10 in the continuing “Historic Military Aircraft” series.  This includes notes on individual machines, Known serial number, Service use plus photographs of a Standard Beardmore-built 2F.1 Camel, and experimental Camel 2F.1 with a twin-Vickers gun arrangement, a Camel 2F.1  tking off from a lighter towed behind a destroyer, a Camel 2F.1 slung under the airship R.23, the undercarriage of an early deck-landing Camel 2F.1, the Sopwith Scooter and a Sopwith Swallow)

Club And Gliding News

Tower Of London  (A 2-page illustrated article describing the radar, radio and lighting controls in the new central building at London Airport)

Civil Aviation  (An Australian achievement, Ringway agreement concluded, Logging time with the QEA, Atlantic air-drop, Pakistan merger, Bushmaster – alias Trimotor, Recruitment of airline pilots, Testing of pressure cabins, Brevities)

Service Aviation – Royal Air Force And Fleet Air Arm News  (Exercise Sky High, Hunters in Germany, Spitfire JMR, HMS Leopard, Australian Naval air re-equipment, New Darwin airfield, RAF yacht club plus a lovely profile photograph of the Valiant B.1 about half-way along its take-off run)

plus more including adverts for Dowty twin fuel pumps, Technoimpex Gliders, the Blackburn Universal Freighter, the De Havilland Beaver, the Folland Gnat, the Vickers Viscount (colour), Rotax (colour), the Handley Page Herald, Decca Radar, Esso, Armstrong Siddeley Aero Engines – Vatour S.O. 4050-03, Martin-Baker, Marconi Airport and Aircraft Radio Systems, Rotol Propellers and Equipment (colour), Bellman Hangars and the Bristol Freighter

The cover of this issue exhibits minor knocks, bumps, and rubbing to the page edges, spine, and corners (see photograph).  The staples are rusty but sound holding all pages securely.  All pages are present, free from tears, creases and significant marks other than some typical light age-related discolouration to the page edges with the magazine being in very good overall condition for its age.