THE AEROPLANE

(November 17^th 1944)

Front cover:

Advert:  The British Power Boat Company Ltd.

In this issue:

Air Power In The Land Battle  (Editorial)

Matters Of Moment  (V.2 rockets, Chicago Conference – second week, Handley Page Halifax reception, The Gloster-Whittle experimental monoplane, A parachute party, RUSI lecture plus a large photograph of a Seafire III taking-off using ‘rocket-assisted take-off’)

The War In The Air  (Italy, Russia, Far East and Pacific, Offensive operations of the Allied Air Forces based on Great Britain and the continent from November 5^th to 11^th 1944, This week’s losses – November 5^th to 11^th 1944.  Includes the first photograph of a Bell P-59 Airacomet jet-propelled fighter plus photographs of an Avro Anson XII, the latest form of tail-gun position fitted to the Martin B-26 and a Douglas C-47 Skytrain taking-off with two gliders in tow)

Air Transport – An Air Transport Research Bureau  (Training airline personnel, Co-ordinate research)

Air Transport  (The Air Registration Board, News in brief)

News Of The Week  (Brief snippets)

Aeronautical Engineering – Photo-Lofting  (The production of full-scale templates or patterns of large objects by the use of a photographic process.  First steps, Processing, The value of photo-lofting.  A 2-page illustrated account)

Faithful Annie  (A 4-page account of the evolution of the Avro Anson.  The Avro “Ten”, The Vidal process, The British Anson today.  Includes 19 small photographs of the various marks of Anson and its predecessors.  These include the Avro 618, the Avro 642/2m, the Anson G.R.1, the Anson VI, the Anson X, the Anson XIX and many others)

Strategy In The Far East  (A one-page report)

Mobile Technical Training Units  (An excellent two-page illustrated article describing the formation and use by the USAAF of technical training schools who were sent out in the field to instruct mechanics on the latest developments)

Aircraft Recognition  (The Martin Baltimore IV and the Iliuchin DB-3F.  Includes photos and artist’s drawings from three views of each aircraft together with detailed artists’ illustrations of interesting features)

The Royal Air Force  (The Roll of Honour – The 442^nd Casualty List, Royal Air Force Awards, plus photographs of a De Havilland Mosquito N.F. VI and the flying personnel of escort carrier HMS Vindex on the flight deck in front of a Hawker Sea Hurricane IIC)

Adverts include: Bristol Sleeve-Valve Engines, Callender Aircraft Cables, the Blackburn Cirrus, Desoutter, Lodge Plugs, Black & Decker Portable Electric Tools, the Irvin Air Chute of Great Britain Ltd., KDG Aircraft Instruments, the Short Stirling and Sunderland Flying Boat, the Fairey Firefly, Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah Engines, KLG Plugs, De Havilland, Smith’s Aircraft Instruments, Rex Rotary Files and Cutters, Boulton Paul Turrets, Docker Brothers, Offkwik Paint Remover, Saunders-Roe and The Bristol Aeroplane Company Limited

This magazine is in good overall condition considering its age with no torn, creased or significantly marked pages other than some age-related discolouration to the page edges.  The staples have rusted to disintegration and the pages are therefore loose.  The cover page displays wear in the from of marking, bumps and knocks to the edges and corners, rubbing to the spine and minor fraying to the edges (see photograph).