FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL

(October 11^th 1962)

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:  Cellon – Docker

In this issue:

World News  (NBMR-3 postponement, Two-seat F-105, BOAC VC10 subsidy?, Laminarised wing testing, Bell D-2127, Sir Frank re-visits Cranwell, Aubisque flies, Putting centigrade first, Middle East Gnome orders?, R-R exports, sales and servicing, Zero-zero rocket ejection, Looking into the 1970s, Aiding general aviation, Directing air armament research, The uncrowded airBlackbushe re-opened, EAeS at Prestwick.  Includes two photographs of air refuelling between a Valiant tanker and a Lightning of No. 56 Squadron)

Air Commerce  (BOAC lose £50 million, Eros troubles, GE engine TBO up, Poly-Lunn merger, DC-8 repeat orders, VASP buy Caravelles, TCA install vibration detectors, BEA will fight, Noise abatement forum, Il-62 in the air, PanAm’s jet cargo fleet, Dulles international operational, More Riddle board changes, BOAC V. CAB, Yorkshire airport, Derby Airway’s winter schedules, Tu-124 in service, Faster Comets, Ghana-BOAC Break, New Zealand’s ambitions.  Includes photographs of Sud Aviation Caravelle Horizon and the partly constructed fuselage of the first BAC One-Eleven, American cars being loaded on a Slick Airways Canadair CL-44 and an artist’s impression of the BAC One-Eleven)

Munich Inquiry To Re-Open

TWA Relies On Doppler

BEA And The Future  (Leadership, Increasing cost level, Surplus aircraft capacity, Unsaleable used aircraft, Independent competition)

Interception À La Russe – Fighter School Article Sheds A Little Light On Soviet Techniques  (A 1¼ page article translated from the Russian journal ‘Aviatsia i Cosmonavtika’ [Aviation and Cosmonautics] which includes a photograph of the Tupolev Tu-128 Fiddler)

Airport – And Air Traffic – Problems  (Concerns expressed at the AOA conference)

The P.1127 Analysed By Two Chief Test Pilots And An Engine Designer  (A lovely 6-page review of the Hawker P.1127 experimental V/STOL predecessor of the Kestrel and the Harrier.  Well illustrated with diagrams and photographs of the aircraft in flight)

New Russian Turbine-Powered Contenders  (A double-page photo-montage of four photographs – the Mil V-2 and V-8 helicopters and two large photos of the Il-62 long-range airliner)

Sport And Business  (Rochester under new management, Beagle dealers, Cable Group’s executive aircraft, Skylarks for Korea plus a photograph of the Apache 235 in flight)

Final Approach To Aeronautical Inn Signs  (The fourth, and last, article in a series about public house signboards with an aviation angle)

Missiles And Spaceflight  (Six orbits by Sigma Seven, The five-year record, Alouette in orbit, Explorer 14 in stretched orbit, Lunar supply vehicles planned, Gemini escape, Lunar simulator, New recruit for ESRO?, Schoolboys launch rocket, Nikolayev and Popovich on film, Second Soviet cosmonaut attends spaceflight congress.  Includes a photograph of Sigma Seven lifting-off from Cape Canaveral and Explorer 14)

Progress In Space-Law:  The Fifth Colloquium  (Points from the papers, Points from the speeches)

Industry International – Flight Systems, Products & Company News  (Bendix PB-60 autopilot, Kuwait’s concrete runway, Thermo-electric cooling, Manchester airport flooring, Rationalised purchasing, Elliotts’ Fairchild representation)

Service Aviation – Air Force, Naval And Army Flying News  (Skybolt progress check, Lightning’s non-stop 2,000 miles, Mirage training, RAAF – RNZAF co-operation, Canadian Spitfire plus a photograph of a Messerschmitt Me 262 at RAF Gaydon)

plus more including adverts for the Boeing-Vertol 107 [Chinook], the Nord Aviation Super Broussard (double-page), Stream-Line Filters Limited, B.P  - Finnair, the Avro 748, Rolls-Royce Spey By-Pass Jets, the Bristol Bloodhound, Bristol Siddeley Engines Limited, Westland Helicopters, the Handley Page Dart Herald, Esso, Beagle Aircraft Limited, English Electric Expanded Scale Voltmeters and Rumbold High Density Seats – BAC One-Eleven

This magazine although showing some light bumps, knocks, rubbing to the cover and page edges in addition to some light marking (see photograph) is in very good overall condition considering its age.  The staples are rusty but remain sound and continue to hold all pages securely.  All pages are present and free from tears, creases and significant marks other than some typical light age-related discolouration to the page edges.