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AIR PICTORIAL & AIR RESERVE GAZETTE

Volume XV No. 10

October 1953

Contents:

Front cover - The Vickers-Armstrongs Supermarine Swift F.Mk.4

Editorial - No Longer an Island

Farnborough '53 - A 6-page summary of the recent SBAC displays at the annual Farnborough event.  The wealth of photographs include: H.P. Victor B.Mk.1, Short S.B./5 research aircraft, Bristol 173, RAF Percival Pembroke C.Mk. 1, Avro Vulan, Short S.B./6 Seamew, Short S.B./4 Sherpa, De Havilland Beaver Series 2

Space Flight, Still 2 Generations Away ... say Experts - Definite limitations, return by glider, orbit refuelling, ion rocket

Photographs - De Havilland Comet 2, De Havilland DH. 110 [Sea Vixen]

Technical Notes - CF-100 details, Why banana-shaped helicopters, Ram effect

The Spotter at Farnborough - A 2-page run-down of the offerings at Farnborough by manufacturer.  2 pages, illustrated.  Photographs include the Westland Wyvern, DH Venom NF.3, plus others

These were at Farnborough 1953 - 1½ pages of tabulated data

Mark & Note: SE-5000 Baroudeur, Darcel Mystère 4, Short Seamew, Prestwick Pioneer

Schneider Trophy to Swift: Part 2 Spitfire Marks 5 to 14 - 2 pages, very well illustrated

Photograph - Boeing RB-47E Stratojet

Unfamiliar Outlines - Curtiss Commando

Photos by Request - Northrop F-61 Black Widow, Currie Wot, Hughes XR-11, Vega Starliner

Air Pictorial's Photo-Review - C.A.P. 4 Paulistinha, Canberra bomb-load on special trolley, Spartan Arrow, Piaggio P.149, Saab J 29, Fiat G.5 bis, North American B-25J Trainer, Westland S.55

Did You Know...? - Spot aviation items from all over the world

Letters to the Editor

Photograph - Half-page photograph Fairey F.D.1

Super Sprite - De Havilland's new rocket engine

Photograph - The first English Electric Canberra built under licence by Glann Martin designated the B-57A

Naval Flying - Training in Malta

Please note:  All issues are complete however these are original publications (not reprints or photocopies) and due to the age and quality of materials available these publications display varying degrees of wear - please see photographs which are an integral part of the description and fairly represent the quality of the item above.

Air Pictorial was a British aviation magazine covering contemporary and historical military and civil aviation topics.  The magazine was initially published as 'Air Defence Corps Gazette' in 1939 and in 1941 was retitled to 'Air Training Corps Gazette: The Journal of the Air Training Corps'.  In 1946, the title was changed again to 'Air Reserve Gazette'.  Each change resulted to the numbering being reset to Vol. 1 No. 1 however in January 1947 the numbering was reset to Vol.9 No.1, reflecting the cumulative volumes from 1939 to ease confusion.  In 1951 the title 'Air Pictorial & Air Reserve Gazette' was adopted, and in April 1958 the '& Air Reserve Gazette' part of the title was dropped, becoming Air Pictorial.  By 2002, when the magazine was renamed 'Aviation News' (a title that had been incorporated into it six years previously), Air Pictorial comprised 64 volumes containing 620 issues between them.

Issues of Air Pictorial, as the title suggests, were very well illustrated throughout with photographs, diagrams, cutaway drawings and silhouettes complementing the excellent text therein.