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AIR PICTORIAL & AIR RESERVE GAZETTE

Volume XV No. 4

April 1953

Contents:

Front cover - Boeing B-47 Stratojet

Editorial - The Defence Problem Remains

Ground Attack - A proposed specification for a new, cheap, light aeroplane.  3 pages, illustrated

Helicopter Development in the United States - 3+ pages, illustrated.  Includes tabulated data of current US helicopters

Technical Notes - Readers' technical queries answered

Photographs - McCulloch MC-4 tandem-rotor helicopter and the Sikorsky S-52-2

Aircraft Recognition: Mustang to Sabre, Part 1; The Mustang Miscellany - 3½-pages, very well illustrated

Mark & Note: Fouga 170R Magister, Douglas A3D-1 [Skywarrior], Morane Saulnier MS-755

Notes of the Month: Jet Trainers - Britain, United States, Russia, Holland, Italy

Unfamiliar Outlines - Convair XP5Y-1 [prototype R3Y Tradewind]

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

Air Pictorial's Photo-Review - S.O.9000 Trident, Canberra PR. Mk.3 prototype, Marinavia QR.14 Levriero, Avions Robert Fleury R.F.10, Lockheed P-38J Lightning of Spartan Air Services, Breguet 96-0 Vultur, Piper PA-20 Pacer 125, Avia F.L.3

Readers' Letters

Training List Types - Hawker Sea Fury FB. Mk. II

Photographs - McDonnell F2H-3 Banshee, Short S.B./5 variable-sweep-back-wing research aircraft

Photographs - Aero L-26 Commander, Silver City long-nose Bristol 170 Mk. 32 "Superfreighter"

Naval Aviation

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.