Big Blue Spad: Eric Downing’s Douglas Skyraider has the distinction of being the last Skyraider to leave active service. He tells us what it’s like to fly this piston-engined brute.
HE 115 Floatplane: A rare Heinkel He 115 torpedo bomber comes back from a watery grave in a Norwegian fjord.
Kiwi Anson: A magnificent Mk I Avro Anson flies again. Get the full-colour poster inside.
1938 Ryan SCW: Editor Rob Fox reports on this rare ‘coupe’ that is heading to Australia.
What’s in Store: Most national museums have vast treasures hidden in storage and not on public display. James Kightly takes a look at what is stashed away behind the scenes.
First Japanese Eyes over Australia: South Pacific Correspondent Michael John Claringbould reveals the first enemy aerial recon mission over Australia was done in a Mitsubishi C5M2.
Flying in a Time Frame: Rob Fox studies an award winning 1932 Waco UEC that has been brought back to life by owner and restorer John Swander.
National Air Force Museum of Canada: The RCAF has a parallel but very different story to that of the RAAF. James Kightly visits this peer museum.
Rabaul October: Steve Birdsall reveals Major-General George Kenney’s bombing offensive against Rabaul, and the swansong of the 19th Bomb Group.
Politics at Altitude: Michael John Claringbould details the war mission of future US President Lyndon Johnson, and tells the story from the Japanese side for the first time.
Yorkshire’s Real Aeroplanes: Breighton Aerodrome in the UK was part of Bomber Command in WWII, but as Mike Shreeve found out, today it is the home of an eclectic collection of antique aircraft.
Desert Kittyhawk: James Kightly reports on the discovery of a crashed P-40 in Egypt and the story that has since emerged of the circumstances that surrounded its loss.
You will find all this and heaps more in Volume 24 No. 1 of Flightpath, on the newsagent stands now.
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