THE AEROPLANE

(February 1^st 1946)

Front cover:

Advert:  Titanine Aircraft Finishes

In this issue:

An Unsatisfactory Debate – Editorial

Matters of Moment – Aviation related updates and news snippets over the last week

A New Cunliffe-Owen Project – A one-page preview of the Concordia passenger aircraft illustrated with 3-view drawings

News of the Week

A KLM Jubilee (or Vivatuary) – A review of Captain Henry Spry Leverton’s 25 years with KLM

Target Gliders – An interesting 3-page well illustrated article

The Royal Air Force – News from the RAF

The New Hawker Fury – A 5-page illustrated review of this Hawker aircraft designed to meet air force and naval requirements.  A very well illustrated review which includes a large cutaway drawing with 33 key features identified

Clean Lines at Close Quarters, The Hawker Fury; Bristol Centaurus Motor – A double-page of two large close-up photographs of the aircraft in flight with descriptive text

Air Transport – News related to the world’s airlines

Cabin Air-Conditioning in Airliners – A 3½ page illustrated article

Correspondence

Please see photographs for a visual indication of content and quality – this is the actual magazine you are bidding on.  Each issue includes a variety of advertisements, some in colour in later issues.

The front cover page exhibits some minor marks, light bumps and rubbing to the spine and to the cover page edges (see photograph).  The staples are rusted but sound with all other pages securely held.   All pages are present and free from any tears and significant marks other than light age-related discolouration typical on newsprint of this era.  This magazine is in very good overall condition considering its 80 years of age.