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AIR PICTORIAL & AIR RESERVE GAZETTE

Volume XIV No. 8

August 1952

Contents:

Front cover - Boeing YB-52 Stratofortress

Editorial - Much Dispute-But No Ideas

Shooting Down the 600 m.p.h. Bomber: The Fighter Pilot needs a new Weapon - A 2-page article describing the role and development of the fighter aircraft.  Includes photographs of the Hawker Hurricane and the Bristol Fighter Type F.2B

Two Outstanding British Jets - Details of the Bristol Olympus 9,750lb thrust turbojet and the Proteus III turboprop.  Includes a photo of the Bristol Olympus

Photographs - Fairey Gannet, Lockheed F-94C Starfire

Aircraft Recognition; Bristol Twins Part II: Beaufighter to Brigand - 3½ pages, very well illustrated with small photographs of various types

Two New Global Bombers - 3-view silhouettes and short summary on the Boeing YB-52 Stratofortress and the Convair YB-60

U.S. Naval Aircraft - Details of the 1952-53 orders

Training List Types - McDonnell F2H-2 Banshee.  Includes small 3-view silhouette, 2 small photos and an illustration with key features identified

Mark & Note: SNCASO SO-30P Bretagne, SNCASO SO-94M Corse, Dassault MD-311 Flamant

Air Pictorial's Photo-Review - Fouga CM.170.R Magister, the Prototype Fairey Fulmar, Ambrosini GF.4 Rondone, the nose of the Lockheed F-94C Starfire in the rockets ready-to-fire position, Robinson Redwing II biplane, the nose of the DH Sea Venom, the vertical stabiliser of the bristol  175 Britannia airliner

Photographs (double-page) - Vickers-Armstrongs Supermarine Swift, the Republic XF-91 [Thunderceptor] experimental high-altitude interceptor with drop tanks, Lockheed WV-2 AEW [re-designated Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star], Avro Lancaster of No.404 Maritime Squadron RCAF

Readers' Letters

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

Cross-Channel Ferry Plans - Silver City

Aeroplane into Projectile

Naval Aviation - Training in Malta, G.C.; The Navy's Farnborough

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.