FLIGHT AND AIRCRAFT ENGINEER

(June 22^nd 1956)

The magazine published for the serious aero enthusiast and the official organ of the Royal Aero Club.  Packed with technical and specification data and well illustrated with photographs and drawings throughout.

Front cover:

Advert:  K.L.M. Have Specificed Rotol Propellers For Their Fleet Of Viscount Aircraft

In this issue:

Ideas And Applications  (Editorial)

From All Quarters (The Iroquois, AWA research facilities expansion, Service aircraft variants, International aerobatics, Polish airmen’s week, Plans for the Wessex, International light aircraft meeting, Valiant accident findings.  Includes a small profile outline drawing and small photograph of the Westland Wessex)

Officer Material – A Flying School Works To Produce The Complete G.D. Officer  (A two-page article will some lovely photographs of Vampire bombers and trainers)

Here And There  (Viscounts for Peru, Six hundred B-52s, Revolutionary rotor, Seamew crash inquest, Tyres for the rough, Friends from Australia plus a small photograph of a Stinson Voyager with Goodyear low-pressure Terra-Tyres)

Flying The 707 – A British Pilot Tries Boeing’s Jet Transport:  Part 2  (An excellent second part of an account of a flight to Seattle by a senior BOAC Stratocruiser captain to sample the prototype 707.  This four page article describes in detail the flight and is supplemented by an aerial photograph of the aircraft on the ground, a photograph of the nose section and detail photographs of the aileron and spoiler configuration in the wing and the main landing gear)

Spritely Valiants  (A short description of the fitting of De Havilland Super Sprite ATO rocket motors to a Vickers-Armstrongs Valiant.  Includes a photograph of the unit fitted to an aircraft and a take-off using these liquid propellant rockets)

Smootly Turbulent – Reflections On The Recent British Tour Of The Druine Ultra-Light  (A 1½ page article with a lovely photograph of the aircraft in flight)

Those American Mergers

Aircraft Intelligence  (News from France, USA and Poland.  Also includes photos of a Bristol Freighter Mk. 31 of the Iraqi Air Force and the Kaman HOK-1 helicopter with the new “bear-paw” landing gear and 3-view artist’s detailed drawings of the Northrop SM-62 Snark)

“Flap-Blown” D.H. Sea Venom – Successful Carrier Trials With A Mk. 21 (A one-page illustrated article)

Cranfield Shows Its Work  (A one-page photo-montage of the recent open days)

Full Cry – Hunters At The Gallop  (An excellent double-page photo-montage with descriptive text illustrating Hunter F.4s and F.6s together with a Dutch Air Force F.4)

A.S.T.’s Quarter Century – A “University Of The Air” And An Aircraft Factory  (An excellent 4½ page article describing the work of the Hawker Siddeley Group’s Air Service Training Limited.  Includes photographs of the Hiller 12B Helicopter, a line-up of the aircraft in 1931, a line-up of today’s aircraft, an early flight simulator and a Chipmunk)

The Industry  (Pressure clothing under test, Bristol tanks: continental licences, Versatile radar simulator, In brief)

Civil Aviation  (Moscow-London moves?, Bierut-London inauguration, Flight 52 out of Midway, Aer Lingus’s 20^th birthday, Fog dispersal in the Commons, Brevities.  Includes photographs of a Northrop YC-125A Raider and a mock-up of the DC-8’s flight deck)

From The Clubs  (Includes a small photo of the Falco F.8)

Independent Enterprise – Otters And A Beaver In USA And Canada  (Includes two photographs of Otters in flight)

Service Aviation – Royal Air Force And Fleet Air Arm News  (Manby’s double occasion, Armament at Fassberg, Exercise Hour Glass, RAF appointments, Fleet Air Arm appointments)

plus more including adverts for the Blackburn Beverley and Universal, the Lockheed Super Constellation, RFD Universal Liferafts, Napier – Eland, Oryx, Gazelle, the Smiths S.e.P.2 Auto-pilot, the Fairey Gannet, the DH Spectre, Martin-Baker, the Jet Provost, Marconi Airport and Aircraft Radio Systems, Avro Aircraft Limited and the Bristol Sycamore

The cover of this magazine displays a few knocks and bumps to the cover page edges and with a little minor damage around the staples (see photograph).  The staples are rusty but sound and continue to hold all the pages securely.  All pages are present, free from tears and creases and other signs of significant damage other than some age-related discolouration to the page edges typical on newsprint from this era and some doodling around the national marking on the helicopter on the back cover page (see last photograph above).