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AIR PICTORIAL & AIR RESERVE GAZETTE

Volume XVIII No. 2

February 1956

Contents:

Front cover - The Martin Mariner

See photographs

The main aircraft featured in this issue are:

Junkers Ju-88 (cont): Night Fighters and Ground Attack Version - 4-page article (to be continued), very well illustrated with photographs, diagrams and general outline profiles

Commonwealth Military Serials 2: Canada

GlosterJavelin F(AW) Mk. I - Full-page photo

McDonnell RF-101A [Voodoo] - Large photo

De Havilland D.H. 110 [Sea Vixen] - Large photo

US Navy North American T-28C [Trojan] - Large photo

Edgar Percival P.9, Antonov An-2, Somers-Kendall SK-I & Handley Page H.P.34 Hare - Photograph, 3-view silhouettes and summary details

Progress in Glider Training - 1-page article

Fairey Ferret - Photo and 1:72 scale plan

RCAF Lockheed P2V-7 Neptune - Large photo

Gloster Javelin F.(AW) Mk. I - Large Photo

US Navy R4Y-I [Samaritan] - Large photo

US Fish and Wildlife Service Grumman Goose - Large photo

Prototype Douglas DC-7C Seven Seas - Large photo

Convair modified search-and-rescue Douglas SC-54D - Large photo

Second Prototype McDonnell XV-I convertiplane - ¼-page photo

plus more including Air Pictorial's Photo-Review and Photos by Request features.

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 and are of the actual item for sale.

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.