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1978 — Features: ACQR Scale Drawing Portfolio - Martin Seamaster, Cessna OE-2 Birddog, Northrop Snark, Cessna L-27A, Republic F-105 Thunderchief, Sikorsky Ilia Mouremetz D; Albatross B.I Series 23, Albatross B.I Series 22 (Knoller Wing); The Hawker Sea Fury; Greenham Common Air Tattoo; Strange WWII aircraft; USAF in Europe - today and tomorrow; RAF Mildenhall Open House; Diamond Jubilee Airfield; Tracking hurricanes in C-130 Hercules; Sopwith Z00 - a collection of scale drawings; Southend Air Museum; The Birth of Naval Aviation - the story of the first shipboard landing; RNAS Lee-on-Solent - visiting one of the last Royal Navy air bases; RNAS Yeovilton - an interesting display; Rolls-Royce Spitfire; Super Spad - little known attack aircraft from Douglas; Sweden's new Air Museum; Liberator Nose Art - pin ups from WWII; China's Warbirds - rare look into aviation in China after WWII; Blackbushe Air Festival - we visit an English Warbird mecca; Enter the Lynx - a new helicopter becomes operational; ACQR Scale Profiles - a selction of classic aircraft drawings; Genie named John - first operational use of the Genie atomic missile; Aircraft cutups - can you guess these mismatched airframes; Combat aircraft of the USN - special pictorial report; Maple Leaf Seafires - Canadian Navy Supermarine Spitfires; Forgotten Swingwing - does anyone remember the USN's F-111B?; America's Early Wings - photos from an early flier's album; Fleet Air ARM Museum Update - new exhibits at the FAA Museum in England; Harvard's 40th Anniversary!; How the USAF established an air safety program; Those weird and wild triplanes; The last Falcon - the last Falcon from the Curtiss stable; Bassingbourn Anglo-American Air Festival - a tribute to the 91st Bomb Group; Red Star over California - a Russian record flight of the 1930s; Forgotten Warbird Graveyard; Helicopter Rescue; Strangers in 'Port - unusual aircraft that visit an airfield; Biggen Hill Air Fair; Mustang Guardsmen - the P-51 Mustang helped form the modern Air National Guard; Boeing's Grasshopper - Nifty little observation type lost out to the L-19; Kingfisher Wreckovery; Lady Peace - the Ping Pong Special - V-1; Twilight for the Sikorsky Giants; 18 days of Hell - the brief combat history of the Belgian Air Force in WWII; Mission U-5 - Abort! - the discovery of a rare P-39 combat veteran in Australia; Typhoon! - deadly fighter-bomber of WWII from Hawker Aircraft Co.; Famous Alaskan Bush Pilots - these pioneers helped develop flying in the north; Mountain Air Force - Switzerland maintains a strong and interesting air force; Zerbe's Air Sedan - a flying oddity; Flying the F-82 in combat - the Twin Mustang is pitted against MiGs; Deuces Wild - swan song of the Convair F-102 Interceptor; Service on Sunday - flying a preacher in an SBD and almost meeting the Maker; Sea-going Gliders - USN experiments in amphibious gliders during WWII; Magnificent Men in their Flying Boats - early aerial developments with flying boats; Messerschmitt's Super-Secret P.1101 - this German aircraft helped USAF researchers in the 1950s; Roscoe Turner Special - the famed unlimited racer he flew; Hot Deck! - landing combat aircraft on aircraft carriers is a dangerous business as these photos prove; Japan's newsboy warrior - little-known Japanese biplane. Average wear. Minor lean to spine. Privately bound in blue buckram-covered boards with gilt lettering to backstrip and front board. A sound copy. Book