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Air Enthusiast Magazine Vol 3 #3 1972 September Tailless Tailpiece Tow by Turbop
Air Enthusiast Vol 3 # 3 1972 September Tailless Tailpiece
Published Monthly.
Contents:
110 AIRSCENE The monthly round-up of news and background to the news presented under section headings for Military Affairs, Civil Affairs, Aircraft and Industry and new Civil and Military Aircraft Contracts.
115 SUPPORTING A "SENSITIVE" WAR British aeroplanes and British personnel are engaged in a little-publicised "shooting war" in the Arabian Sultanate of Oman. This account describes the development of the Sultan of Oman's Air Force and indicates the scale of the operations in which it is now involved.
120 FEROCIOUS FELINE An account of the concept, development, design, construction and characteristics of the Anglo-French Jaguar close-support aircraft, including the impressions of one of the team of Jaguar test pilots and a new cutaway drawing.
129 A BRUSH WITH EXOTICISM Captain Eric Brown, RN, relates, in our "Viewed from the Cockpit" series, the hitherto untold story of the testing of the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet in Britain, and its relevance to a projected supersonic research aircraft designed at Farnborough by German engineers.
136 TAILLESS TAILPIECE Contributing an exclusive footnote to Captain Brown's account of flying the Me 163, Dr Alexander M Lippisch, its designer, traces the steps in its evolution back to the gliders developed on the Wasserkuppe in the late 'twenties.
139 TALKBACK Readers of AIR ENTHUSIAST offer comments of general interest.
140 FIGHTER A TO Z Continuing the AIR ENTHUSIAST encyclopaedia of the world's fighter aircraft, from the Avia S 199 to the Aviatik D VII.
142 TOW BY TURBOPROP An unusual modification programme in Switzerland has given new life to a batch of 20-year-old aircraft in the form of the C-3605 target tugs now operated by the Swiss Zielfliegerkorps.
144 A SHORT FAIREY TALE But for the advent of World War II, fleets of new British transport aeroplanes could have been operational by the early 'forties. H A Taylor describes the political and technical background to these designs, including the Short S.32, the Fairey F.C.1 and the unsuccessful competitive projects from Bristol, Folland and General Aircraft.
151 MODEL ENTHUSIAST Modelling comments, the latest kits reviewed and a page of colour profile drawings of the Henschel Hs 123.
154 PLANE FACTS Answers to readers' enquiries from the AIR ENTHUSIAST files: SFAN 11 L2; GGV-38; North American AJ-1 ; Heinkel P 1077 Julia.
156 AIRDATA FILE Technical data, photographs and general arrangement drawings for the ASA 360; Aeritalia-Aermacchi AM-3C; SIAI-Marchetti SF-260W Warrior; Antonov An-14M; Aero HC-4; Fairchild A-10A; McDonnell Douglas DC-10 Series 30; McDonnell Douglas F-15A Eagle and Northrop A-9A.
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