September 2010

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Right on ‘Q’
After years of work, the Lightning Preservation Group’s Quick Reaction Alert fighter hangar has opened at Bruntingthorpe. Hugh Trevor outlines this momentous occasion.

All the way
Eric Mannings charts Sgt Jack Lancaster’s incredible service career as a mechanic with 72 Squadron during the war.
Lysander Airborne
Dave O’Malley tells how the Vintage Wings of Canada team restored a World War Two ‘Lizzy’ back to flight status.

Get into this!
Ken Ellis reports from Newark’s annual grass-roots aviation celebration – ‘CockpitFest’.

Stratos Fear
The important role played by the B-47 Stratojet in Strategic Air Command during the ‘Cold War’ is described by Warren E Thompson.

Regulars
Take to the Skies
Find out where to get airborne in style with our indispensable warbird pleasure flight guide.

From the Workshop
In the first of two workshop features, Ken Ellis crosses the Solent to visit warbird specialists Airframe Assemblies. In the second helping, which starts on page 92, Scott A Thompson looks at the fabulous Westpac Restorations in Colorado.

Over the Trenches
FlyPast’s Steve Beebee visits the moving battlefields of the Somme in France.

Museum
Michael Kelly reports from a fascinating collection at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Glory Days
Frank A Law presents a portfolio showing war-weary bombers at the Langford Lodge ‘bone yard’ in Northern Ireland.

Airshow
Coverage of this year’s ‘Flying Legends’ show at Duxford, plus forthcoming UK dates.

FlyPost
Readers’ letters and comments.

‘Ops’ Board
Where to go and what to see.

Finals
An unusual aircraft themed display has opened in London – we close this month by looking at its focal point.

Boxed off bit?
Wings of the Eagles
A 32-page ‘pull out’ of special Luftwaffe features.

Nocturnal Shambles
Focke-Wulf Fw 190s got off to a dismal start in the night bombing role, as Chris Goss recounts.

Pirate Attack
Chris Goss describes the terrible Ju 88 strikes on Grantham and its munitions factory.

Chequered ‘Bird’
Pete West’s artwork profiles a Focke-Wulf Fw 190 from the Luftwaffe’s JG 1.

Dual Duel
Bill Norman describes a fateful tangle between RAF Typhoons and intruder Messerschmitt Me 210s.

Captured Eagle
After years of anonymity, the identity of a preserved Bf 109 is finally revealed.

Three Musketeers
A snapshot of three Luftwaffe fighter pilots led Chris Goss to examine their combat careers and their fates.

Forgotten Bomber
RAF night-fighters verses Luftwaffe bombers on a retaliation raid on London, by Chris Goss.
End of ‘Wings’

News
Spitfire arrives in Germany
Storch flies at Old Warden
Vulcan back in the air
Yale take-off
Messerschmitt Bf 109 for Chino
Black Widow roll-out

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