Aircraft Illustrated

FREE SUPPLEMENT! - AIRSHOWS 2009
Free inside this issue is our exclusive Airshows 2009 supplement, including a complete calendar of major worldwide air events, UK show previews and a look back at the world’s first airshow 100 years ago!

Military
RAF front-line focus - Can the UK wait for the A400M? - VH-71 programme in turmoil - Aero India news

Civil
Airline industry counts cost of fatal accidents • Global slump hits home • 787 order cuts • Embraer plans civil C-390

Preservation
CAF in ownership disputes • Second Flug Werk FW190 airborne • Crunch time for Vulcan • National Museum of the USAF to expand

FEATURES

Concorde: the end...
Did supersonic travel have to come to an end in 2003? With the help of former Concorde pilots, Aircraft investigates

Typhoon over Austria
The Austrian AF’s introduction of the Eurofighter Typhoon – PLUS! Exclusive air-to-air photography by Katsuhiko Tokunaga

Airshow Legends: Air Tattoo
PART ONE: Our revealing history of the world’s greatest military airshow starts with its small beginnings at North Weald

WIN! RIAT 2009 TICKETS
Breitling precision
Air-to-air with the Breitling Jet Team, the world’s largest civilian jet display team

So you want to be a display pilot?
The essentials for the would-be airshow performer

The Aircraft Defence Review
PART TWO: Jon Lake’s personal prescription for what should be done to ensure the best future for the UK’s air arms

Serving Alaska
How Alaska Airlines thinks it can ride out the current airline storm – PLUS! Archive shots from the carrier’s long history

Antei hero
The lengthy service career of the mighty Antonov An-22 Antei continues

Big in Japan
Tokyo’s Narita Airport – a sometimes turbulent past and a dynamic future

‘Varks’ in the UK
Pilots and unit commanders remember the USAF’s F-111 operations from Upper Heyford and Lakenheath

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