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Online Catalogue > Magazines > Back Issues > FlyPast > 2009 > FlyPast March 2009

Flypast - March 2009Flypast - March 2009

Contents

Front Cover
Tony Ritzman flying the Fantasy of Flight Martin Marauder N4297J on one of its rare excursions – the only airworthy B-26 in the world.

News
Stranraer recovered in Canada
Duxford’s ‘secret’ Spitfires
B-17 joins Mighty Eighth museum
Hampden damaged by heavy snow
War museum for Libya
Spitfire nears flight in New Zealand

News on other pages

Britannia settles into its new home

Hethel’s tribute to the 389th Bomb Group set to expand

Aero Trader’s A-20 Havoc restoration and P-51 ‘factory’

Features
Get that Fighter!
An at-times-controversial survival guide for Bomber Command gunners from Ken Wright.

Forty-Four’s Debutantes
The first operations carried out by the Avro Lancaster.

Scourge of the ‘Doodlebugs’
Graham Berry pays tribute to family member Sqn Ldr Joe Berry, record-breaking V-1 ‘killer’.

Ordained to Fly
Continuing our mini-series on the late John D R Rawlings, based on his exceptional diary.

Return of the ‘Whispering Giant’
Britannia ‘Charlie-Fox’ has returned for a new life on display outside the iconic terminal building at Liverpool Airport.

Regulars
What’s New
A book bonanza – recent titles reviewed.

Museums - Hethel
Ken Ellis visits the home of the ‘Green Dragons’.

Roundels File
Fighter Command’s special markings designed to avoid ‘Friendly Fire’.

FlyPost
Readers’ letters and comments.

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

Glory Days
Croydon ‘Airbuses’, celebrating the 75th anniversary of the ‘wide-body’ Short L.17s.

From the Workshop
Jarrod Cotter visits B-25 Mitchell maestros Aero Trader.

Finals
Duxford’s Vickers Viscount ‘Whisky Fox’.

In Focus
B-26 Marauder special features

‘Double Trouble’
Youthful bravado resulted in the prophetic naming of a B-26. Alan Crouchman explains.

‘Hot Ship’ Survivors
The world’s population of B-26s and where to see them.

Post-War ‘Widows’
Portfolio of peacetime Martin ‘Murderers’.

Happy 20th!
On his birthday, Marauder gunner Ron Eaton found himself fighting for his life. Michael Napier relates his tale.

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