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Cover photos (main image): An RAF Lightning F.6. Key Collection. Inset (top): Artwork of

an 11 Sqn Lightning F.6. Squadron Prints. Inset (bottom left): European Air Transport Airbus

A300-600R(F) D-AEAT in the colours of DHL. AirTeamImages.com/Rudi Boigelot

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04 Headlines

06 Civil News

11 Military News

16 Preservation News

62 Viewing Area Guide

65 Flight Bag

72 Airport Movements

76 Register Review

FEATURES

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20 Shorts 330 & 360: The Flying

‘Sheds’

Charles Woodley tells the story of the Shorts 330/

family of regional airliners.

26 Firefi ghting USAF Hercules:

Salvation from Above

Dr Kevin Wright visited the 146th Airlift Wing of the

California Air National Guard to  nd out about its

airborne  re ghting mission.

LIGHTNING SPECIAL

32 Desert Lightning: The English

Electric Fighter in Saudi Arabia

Hugh Trevor chronicles Lightning operations in the

Royal Saudi Air Force and speaks to the British crews

who  ew and serviced the jets in the desert.

42 Learning to Fly the Lightning

Ian Black recalls what it was like to learn to  y and

operate the Lightning from his time on the LTF

conversion course.

50 TALES FROM THE LOGBOOK

The Last Lightning Show

RAF Binbrook – August 22, 1987

Brian Hodgson recalls an historic event that was a

 tting farewell to the charismatic Lightning, despite rain

and low cloud.

56 Cardiff Airport: Rising Fortunes

Cardiff Airport is booming after a spell in the doldrums.

Geoff Jones explains what’s driving the turnaround.

66 Airbus A300 – First of the Family

Charles Kennedy examines the highs and lows of the

game-changing Airbus A300.

79 82nd Fighter Group’s ‘Fork-tailed

Devils’

Two former 82nd Fighter Group P-38 Lightning  ghter

pilots graphically recall memorable missions over North

Africa and Italy. Warren Thompson reports.

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