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CONTENTS

Main image: Star ghters Aerospace TF-104G N992SF in  ight. Luigino Caliaro.

Inset (top): Buffalo Airways C-46 C-FAVO. Tony Storck. Inset (middle): Pan Am DC-

N62NA landing at Las Vegas. R Verschuur - Guy Van Herbruggen Collection. Inset (bottom):

VX-30 S-3B Viking 159746. Scott Dworkin

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04 Headlines

06 Civil News

10 Military News

16 Preservation News

36 Airshow News

37 Aviation Events Calendar

40 Flightbag

56 Viewing Area Guide

63 Air Mail

68 Airport Movements

72 Air Base Movements

74 Register Review

FEATURES

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14 Exercise Cobra Warrior

Editor Dino Carrara reports from RAF Coningsby on a

groundbreaking deployment of Luftwaffe EF2000s.

18 American Air Museum Reopens

Assistant Editor James Ronayne visits the redeveloped

American Air Museum at IWM Duxford.

20 VX-30 Bloodhounds – Diversity in

Test

Scott Dworkin details the wide-ranging and important

work of one of the US Navy’s premier test squadrons.

30 Ice Pilots – Buffalo Airways

Buffalo Airways’  eet of classic propliners provides a vital

lifeline to some of Canada’s most remote settlements.

Ken Cothliff reports from ‘North of 60’.

42 Starfi ghters Aerospace – Second

Life for F-104s

Luigino Caliaro reports on the growing  eet of Lockheed

F-104s  own by Star ghters Aerospace in a variety of

roles.

50 Salzburg Airport W.A. Mozart –

Gateway to the Alps

James Ronayne visits Austria’s second-busiest airport.

58 National Treasure – B -17G

Sentimental Journey Brings History

to Life

Joe Copalman tells the story of a Flying Fortress that is

regularly seen on the North American airshow circuit.

64 Pan Am DC-10s – A Curious Tale

Charles Kennedy looks back at the service of the

McDonnell Douglas DC-10 as part of the Pan Am  eet.

77 TALES FROM THE LOGBOOK

Cold War Flashback – May 1988

Peter R Foster describes the huge variety of military

aircraft seen at air bases in the East of England in an

average month during the 1980s’ period of the Cold War.

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