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September 2018 No.

Front Cover

The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum’s Avro Lancaster B.X FM213, flying in temporary Dambusters-themed livery. See feature beginning on page

60. MIKE REYNO-CWHM
    This page, main image: A quartet of English Electric Lightnings on display at Bruntingthorpe. See ‘News’. STEVE BUCKBY

24 RAF100 – Polish hero

Sean Feast profiles Eugeniusz

Nowakiewicz, a fearless Polish fighter

pilot who gave no quarter.

56 Treated like royalty

DHC Chipmunk WP903 has been flown

by three members of the Royal Family.

Darren Harbar reflects on its history.

60 Canadian Lancaster

Eric Dumigan pays tribute to ‘VeRA’, the

Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum’s

airworthy Avro Lancaster B.X.

70 Maple Leaf warriors

The RCAF’s 404 Squadron flew Bristol

Beaufighters in World War Two. Terry

Higgins details the unit’s exploits.

80 Oh, Vienna

Luigino Caliaro describes how the

Italians sent a message into the heart

of their Austro-Hungarian enemy by

‘bombing’ Vienna.

92 Fine art showcase

Chris Clifford reports from the annual

Guild of Aviation Artists exhibition

in London.

104 Star-spangled Spit res

American fighter pilots went to war in

Europe in Spitfires. Warren E Thompson

relates the experiences of the 31st

Fighter Group.