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18 Swiss Hunters 84 Flying the Provost 90 Korean emergency

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April 2018 No.

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Handley Page Victor K.2 XM715 ‘Teasin’ Tina’ is maintained in taxiable condition at Bruntingthorpe in Leicestershire. http://www.victorxm715.co.uk DARREN HARBAR

This page, main image: Stu Goldspink arriving at Hawker Restorations’ facility in Suffolk at the controls of Hurricane IIB ‘BE505’. See ‘News’, page 10.

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18 Swiss Hunters

Peter Lewis explains why a distinctively

painted Hawker Hunter has won fame

among a community in Switzerland.

84 Flying the Provost

Darren Harbar profiles the Shuttleworth

Collection’s Percival Provost T.1, a

greatly admired post-war trainer.

90 Korean emergency

Thomas McKelvey Cleaver describes a

traumatic Korean War rescue mission

• one that inspired James Michener’s
  bestselling novel ‘The Bridges at Toko-
  Ri’.

News

• Two-seat Hurricane conversion


• Spitfire delivered to Kent


• ’Memphis Belle’ nears completion


• Alpha Jets bow out


• Mustang leaves UK


• Hunters for German museum