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Cover photos (main image): LPG Lightning F.3 XR713 in 56 Sqn markings appropriate

to 1965. Hugh Trevor. Inset (bottom left): A Gulf Air Airbus A330-200. AirTeamImages.

com/Steve Flint. Inset (bottom right): British Airways Concorde, G-BOAF, on display at

Aerospace Bristol. Adrian M Balch

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04 Headlines

06 Military News

10 Civil News

16 Preservation News

31 Flight Bag

54 Room with a View

68 Air Base Movements

70 Airport Movements

74 Register Review

FEATURES

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20 Liverpool Airport: On the Up

Liverpool Airport is working ‘Eight Days a Week’ to boost

passenger numbers, as Martyn Cartledge discovered.

26 German Fulcrums: Flying for Both

Sides – Part 2

Doug Gordon assesses how the West used the Russian

 ghter for training.

32 Aerospace Bristol: Honouring

Innovation

Bristol is a name synonymous with a large part of

Britain’s aviation history and now the story is being told

on one site, as Adrian M Balch outlines.

36 Career of a King Cobra

Air Cdre John Mitchell (ret’d),  ew more than 1,

hours on Lightnings. He talks with Dr Kevin Wright

about his experiences on this remarkable aircraft.

42 30 Years of Lightning Thunder

Enthusiasts delight in seeing two of the Lightning

Preservation Group’s jets thundering down the

Bruntingthorpe runway. Hugh Trevor details the work of

the organisation that pays tribute to this charismatic  ghter.

48 Gone But Not Forgotten

Aviation News charts the units that operated the amazing

English Electric Lightning  ghter in RAF service.

56 Gulf Air: Bouncing Back

Gulf Air is no longer the biggest carrier in the Middle

East, but can proudly claim to be one of the oldest in the

region. Jozef Mols investigates the airline’s evolution.

62 USAF E-3 Sentry: Eye in the Sky

Tom Kaminski pro les the heart of the USAF’s airpower

• Boeing’s E-3 Sentry.

78 Grumman’s Limousine of the Air

The Gulfstream I pioneered corporate  ying as it is

known today. Charles Woodley details its development

and career.

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