Aeroplane Monthly 1979-12
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The USAF photo by TOM ROBERTS captures a civil-registered Boeing B-17 during aerial fire-fighting work on behalf of the US Forestry Service. No fewer than 23 B-17s were on the American civil register in 1978, many of which have provided valuable service as water bombers over the past decade.
Cessna OE-1 of 407 Escuadrilla de Enlace, Spanish Air Force, photographed over the Guadalquivir River on June 15, 1978.
The picture, taken by a Flight photographer, shows a Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer C.C.2 of 21 Squadron, RAF, during supply-dropping exercises at the HQ of the School of Land/Air Warfare, Old Sarum, in July 1950.
ERIC S. FAVELLE’S photograph depicts Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation CA-16 Wirraway A20-653/VH-BFF over Port Phillip Bay, South Victoria, Australia, on December 5, 1976.
"Where would you like him, in the front or the back?"
The Granger Archaeopteryx of 1930, now flying from Old Warden.