Aeromilitaria - Quarterly A4
Chukar D.2 ZD680 at Aberporth, being hosed down after flight (this Chukar was attached to Special Flight, RNPTA). (via Michael Draper)
Editor: Jim Halley and Phil Butler
Current issue: Winter (48pp)
Next issue due: March
Aeromilitaria is Air-Britain's Military Aviation Historical Quarterly, first published in 1975. It was established to dig deeper into the background of military aviation than was possible in commercial publication aimed at a more generalised readership. It provided detailed notes on, mainly, British and Commonwealth military types, providing data on the use and fates of each individual aircraft. These evolved into the Air-Britain series on Royal Air Force Aircraft, and also into the 'File' series of books.
As all RAF aircraft between J1 and XZ999 have been published in the series of registers listed under 'Military Books', Aeromilitaria now concentrates on background information emerging from, mainly, files at the Public Record Office and Ministry of Defence. The layout has been designed so that articles and tables can be extracted intact for filing in whatever way the reader finds most convenient.
Current editors are James J Halley and Phil Butler. The editorial address is 5 Walnut Tree Road, Shepperton, Middlesex, TW17 0RW.
The 48 page Winter 2011 edition includes articles on the following:
- Doves in the Belgian Congo - Part 1 - Leif Hellstrom
- Brewster B.239 in Finland - Phillippe Listemann and the late Eino Ritaranta
- RAF Sculthorpe: The Ju Jitsu Missions - Colin R Smith
- Feedback on Elgar and Vapour - Ron Henry
- Royal Canadian Air Force Winter Experimental Establishments - John Bradley
- Photo Miscellany
- Post-1950 Aircraft Specfications - Part 4 - Phil Butler
- Gloster Single Seat Meteors (Part 10)
- The Northrop Chuckar in Royal Navy Service - Michael Draper
- Crash Sites in the United Kinbgdom during World War Two 18Aug43 to 31Aug43
- Colour Gallery - Robert Cooper
- Also Feedback and Bookshelf
- Back Page feature Farnborough 1958
Crash Sites in the United Kingdom during World War Two lists in chronological order the aircraft, of whatever nationality, that are known to have crashed on land in the UK. It is hoped that readers may be able to add to the detail from local sources or memories of the event.
Feedback is devoted to reader's additions to items that have appeared in past issues and provides a valuable forum for information that might otherwise be lost.
Bookshelf covers recent publications on military and naval aviation, which are considered to be useful to our readers.
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