Air Pictorial scans
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Air Pictorial scans
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That is wonderful, I really appreciate the enourmous effort that has gone into this. I think that it great that we can have a digital record of these historic publications. Perhaps it is just me, but I was fascinated by the adverts in these magazines.
Great job and thank you.
Great job and thank you.
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September 1962........was my first purchase of "" Air Pic """!! . Bought it regularly for quite a few years. All stashed away in the loft......!!!
Thank you Discorde. !! How about going backwards into the 50s....??
Thank you Discorde. !! How about going backwards into the 50s....??
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Air Pic was a must for me in the late 60's/early 70s.
Reminds me that a teacher nicked my copy on the school coach to our sports fields in Surrey. Must have been 1968 or 69.
He wanted to know what I was reading (it was an article on the Cessna 152/172 if I recall).
Suddenly he took an interest in it and borrowed my copy - I never got it back!
Once the scans get to the late 60s I will have to look out for that one and finish reading the article!
Excellent piece of work Discorde - many thanx!
Reminds me that a teacher nicked my copy on the school coach to our sports fields in Surrey. Must have been 1968 or 69.
He wanted to know what I was reading (it was an article on the Cessna 152/172 if I recall).
Suddenly he took an interest in it and borrowed my copy - I never got it back!
Once the scans get to the late 60s I will have to look out for that one and finish reading the article!
Excellent piece of work Discorde - many thanx!
Gnome de PPRuNe
Cheers Discorde!
Rather taken with the image of the Beechcraft 120, a turboprop Queen Air with Turbomeca Bastans... The resemblance to the Swearingen Merlin II which a new fuselage sat on Queen Air wings (and was a progression from his Excalibur QA modification) is quite marked!
Edit: just looked this up in Rod Simpson's book, pic must be a mock-up as the prototype was never built.
Rather taken with the image of the Beechcraft 120, a turboprop Queen Air with Turbomeca Bastans... The resemblance to the Swearingen Merlin II which a new fuselage sat on Queen Air wings (and was a progression from his Excalibur QA modification) is quite marked!
Edit: just looked this up in Rod Simpson's book, pic must be a mock-up as the prototype was never built.
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Thanks, Discorde, Great job. I grew up on those magazines and what a wealth of information they contained. Funny to look at them now and how wrong many people in the industry were. All those VTOL dreams for one. Fascinating, and thanks again.
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