IAOPA Magazine

[Stargazer]

Wasn't quite sure whether this belonged in the "Websites" or "Bookshelf" section, but I elected to choose the latter because the links I'm about to share pertain to a publication, despite the fact excerpts of it are available online.

In the Miles Boxcar thread, Matthew Long (a.k.a. cluttonfred) pointed me to the excellent IOPA Europe magazine General Aviation and so I decided to go and have a look at whatever articles are available online for download from previous issues.

There's a lot more there than I thought initially... Anywhere, here is a selection of especially valuable resources which you can download for free:


DE HAVILLAND

• Before the Moth? (De Havilland DH.51, DH.53...)
• The Moth: Where club flying began (De Havilland Moth family)
• Back to Basics (De Havilland Tiger Moth)
• Flying the Tiger – then and now (De Havilland Tiger Moth)
• 'A pair of Tiger Moths, strapped together...' (De Havilland Dragon Rapide)
• The monoplane Moth (De Havilland DH.94 Moth Minor)
• Better than the Tiger? (De Havilland DH.60 G111 Moth Major)
• Chippy earns its pension (De Havilland DHC-1 Chipmunk)

OTHER VINTAGE BRITISH AIRCRAFT

• Airspeed Oxford
• The Noah’s Ark of Austers
• One that nearly made it (Auster J5F Aiglet Trainer)
• Can the Tutor Teach? (Avro Tutor)
• Avro Avian
• Anson in later life (Avro Anson)
• Tipsy Trainer (Fairey Tipsy)
• First Lady of flight (Hawker Hurricane)
• M.11 Miles Whitney Straight: Casualty of war
• Van Ordinaire (Miles M.57 Aerovan, M.68 Boxcar, M.71 Merchantman)
• Why the Elf fell short (Parnall Elf)
• More glue please, Mr Percival (Percival Proctor)
• A turn in the training tide - Percival Provost
• Being Biggles (Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2c replica)
• The first century at Brooklands

VINTAGE EUROPEAN AIRCRAFT

• Stampe SV4: Better than a Moth?
• The Czech Chipmunk (Zlin Trener 6)

VINTAGE AMERICAN AIRCRAFT

• Hello, sailor (Piper Cub floatplane)
• Life's a Beech (Beechcraft 18)
• Look, no feet (ERCO Ercoupe)
• The Fairchild F24 Argus
• Sailing through the air (Consolidated Catalina)
• ‘Get us a Liberator’ (Consolidated Liberator)
• Why I love the Luscombe (Luscombe 8 Silvaire)

POSTWAR U.S. AIRCRAFT

• Apache on steroids (Piper Apache 'Geronimo' conversion)
• Six of the best (Piper Saratoga II HP)
• Could have been a contender (Thorp T-211)
• The Cessna that (almost) never was (Cessna 620)
• 40 years of Cessna Citation
• Magic Mustang swallows the Atlantic (Cessna Citation Mustang)
• My personal airliner (Mooney Ovation 2GX)

OTHER POSTWAR AIRCRAFT

• Morane-Saulnier Paris: The very first Very Light Jet
• Big boy's toy (Robin DR500 President)
• How the EcoFlyer adds muscle (Robin EcoFlyer)
• The light fantastic (Aero AT-3)
• Monsun season (Bölkow 209 Monsun)
• Flying the Plastic Duck (Diamond DA 42 Twin Star)
• Frati's racy Italian (SIAI Marchetti SF 260)
• Got a 38-metre runway? (Technoavia SMG-92 Turbine Finist)
• Locked into a flat spin (Tipsy Nipper)
• Small is beautiful (Tipsy Nipper)
• Alpi Aviation Pioneer 300 Hawk: Small, but beautifully put together
• Twin safety on single money (Tecnam P2006T)
• Tecnam P2002JF: Yesterday, meet tomorrow
• Flying Australia’s ‘ute’ (Gippsland Airvan)
• Victa Airtourer: Down Underpowered (Victa Airtourer)
• Captain Concorde (BAC/Aerospatiale Concorde, etc.)

ULTRALIGHT HELICOPTERS

• London to Cape Town in an R44 (Robinson R44)
• Robinson R66 certificated (some company history and more)
• First Robinson R66 in the UK
• Never say never (Robinson R66)
• Here's one I made earlier (Exec 162F)

MILITARY JETS

• Gnational Treasures (Folland Gnat)
• Vulcan test pilot (Pilot profile: Tony Blackman)
• Harrier's heyday (Pilot profile: Duncan Simpson)
• A PPL flies with the Red Arrows (BAe Hawk)
• Hooray — we're off to Afghanistan (Fairchild A-10A 'Warthog' Thunderbolt II)
• ‘John, we go ride’ (Mikoyan MiG-29)

OTHERS

• It’ll never get off the ground… (replica builders)
• The Noble purpose (Richard Noble and his creations)

 

[AeroFranz]

Thanks for all the work collecting the links - a real time saver!

 

[Stargazer]

Thanks for all the work collecting the links - a real time saver!

You're welcome. I have now reorganized the above list for even quicker reference. Hope this helps!!

 

[Jemiba]

Just can second AeroFranz: Many thanks for this great effort ! Those articles are
really a great read.

 

[cluttonfred]

Great initiative, Stéphane. I had planned to go through those back issues myself, now I don't have to, thanks!