One crater, a very long night
How a bomber built for Moscow ended up putting a hole in a runway in the South Atlantic, and why the tanker plan was the real weapon.
Cover story
The last loud thing in a British sky
We write about Type 698 the way enthusiasts talk about it: engines first, politics second, and always with one eye on the airframes that are still on the grass.
XH558 at Duxford, 2012. Photograph: John5199, CC BY 2.0.
In this issue
Four pieces we would hand a new reader
Journal
A wing that refused a tailplane
Avro did not pick a delta to look fashionable at Farnborough. It picked a delta because height, fuel and four buried engines needed a single thought of a wing. We walk through that argument without pretending we sat in the Woodford drawing office.