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Volume 1 No. 10 - January 1942
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Size 276 x 220mm
pages plus full coloured cover

Cover: A Maurice Conly painting a Harvard preparing for a night flight

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Volume 1 No. 11 - February 1942
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Size 276 x 220mm
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Cover: A Maurice Conly painting of a P39 Airacobra in RAF markings
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Volume 1 No. 12 - March 1942
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Size 276 x 220mm
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Cover: A Maurice Conly painting of a bomber crew in their cockpit

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Volume 2 No. 1 - April - May 1942
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Size 197 x 140mm
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Cover: A Maurice Conly painting of RNZAF North American Harvards in formation
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This was the first issue in the smaller 'digest' size, and it saw the introduction of many new regular features like Egbert The Erk, Wendy The WAAF by W2126 and Super Charge, and works by 'Nimbo Stratus' and 'Gropes'

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"Contact's" Point of View Editorial Opinion
Attention Editorial Opinion
The Old And The New Feature
Two Blokes Feature
New Planes Feature
Photographic Supplement Feature
Air Force Relations Feature
Bennetts Band of Busmen Feature
Diary of a WAAF Feature by W2126
Passing Panorama News
Compact News
A.T.C. Notes News
ANZAC Demonstration Humour
Stand Easy Humour
ANZAC Day Short Story
Hades To Heaven Short Story
High Flight Poem by Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee Jr.

 

Volume 2 No. 2- June 1942
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Size 197 x 140mm
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Cover: A Maurice Conly painting of an Air Gunner in his RAF bomber

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Volume 2 No. 3- July 1942
Price 1/-
Size 197 x 140mm
84 pages plus full coloured cover

Cover: A Maurice Conly painting of New Zealand Airmen arm-in-arm with an
American bomber pilot, and his (stylised) B17
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Editorial
Passing Panorama
Bomber Pilot Extracts from a letter from a "well known New Zealand athlete" who was a member of Bomber Command - talking about missions over France and Germany, and glimpsing Winston Churchill, etc.
The Real Difference Joke
Honours For MacArthur A new dish in a New York restaurant is named after General MacArthur
They Fly By Night Night Flying Practice in Wellington bombers by "B.L.", an ex-Sgt Gunner of No 75 (NZ) Sqn
They Also Serve A tribute to the Ground Staff of the RNZAF, by Ropata Kirimuwutu
Air Power And New Zealand Highlights from Air Commodore R.V. Goddard's recent broadcast address to NZ
Aerial Leviathan Snippet about a new 75 seat airliner being built in the USA (probably the Lockheed Constellation?)
Brass Buttons Go Snippet about battledress buttons in the UK now made of plastic rather than brass
Is It Woff or Waff? By Egbert the Erk - worrying about how to pronounce WAAF
Night Fighter Poem (by M.D. Webster)
And They Thought It Impossible About the Wright Bro's
America Snippet quoting Gilbert Anstruther in "Man" about America's good and bad points
The Lives of a Filipino Pilot Snippet of an interview with a Philipino pilot now in Australia who said he'd used six of his nine lives defending his defeated country, but he would return, as MacArthur had decreed
The War of Ideas Article about Chesterton's 'Ballad of the White Horse'
What Language Is This, Huh? Snippet about the Germans being baffled in World War One by two Choctaw Indians who sent messages in their own language - not code - and the Germans couldn't understand or crack the messages
Indoor Flying Article and the Link Trainer by A.P. Luscombe Whyte
Countries In The News - India A monthly review of different counties, their current political state, etc, by 'The Historian'
Great New Zealand Athletes No 1 - Joe Scott, Champion Walker, by Wallie Ingram
Britain's Aerial Might A quote from Sir Archibald Sinclair on how mighty the Stirling, Halifax, Manchester and Lancaster were, and that they were coming into their own
Photos - includes pilots and Spitfires from 485 (NZ) Squadron, a Westland Whirlwind fighter, and Bill Jordan, NZ High Commissioner to Britain
Portrait by Conly - Pencil portrait of General Douglas MacArthur
Meteorology Simplified Part II - Winds, by 'Nimbo Stratus' - technical article on wind types
Netherlands Airmen Snippet about Dutch airmen who'd escaped to Britain and were now flying their Fokker T8W floatplanes in RAF Coastal Command against German U-boats and doing well
You Write Letters to Contact about Flying Wings, answered in the below article
Techniques and Evolution of Tailless Aircraft by the Editor
Wendy The WAAF by W2126. Wendy goes on leave with a pocketful of pay but finds shopping for clothing isn't easy
Canadian Wins GM The George Medal award to Sgt Thomas B. Miller, RCAF
The Night Bomber
Compact - The National Magazine of the WAAF
Diary of a WAAF
Part V by W2126
Hymn For the RAF Poem (By Patience Strong)
Spread The Jam...And Help The ATC
Japanese Aircraft
- 3-view recognition - Aichi AI104 and Kawasaki Kawa 95

Air Training Corps in England

 
Volume 2 No. 4 - August 1942
Price 1/-
Size 197 x 140mm
pages plus full coloured cover

Cover: A Maurice Conly painting of a Fleet Air Arm fighter taking off from a Carrier

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Volume 2 No. 5- September - October 1942
Price 1/-
Size 197 x 140mm
pages plus full coloured cover

Cover: A Maurice Conly painting of a P40E Kittyhawk fighter in an RNZAF workshop
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A Decorative Interpretation of the Decompression Chamber - by well known NZ artist Nancy Adkin Ritchie
Editorial
Passing Panorama
- includes 'Darts Over Berlin'; 'Norwegian Fishing Story'; 'American Pilots'; "Arawa Guerilla'; 'The Fifth Glass'; 'Defiant Farmers'; 'Belgian Air Force'; 'Snake in the Siren'; 'Farm "Battle" Dress';
CANADA: New Zealand Pilot Honoured - Plaque Presented to Honour Student Pilot-Officer Ernest Holdaway
Identity Wanted - two photos of Airmen that Contact wanted to identify after they'd got mixed up in mail home
Tissandier, Sival and Croce Spinelli - early artists impression of these pioneers in a balloon at 29,000 feet in 1875. It was the first time oxygen was used in flight, but too late, and only Tissandier survived the flight
Aviation Medicine Part II - by Caduceus - about the use of oxygen and air pressure on the body
Falling Fortress: Last Voice From Corregidor - the last Allied radio transmission heard as the Japs took over
Snippet - A statement by General de Gaulle
On Their Selection: Or How I Was Chosen - by "Egbert The Erk". Egbert's story of how he joined the RNZAF
On Wings of Valour - Poem, anon
Snippet - New Soviet automatic rifle
Cartoon - Observer Corps
Take It - Or Leave It: The Musings of a Thirsty Soul - about the question of prohibition
Fighter Pilot Artist - a snippet about a pilot in a West Riding of Yorkshire Squadron of Fighter Command who's also an artist and does portraits of his fellow squadron members
Private of General? - Insignia of Rank in the US Army Air Force - article and pictures of rank insignia
Attention!!! Don't Talk - article about careless talk
Snippet - a statement by Viscount Trenchard of the still possible airborne invasion of England
Aircraft Spotting - aircraft recognition chart
A Day In The Life of a Bomber Pilot Part II - 13-page photo-article
Meteorology Simplified Part IV - Clouds
Banana or Baloney Oil - a report of an article published in a British aeronautical magazine about New Zealand's Banana crop - which was totally fictitious!
Singapore - The Evacuation - article by R.T. (who was a member of the New Zealand Fighter Squadron that fought in Singapore
He Wanted To Fly - Snippet about a man who had missed out on flying duties, but one day got permission to act as an extra gunner on a bomber, and on the raid over Germany was killed
Countries In The News - A Monthly Review by The Historian: The Middle East (Continued)
Tales of the Oldtimer - EVENTFUL DAY- As related to Ropata Kirimuwutu - the second in the series of true stories from the Great War of a "well known" RNZAF Officer. I do not know who this officer was, but he'd served in the Royal Naval Air Service on the island of Mudros in 1917. He tells of a day the Captain visited, and in their flying display they accidentally burned the station's wheat crop, then he crashed into the cable of an observer balloon and nearly died. The Australian observers had to parachute to safety. This appeared later in Flights and Fancies by AR Grimwood (Kirimuwutu).
Eagle Squadron - Review of the then-new US film "Eagle Squadron" about Americans in the RAF
Compact - National Magazine of the WAAF - Careless Talk: A Further Episode in the Adventures of Wendy The WAAF by W.2126
WAAF Specialists - Girls Prove Their Worth at Instrument Repair - by Aileron, article about girls in specialised Air Force jobs
Great New Zealand Athletes No. 3 - George Smith - article by W.F. Ingram
Silent Homage - Snippet about the banning of laying wreaths in Germany for troops killed on the Eastern Front
Armament Production - New Zealand Makes "Machine Gun" Carriers - article with photos
Air Training Corps - news from the ATC regions (this time Napier and Gisborne)
Back Page - Poster for the new film Eagle Squadron

Volume 2 No. 6 - November 1942
Price 1/-
Size 197 x 140mm
pages plus full coloured cover

Cover: A Maurice Conly painting of a WAAF in this 'Special WAAF Number'

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Volume 3 No. 1 - December 1942
Price 1/-
Size 197 x 140mm
84 pages plus full coloured cover

Cover: A Maurice Conly painting of streams of aircraft and Allied flags with the slogan "Lift Up Your Hearts"
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Knights of the Air photo of three P40 pilots in front of a Kittyhawk
Editorial
Aviation Medicine Part IV - Medical Officer and Airman
by Caduceus
Fighter Pilot Poem by William Kean Seymour
Cartoon
Knights Of The Air
Article with photos and even semi-coloured fold out on the P40 pilots
The Sky Is Safe Today...But What Of Tomorrow Photo-article on nurturing pilots through the Air Training Corp. This includes an excellent photo of Cambridge's ace Bill Wells visiting ATC cadets
Off The Record - The Unofficial History of the Royal New Zealand Air Force Humorous snippets from round the stations, including 'Nice Work'; 'Where Ignorance Is Bliss'; ' Discipline!'; 'Novelty'; 'Unrehearsed'; and 'The Height of Hospitality'
Xmas Day In The Dope Shop - Being a strongly flavoured story of the Restive Season in the tradition of Charles ("Butch") Dickens - by Egbert the Erk
ATTENTION!! Peace... And What? article by Thirty-Niner
My Country Poem by Florence McKenzie Smart
Xmas Stars Poem by W.1848
We've Done Our Hitch in Hell Poem contributed by an American serviceman in the Pacific war zone
Passing Panorama News items including "First Flight In England'; 'Night Fighter Has Two Bites'; 'Dead Serious'; 'New Zealand C.A.S. at Guadalcanar' [sic]; 'Honour To Maori Race'; 'RNZAF In The Pacific'' (rugby teams);
Countries in the News - A Monthly Review by the Historian: The Far East - The White Man's Burden Feature article
Cartoon 'Gatecrasher'
Britain's Little Ships
article by A P Luscombe Whyte
Tales of the Old Timer - The Missing Code Book As related to Ropata Kirimuwutu - the third in the series of true stories from the Great War of a "well known" RNZAF Officer. See Sept-Oct 42 for more. This was later republished in Flights and Fancies
Cartoon
Compact - National Magazine of the WAAF
Wendy The WAAF Gets A New Bere
t by W.2126
Her War Effort by W.1848
Moonlight Picnics - A Few Hints From Wendy The WAAF by W.1848
Cartoon
Diary of a WAAF Part VII
by W.2126
Snippet Flt Lt Robert Spurdle RNZAF had shot down German ace Horst Benno Kruger
Star Recognition Feature article by 'Rigel Von Betelgeuse' about astronomy for navigation
Great New Zealand Athletes No. 5 - Jack Lovelock Sporting article by W.F. Ingram
Personal Notices Marriages and Engagements
Air Training Corps
news from the ATC regions (this time includes UK, Dunedin, Christchurch, Timaru and The Observer)

 

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