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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