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Included in this issue are articles about the final collapse of the Handley Page company, a look at the work of Antoine Filippi, inventor of the “Cyrnos” rotating wing in 1906, a survey of Iran’s continued use of the McDonnell Douglas F-4D Phantom, the Bell P-39 Airacobra fighter of World War Two under the Red Star, Armstrong Whitworth’s AW.58 supersonic research projects, Ryan B.1 Broughams in Australia, the Tupolev Tu-104A jetliner’s career in Czechoslovakian service, Sweden’s use of the de Havilland Venom, and the little-known story of how Qantas Empire Airways’ flying-boat service was utilised to spy on Japanese encroachment on Portuguese Timor.