Important Announcement

Guideline Publications has changed its distribution company to Seymour Ltd, this will not affect you, our readers, or the supply and availability of our titles. This move will benefit us all in the short, medium and longer term as Seymour are a major and well respected distributor in both the UK and Overseas. With new editors, designers, contributors, better paper stock and printing quality our titles have seen exceptional growth over the past year. This growth will be sustained and improved with the change of distribution to Seymour.

Régis Auckland, Chairman of Guideline Publications Ltd.

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August Issue (Vol 32 Issue 06) Briefing Quiz Answers

Answers:

1:The English Electric Lightning served with the RAF for over 25 years, but how many different operators of the Lightning have there been?

1: Four... The Royal Air Force, Kuwaiti Air Force, Royal Saudi Air Force, and South African civilian operator Thunder City.

2: What was the last piston engine fighter ordered into production by the United States Air Force?

2: The P-82 Twin Mustang.

3: What is the largest and heaviest aircraft to have landed and taken off from an aircraft carrier?

3: A Lockheed KC-130F landed and took off from the USS Forrestal on 30th October 1963. Altogether, the crew successfully negotiated 29 touch-and-go landings, 21 unarrested full-stop landings, and 21 unassisted takeoffs at gross weights of 85,000 pounds up to 121,000 pounds. At 85,000 pounds, the KC-130F came to a complete stop within 267 feet, about twice the aircraft's wing span! The Navy was delighted to discover that even with a maximum payload, the plane used only 745 feet for takeoff and 460 feet for landing roll. The landings were also performed 500 miles out to see of the Boston coast in moderate seas!

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