IN THE DECEMBER ISSUE (on sale November 13, 2008)

COMPETITION WINNERS The six lucky entrants to our competition in the October issue, picked at random, who will each receive a copy of The Balloon Factory are: David Fanson, Exeter; J R Burfield, Wigton; Gordon Wilson, Argyll; B A Bayford, Bishop’s Stortford; Mark Moore, Carlisle; J Sheraton, Lydney.

• Winged power
  NASA puts two Shuttles on adjacent pads at Kennedy Space Centre as the US space agency prepares to enter the second decade of space station operations.
  

• Malta airshow
  It’s almost over, but Derek Bower found one of the last of this year’s airshow events on an idyllic island in the Mediterranean.

• NBAA Convention, 2008
  Using the opportunity afforded by the annual business show, Rod Simpson takes us through the main runners in what is still a buoyant market.

• Comet anniversary
  Celebrating 50 years since the birth of trans-atlantic jet passenger services, we look at the flight of two de Havilland Comets on October 4, 1958.

• An Exercise in austerity!
  A new way of fighting air wars and supporting ground forces is explored by Steven May as he reports from RAF Fairford.

• High turns
  Michael van der Mee climbs the Alps to view the Swiss Air Force in fighting mood.
  
  
• Pegasus Airlines
  Barry Wheeler reports on Pegasus Airlines and takes a trip to Turkey to talk to the boss of this low-fare carrier.
  
  
• Soviet Air Power in World War II
  To mark the publication of a seminal work on Russia's air forces during the war with Germany, we recall those dark days when the Soviet Union fought back from near destruction.
  
  
• 100 Years of British Aviation
  Aviation News went along to a very special event marking the 100th anniversary of the first flight by Samuel Cody from a field at Farnborough, and caught up with a former Prime Minister.
  
  
• Russia on war footing!
  The Editor reports from Russia, Georgia and the Ukraine as the Kremlin unleashes the biggest and most aggressive war games for 20 years in a demonstration of power and capability.

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Pegasus Airlines – riding Turkey's airways

Eighteen months short of two decades since it began flying, Turkish operator Pegasus Airlines is now well established as one of the country’s leading commercial carriers and its first scheduled low-fare airline. Consultant Editor Barry Wheeler reports from Istanbul on the company’s success and what it hopes to achieve amidst the current international financial turmoil.

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