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- Panorama. (Includes information about participation of Antonov ASTC in Dubai Air Show’2009 held in UAE within a period from 15 to 19 of November; signing the first contract on delivery of An-148 outside the CIS; start of factory tests of An-74T-200A military transport built in Kharkov against contract with Egypt; deliveries of Ukrainian-made engines for Chinese trainers; routine launch of "Zenit-3SLB" rocket from Baikonur cosmodrome; completion of the state tests of new À-50U AEW&C aircraft; first flights of European A400M military transport and AW149 and AW159 helicopters created by Agusta Westland corporation; take-off of the first prototype of Solar Impulse aircraft, the first aircraft in the world able to fly twenty-four hours a day without fuel and other reports. 12 photos).
- Line of fate. (An article in Monograph rubric about Yak-3 fighter, the legendary aircraft of Great Patriotic War. 40 photos, colour schemes of 6 aircraft, drawings in scale of 1:72).
- "Crocodile" against a background… (An article, in which MiG-23BN and MiG-27 Soviet fighter-bombers are compared to the foreign analogues. It is the conclusion of the monograph published in the magazine’s issue No.5’2009. 9 photos).
- "Zero" of high-tech era. (An article about the newest Mitsubishi F-2 fighter Japanese-developed. 8 photos, colour schemes of 5 aircraft, drawings in scale of 1:72).
- Tests of An-24 at an alpine airfield. (Memorials of Igor Babenko, a direct participant of the tests held in Georgia in September 1964. 3 photos).
- At a far outpost. (The first part of an article about the combat missions of Soviet aviation providing air-cover of Port-Arthur marine military base, which China rented to the USSR within 1945-54. 10 photos).
- The bridge under which Valerii Chkalov flew. (An article, author of which shows groundlessness of a popular myth in the history of domestic aviation. 4 photo).
- The first commander-in-chief of Ukrainian aviation. (An article about General Vyacheslav Baranov, who headed Ukrainian military air forces in 1917-18. Modern historians give different estimates to his activity. 10 photos).
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