AVIONS N°231

Goodbye Lionel ...
Our friend and partner from the number 01 of AVIONS just left us this 23 August 2019.
It was the first of the 231 covers that Lionel Labeyrie was going to draw for this magazine. His collaboration did not stop there: covers for specials or books, characters for Air Battles and Ships & History, casual portraits in Airplanes. A "mass" of drawings that undoubtedly constitute a remarkable work, just as unique in its kind; few magazines or magazines have probably worked so long with the same artist. And all this in all humility, with a lot of sensitivity because Lionel was a true artist.
We will now have to do without Lionel and Aircraft will never be the same magazine. This cover design that characterized him so much disappears with him.

In the contents of this No. 231:
- Arawasi, the "wild eagles" of the Japanese Imperial Army. The Philippines: the tomb of wild eagles. By Bernard Baëza.
- Catalina against U-Boot. Meeting off West Africa. By Andrew Thomas.
- The Grumman F6F Hellcat in the Second World War. 1945: from Tokyo to Iwo Jima. By Michel Ledet
French squadrons on the Venetian front. Last part: from August 1918 to the armistice. By Luigino Caliaro and Roberto Gentilli, with the collaboration of Christophe Cony.
- FIAT CR 42 Falco. Last part: in service abroad. By Luigino Caliaro.
- Marcel Coadou. Ace in two world wars. Second and last part. By Christophe Cony and Jean-Jacques Leclercq.
- News: The Boeing EA-18G Growler.