Issue 9 of Aviation Classics Monthly explores landmark aircraft and air combat from the Second World War to the Cold War. Features include the Westland Whirlwind’s ground-attack role, the RAF’s F‑4 Phantom in UK service, the Armstrong Whitworth AW.169 interceptor project, Canada’s encounter with the Me 163 Komet, final carrier strikes against Japan in 1945, and detailed analysis of the troubled Messerschmitt Me 309 programme.