The October 2024 issue of Pilot magazine features a flight test of the only Rearwin Sportster in the UK as its cover star. The ‘bread and butter’ model in the US manufacturer’s 1930s line of aircraft is perhaps among a dozen to survive in airworthy condition.

Also inside, a private pilot and photographer looks back over 50 years of searching out opportunities for unusual flights around the globe, and a day at RAF Cranwell with the UK Military Flying Training System’s instructors, in a Grob 120TP Prefect and on the Phenom 100 simulator, reveals how the modern military pilot learns to fly.