EDITOR'S COMMENT

摘要

When I first saw the preserved remains of a World War Two Japanese incendiary balloon-bomb - illustrated below -during our 2004 reader tour of Canada, I knew it would make a good subject for an article in Aeroplane. But could we add anything to our original story on the subject, published 31 years ago in our August 1978 issue, or to the late John Fricker's Crosswind comment in our February 2005 edition? The answer (eventually) was yes, especially the newly-emerging twist about Japan's nuclear-weapons ambitions. See this month's Hidden History feature on page 16.