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WANGARATTA WARHAWKS: SPECIAL FEATURE
COMBAT VETERAN
WARHAWK
Doug Hamilton’s P-40N
Fire In The Sky
B-17 down
Longhorn Spitfire
A French connection in Texas
Warhawk’s 72-Year Sojourn
Building (& Rebuilding) The P-40
Kittyhawk Renaissance
A True Survivor
Unwilling Seafarers
A ‘Betty’ crew lost at sea
NEWS
Classic Jets Closes
✪
HARS Convair
✪
Caribou moves
Lockheed Vega
✪
Catalinas
✪
‘Columbine II’
✪
Nomad saved
Hendon deconstruction
✪
Proctor preserved & more
VOLUME 27 NUMBER 4
SPECIAL FEATURE
CURTISS P-40 SPECIAL
Contents
Volume 27 Number 4, May-July 2016
80
Features
70 Kittyhawk Renaissance
James Kightly
&
Benjamin Gilbert
examine the
remarkable increase in the numbers and variety of
P-40s in preservation.
24 A Dragon’s Tale
Geoff Goodall
traces the history of DH Dragon VH-AMN
from RAAF trainer to potential crayfish freighter.
28 The Martin Baltimore: Part 1
Mark Lax
begins his study of the role and operations
of the RAAF’s forgotten bomber of World War II.
52 Fire In The Sky
Michael Musumeci
and
Andy Wright
detail the loss
of a 19th Bomb Group Flying Fortress and its entire crew.
34 Unwilling Seafarers
Michael Claringbould
presents an intimate glimpse
into the survival of a Japanese ‘Betty’ bomber crew
through the eyes of the survivors.
58 From The ‘Junior Log Book’
How living next to a new aerodrome began a lifelong
passion for aviation.
62 Convenient Fiction
Michael Claringbould
reveals how a celebrated combat
by a lone Japanese fighter over Rangoon in late 1943 falls
short under detailed investigation.
CURTISS P-40 SPECIAL
40 Warhawk’s 72-Year Sojourn
Flightpath
Editor
Rob Fox
travelled to country Victoria
to witness the first post-restoration flight of a rare W.W.II
combat veteran P-40N Warhawk.
74 Longhorn Spitfire
Luigino Caliaro’s
portrait of the Texas Flying Legends’
latest aircraft, their veteran Spitfire Mk.IX MK959.
46 Building (& Rebuilding)
The P-40
James Kightly
delineates the P-40’s construction history,
and the major challenges in its worldwide rebuild process.
Regulars
WANGARATTA WARHAWKS: SPECIAL FEATURE
COMBAT VETERAN
WARHAWK
Doug Hamilton’s P-40N
48 A True Survivor
Michael Claringbould
studies the combat history of the
restored P-40N-5, 42-104986, and its pilots with the USAAF’s
8th Fighter Squadron, 49th Fighter Group in New Guinea.
Fire In The Sky
B-17 down
Longhorn Spitfire
A French connection in Texas
Warhawk’s 72-Year Sojourn
Building (& Rebuilding) The P-40
Kittyhawk Renaissance
A True Survivor
Unwilling Seafarers
A ‘Betty’ crew lost at sea
$9.95 /
NZ $9.90 (incl GST)
VOLUME 27 NUMBER 4
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NEWS
Classic Jets Closes
✪
HARS Convair
✪
Caribou moves
Lockheed Vega
✪
Catalinas
✪
‘Columbine II’
✪
Nomad saved
Hendon deconstruction
✪
Proctor preserved & more
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SPECIAL FEATURE
CURTISS P-40 SPECIAL
COVER: Editor Rob Fox
captured Doug
Hamilton flying his
combat veteran
P-40N, VH-PFO, on an
early post-restoration
flight. Cameraship
was Doug’s T-6
Harvard flown by
Mick Poole.
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In April it was announced the Classic Jets
Fighter Museum (CJFM) will close its doors
and place all its assets up for sale. Founding
Director Bob Jarrett, when commenting on
the closure, said, “After twenty years of op-
eration, it has been very difficult to arrive at
the decision to close. However, family health
issues mean that I cannot continue to keep
the museum going.”
CJFM has been operating from two hang-
ars at Parafield Airport, South Australia,
since 1996. “I initially started in Hangar 52,
building up the museum and aircraft three
years before I opened the doors,” said Bob.
Hangar 52, the display hangar, and its con-
tents will be sold, but the maintenance hang-
ar, and the Corsair under restoration there,
will be retained. The museum’s rare ‘Bird-
cage’ Vought F4U-1 Corsair (Bu.02270) is the
oldest known to exist. “We will continue to
work on the Corsair and finish its restora-
tion,” added Bob. CJFM salvaged the Corsair
from a lagoon in Vanuatu where it crashed,
near Quoin Hill airfield on the north coast
of the island of Efate, on 5 May 1944.
At the time of writing, a number of the
museum’s aircraft had already been sold, in-
cluding Sabre A94-947 which is moving to
New South Wales for a potential return to
flying status. “Putting the museum’s P-39
up for sale has been the single hardest deci-
sion for me,” said Bob. The aircraft is paint-
ed in 24 Squadron RAAF colours to repre-
sent the squadron’s first Airacobra, A53-12.
That P-39 flew in the defence of Sydney af-
ter the May 1942 Japanese midget subma-
rine attack in the harbour.
The museum has recently divested itself of
other aircraft from the collection, including
Meteor F.8 A77-847 now at Ashburton, New
Zealand, and the rare Lockheed P-38H Light-
ning (42-66841) which went to David Ar-
nold’s Bentwaters, England, facility in late
2014 to return to flight (see Vol.26, No.2).
While the Mustang fuselage and Merlin en-
gine have been sold to the UK, good homes
are being sought for other aircraft including
the Sea Venom and Mirage III.
Rob Fox
LEFT:
Bob Jarrett is hoping
to find an appropriate home
for the P-39 Airacobra. It has
been finished as the P-39
that flew combat air patrols
after the midget submarine
attack on Sydney Harbour in
May 1942.
[James Kightly]
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BELOW:
The new W.W.I
display.
[Images ANAM]
BELOW LEFT:
The museum’s
volunteer crew stripping the
Canberra prior to dismantling.
LEFT:
Moorabbin GAF Nomad
A18-316 on arrival at the
Museum, with the wings and
tail following a week later.
Moorabbin
Developments
The Australian National Aviation Museum (ANAM) Moorabbin, Vic-
toria, has moved up a couple of gears over the last few months. The
first major display in over twenty years was finally launched in Feb-
ruary and will run until March 2017. This new W.W.I Gallery, enti-
tled ‘Australians in the Skies’ features stories on the lives of four of
Australia’s most notable aviators from the Great War (of whom
three were Victorians), along with the amazing story of the German
raider SMS
Wolf
which menaced our shores during that time.
Artefacts on display include the newly overhauled locally made
Kelly and Lewis V8 aero engine; the Fokker DR.1 fuel tank, possibly
from Manfred von Richthofen's, (the ‘Red Baron’s) aircraft; the BE-
2a wings, and a number of smaller artefacts from pilots, soldiers
and even fragments from crashed German Zeppelins. Already
hailed a major success, it is a feature point within the Museum, and
sets the standard for future developments.
The Museum was grateful to receive not one, but two aircraft
donations recently. The first is the donation by Air Force Heritage
of a Government Aircraft Factory (GAF) Canberra A84-226, which
is currently located at RAAF Wagga Wagga, NSW. It is due to make
the trip down the highway very soon on three semi trailers.
The other donation was a complete surprise. An email was re-
ceived offering a GAF Nomad, A18-316, which has had a very inter-
esting life both here and in the USA. It had not been seen for over a
decade as it was in storage, but has now made the trip from Gipps-
land to Moorabbin where it will be reassembled and brought out for
the Family Open Cockpit Day in October. It is in remarkable condi-
tion, and a couple of members were thrilled to be reunited with the
aircraft they built and serviced. The museum management would
like to thank Mahindra Aerospace for the wonderful donation of
such a great aircraft.
Most importantly it realises a goal for the Museum. The GAF air-
craft collection is now complete, a major first and certainly bodes well
for the future as they move towards completing the Commonwealth
Aircraft Corporation (CAC) collection. The Mustang Fundraising pro-
ject, to fill the main remaining gap in this set, is nearing its target as
well, a massive amount of work has been done on this in the past six
months. If you would like to contribute a donation to the project,
please visit the website at www.aarg.com.au.
James Kightly
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