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WARBIRD SPECIAL
OWNING • RESTORING • FLYING
More than a Century of History in the Air
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HURRICANE
HERITAGE
EXCLUSIVE!
Exciting
plans for
Battle of
Britain
veteran
Plus…
KIWI ‘CAT’ •
DUXFORD SHOWS
SKYBLAZERS SABRE
and more
FIRST
Bf 109G AIR-TO-AIRS
G
O
S
BLACK WIDOWS
Fighting by day and night
W O R L D WA R T W O
DATABASE
THE MOTH’S RIVALS
JULY 2016
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NEWS AND
COMMENT
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FROM THE EDITOR
NEWS
• Canberra WK163 to fly again
• Hurricanes change hands
• CAF PBJ-1J post-restoration flight
… and the month’s other top aircraft
preservation news
HANGAR TALK
Steve Slater’s monthly comment
column on the historic aircraft world
Vol 44, no 7 • Issue no 519
July 2016
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FEATURES
WARBIRD
WARBIRD
SPECIAL
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SPENCER FLACK
Remembering the late warbird
owner/pilot and his famed ‘Elstree
Air Force’
DUXFORD CLASSIC FIGHTER
SHOWS
A retrospective on some
much-loved warbird displays
FLYING LEGENDS BALBO
Planning and flying a spectacular
Duxford showpiece
MILITARY AVIATION MUSEUM
Bf 109G
Exclusive first air-to-airs of Jerry
Yagen’s ‘Gustav’
KIWI CATALINA
The return to flight of New Zealand’s
only airworthy PBY
HURRICANE HERITAGE
James Brown, the new owner of
Hurricane I R4118, on buying this
Battle of Britain veteran and his
plans for operating it
MIKAEL CARLSON
The Swedish craftsman and pilot
truly evokes the pioneer age
SKYBLAZERS SABRE
An airworthy F-86 recalls the US Air
Forces in Europe aerobatic team —
PLUS!
A look back at the Skyblazers’
glory days
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BLACK WIDOWS OVER EUROPE
P-61s fighting by night and day
during the Allied advance
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17
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REGULARS
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22
90
SKYWRITERS
Q&A
Your questions asked and answered
AIRCREW
Being a gunner on an RAF Bristol
Beaufort torpedo bomber was a risky
business
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DATABASE: THE MOTH’S RIVALS
Mike Hooks
describes the
DH60’s four main
competitors:
the Blackburn
Bluebird,
Simmonds
Spartan/Spartan
Arrow, Robinson
Redwing and
IN-DEPTH
PAGES
Avro Avian
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60
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VAK 191
The history of West Germany’s VTOL
strike aircraft programme
COVER IMAGE:
Hurricane Heritage’s Hawker
Hurricane I R4118 on its first air-to-air sortie
since James Brown acquired the aircraft from
Peter Vacher last year. At the controls is Antony
‘Parky’ Parkinson.
DARREN HARBAR
114
EVENTS
A report from La Ferté Alais and
previews of the big summer shows
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BOOKS
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Aeroplane
traces its lineage back
to the weekly
The Aeroplane,
founded by C. G. Grey in 1911
and published until 1968. It was
re-launched as a monthly in 1973
by Richard T. Riding, editor for 25
years until 1998.
ESTABLISHED 1911
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ow to engage new generations in historic
aviation — in flying, in restoring, in
engineering? It’s something many have
pondered for a long time. Well, as
difficult as it may sometimes appear to get actively
involved, it’s far from out of reach. At a grass-roots
level, the Vintage Aircraft Club has just announced its
first-ever flying scholarship. The Liz Inwood
Taildragger Scholarship, named in honour of the
late Tiger Moth pilot and instructor Liz Inwood,
will offer five hours’ flying to a PPL, NPPL or LAPL
licence-holder under the age of 35, assisting them in
transitioning from nosewheel designs to tailwheel types.
Who is to say that a recipient, having caught the bug,
won’t progress to more powerful historic machinery as
time goes on?
On a different level, one sees at the Shuttleworth
Collection how new blood is being fostered. Now that
flying Old Warden’s vintage aeroplanes is no longer the
preserve of test pilots, over recent years the Collection
has brought in a number of suitably talented taildragger
exponents, all sympathetic to the particular demands
of operating and displaying vintage aeroplanes.
H
E D I TO R
Broadening the pilot cadre in this way can only bode
well for the future.
And the same goes for new owners, willing to take
the plunge and invest both time and money — to say
nothing of emotions — in historic aircraft. This issue
provides a fine example, in the form of James Brown
and Hurricane Heritage. Had it not been for him, Battle
of Britain veteran Hurricane I R4118 would almost
certainly have left UK shores. That it hasn’t, and that
James and his team have such a positive vision for the
aircraft’s operation, is cause for celebration.
Since this month’s magazine has such a warbird focus,
we have decided to give our ‘Aeroplane meets…’ feature
a break. However, rest assured that it will be back next
month, when the subject will be Royal Navy Historic
Flight commanding officer Lt Cdr Chris Götke. We
also dropped our planned coverage of the Flugmuseum
Messerschmitt when the air-to-air feature on the Military
Aviation Museum’s newly-restored Bf 109G came in, but
you’ll be able to read it later in the year.
Ben Dunnell
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CONTRIBUTORS
THIS MONTH
James
BROWN
Mike
H O O KS
Daniel
KARLSSON
Dr Andreas
ZEITLER
James Brown is a British software
entrepreneur with a lifelong passion
for flying. As the founder and CEO of a
global software company, for the last
15 years his aviating has been largely
confined to weekend trips in his
Cessna 182. However, with the recent
sale of his company, he has now
fulfilled a boyhood dream and
become the owner of Hurricane
R4118 — the last airworthy Battle of
Britain Hurricane — and a Harvard
IIb. He has now set himself the
challenge to fly them both.
Our senior contributor is as busy as
ever. Apart from compiling our ever-
popular Q&A pages, Mike this month
provides our Database section, but
one with a difference — instead of a
single aircraft type, this one covers
four, namely the main rivals to de
Havilland’s market-leading DH60
Moth. There aren’t many magazines
these days willing to devote 13 pages
to the Avro Avian, Robinson Redwing,
Blackburn Bluebird and Simmonds/
Spartan family, but
Aeroplane
always
likes to be different…
With both his father and grandfather
working for Swedish electronics
company Ericsson, making the radars
for Saab fighters and AEW aircraft,
Daniel was introduced to the world
of aviation at a young age. He soon
took up aviation journalism and
photography and has been doing it
ever since, with an increasing focus
on air-to-air shoots. Daniel’s passion
for historic aviation is manifested in
his recent book ‘Flygande klassiker —
Warbirds and Vintage Aircraft over
Sweden’.
Bavarian-based Andreas, who this
month examines the history of the
VAK 191, says: “Having kept abreast of
recent developments in fast jet V/STOL
aircraft, it was a fascinating step back
in time to consider the West German
designs that emerged during the
height of the Cold War. In many cases,
major technological developments
were made, and I was impressed at
how the test pilots dealt with flying
these amazing aircraft. Thankfully,
though, these types never had to be
put to their intended use.”
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