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BRITISH AIRLINERS
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TWENTIES TRI-MOTORS
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BEA HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS
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TESTING THE COMET 3
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ANGLO CARGO AT WAR
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NEWS AND
COMMENT
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FROM THE EDITOR
NEWS
• B-29
Doc
flies again
• EAA’s P-64 airborne
• ‘Winkle’ Brown memorial event
… and the month’s other top aircraft
preservation news
HANGAR TALK
Steve Slater’s monthly comment
column on the historic aircraft world
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FEATURES
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NORTH WEALD HERITAGE
AVIATION
The birth of a new warbird collection
at the famous Essex airfield
B-17 PoW RESCUE
A secret World War Two mission in
Soviet-occupied Poland
SPITFIRE MH434
Back in the air — with a little help
from the OFMC’s friends
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TURBULENT TOUR
The first of the Druine lightplanes to
visit Britain
AEROPLANE
MEETS…
CHRIS GÖTKE
The very skilled ‘boss’ of the
Royal Navy Historic Flight
DATABASE: FELIXSTOWE
FLYING BOATS
Pete London
details the
aircraft that
brought the
flying boat to
prominence with
the Royal Naval
Air Service
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REGULARS
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SKYWRITERS
Q&A
Your questions asked and answered
AIRCREW
The crew of the Fairey IIID that
became the first aircraft to fly the
South Atlantic
BRITISH AIRLINERS
HERCULES AND ARGOSY
A tale of two Twenties tri-motors
THE LOSS OF
CAVALIER
An Imperial Airways Empire boat’s
final voyage
BEA HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS
Serving Scotland’s rural communities
COMET 3
Just one was built, but it
contributed much to the Comet 4
ANGLO CARGO AT WAR
The UK freight carrier’s role in the Gulf
LIGHT AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION
Celebrating 70 years of ‘flying for fun’
IN-DEPTH
PAGES
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SWISS AIR FORCE VENOMS
de Havilland jets in Alpine action
COVER IMAGE:
One of the first air-to-airs of
Hawker Fury G-CBEL, newly-painted as Sea Fury
prototype SR661, from North Weald Heritage
Aviation.
DARREN HARBAR
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EVENTS
Reports from Flying Legends, RIAT,
Farnborough and Yeovilton, plus
show previews and listings
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BOOKS
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and published until 1968. It was
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utting together an issue in which British
airlines and airliners are so prominent,
my thoughts have again turned to the
topic of preserving such aircraft — and
how, despite the best efforts of numerous organisations,
so many airframes once thought safe have since been
lost. The unfortunate scrapping of most of the British
Airways Collection at Cosford highlighted in very public
fashion the risks to large airframes left outside with no
proper plans for their preservation. While the airliners
in the Science Museum’s store at Wroughton are at least
part of a national collection and kept under cover, the
likelihood of their ever going on public display is surely
slim at best.
One group, therefore, is key. The Duxford Aviation
Society has worked wonders over the years on what
it now dubs its British Airliner Collection, and this
without funding from central government. While
some of its aircraft are, pleasingly, under cover in IWM
Duxford’s AirSpace building, constraints of space dictate
that most cannot be. Among them is, of course, the
world’s sole surviving Airspeed Ambassador. Yet the
diligence of the DAS team has seen to it that the aircraft
exhibited outside continue to survive in good order.
P
E D I TO R
The BAC One-Eleven was re-finished to immaculate
standard not so long ago; the Handley Page Herald nears
completion, and the Bristol Britannia is undergoing
a full refresh, supported recently by a working party
from Monarch Airlines, in whose colours the ‘Brit’ still
appears. Behind the scenes, the DAS volunteers are
forever grafting on myriad minor tasks that may not
be immediately obvious, but all of which go towards
keeping this very important collection in the best
possible condition.
So, here’s something of a rallying cry: the DAS
deserves your support. Above any other organisation, the
future of British commercial aircraft preservation lies in
its hands.
Every magazine is a movable feast of contents, and so
it’s proved with the September
Aeroplane.
Unfortunately
the piece about the Cold War Yak-28 crash in West
Berlin has had to be held over until next time — given
the article on the loss of Imperial Airways Empire
boat
Cavalier,
two features on ditchings seemed a little
excessive. So, look out for it in your October-dated copy.
Ben Dunnell
From the
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CONTRIBUTORS
THIS MONTH
Igor
B E ST- D E V E R E U X
Jeremy
DRONFIELD
Darren
HARBAR
Steve
S L AT E R
Igor has been in and around light
aircraft since childhood. He grew up
with parents who were passionate
about flying and who would take their
two children ‘air-touring’ in a variety
of what are now vintage Miles, de
Havilland and Percival types. Igor
considers himself extremely fortunate
to have enjoyed the light aviation
community for more than 55 years in
the UK, France and the USA. He is a
private pilot who operates a Bücker
Jungmann and Maule M7 from
Bountiful Skypark in Utah.
Jeremy is a biographer, ghostwriter
and military historian. Following an
academic career in archaeology, he
branched out into popular writing.
His recent books include ‘Beyond
the Call’, the true story of Capt
Robert Trimble, as featured in this
issue. Jeremy’s latest title is ‘Dr James
Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her
Time’, the biography of a Regency
woman who disguised herself as a
man and had a tempestuous
50-year career as a British
Army surgeon.
Going the extra mile this month,
aviation photographer Darren
Harbar got stuck in at Sywell
assisting the Air Leasing team in
getting Hawker Fury G-CBEL ready
for Flying Legends and a photo-
shoot for our cover image. The Fury
is part of a newly-formed collection
at North Weald, and Darren has
been back and forth between Sywell,
Duxford and North Weald (by
aircraft and car) to bring us the full
story on North Weald Heritage
Aviation.
Our regular ‘Hangar Talk’ columnist,
Steve is chief executive officer of the
Light Aircraft Association. He joined
the LAA from a successful career in PR
and marketing communications,
where he ran an agency working in
sectors including aviation, the motor
industry and tourism, both in the UK
and Asia. Steve is also well-known as a
motorsport commentator. He has
been actively involved in the light
aviation community for more than a
decade, including a period as
chairman of the Vintage Aircraft Club.
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