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More than a Century of History in the Air
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Contents
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NEWS AND
COMMENT
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FROM THE EDITOR
NEWS
• Two-seat Bf 109G-12 flies
• First engine runs for FHC Mosquito
• Spitfire PS915 back to Coningsby
• Oshkosh special report
… 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 10 • Issue no 522
October 2016
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FEATURES
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MARTIN MARS
Has the giant American flying boat
been given a new lease of life? Its
recent Oshkosh appearance certainly
suggested so
DUXFORD VICTOR
Conserving the IWM’s example of the
Handley Page classic, 40 years after it
arrived for preservation
IRISH SPITFIRES
The most detailed survey yet of the
two-seat Spitfire IX Trainer in service
with the Irish Air Corps
SPITFIRE G-AIDN
First air-to-airs of the prototype
two-seat ‘Spit’ — now operated by
the Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar — on
its return to flight in the UK
SWEDISH FREIGHTER
The brief career of the only Bristol
170 to see service in Sweden
AEROPLANE
MEETS…
VIC NORMAN
One of the great showmen of the
UK display scene, founder of the
world’s first formation wingwalking
team — and much more
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DATABASE:
CONVAIR
F-106
DELTA DART
Peter E. Davies
tells the story
of the US Air
Force’s ultimate
Cold War
interceptor
IN-DEPTH
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TRAGO MILLS SAH-1
The primary trainer that was the
brainchild of a discount supermarket
magnate
YAK-28 ‘FIREBAR’ CRASH
The intrigue that surrounded a Soviet
fighter’s ditching in a West Berlin lake
50 years ago
REGULARS
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SKYWRITERS
Q&A
Your questions asked and answered
HOOKS’ TOURS
More superb colour images from
Mike Hooks’ outstanding collection.
This month, a selection of Percival
Proctors
BOOKS
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COVER IMAGE:
Spitfire VIII Trainer MT818/
G-AIDN on its first air-to-air sortie since flying
again in the UK.
RICHARD PAVER
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Aeroplane
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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.
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alking to Vic Norman for this month’s
‘Aeroplane meets…’ feature brought to
mind many far-gone days. There’s the First
World War, given the Royal Flying Corps
heritage of his beautiful home airfield at Rendcomb in the
Cotswolds. There’s the between-the-wars ‘barnstorming’
heyday, as recalled by Vic’s Stearman wingwalking teams,
today under Breitling sponsorship. There’s the era when
examples of even the most famous historic racing cars, like
Maserati 250Fs and Ferrari 250GTOs, remained within
reasonable financial reach. And, perhaps above all, there’s
the time when privateer entrants could try their luck at
top-line international motorsport. Some of the names that
Vic knew typify just that — the likes of Alain de Cadenet
and Chris Craft, for instance. At the end of 1971, de
Cadenet bought an outdated Brabham BT33 for Craft to
drive in the season-closing Canadian and US Grands Prix.
It brought no results at World Championship level, but
when the pair teamed up to take on the Le Mans 24 Hours
they created a new legend of British endurance racing. The
highlight was a magnificent third place for the de Cadenet-
Lola in 1976, on a fraction of the budget of the big teams.
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E D I TO R
There are many close connections between motor
racing and historic aviation, de Cadenet himself being
a good example, and Robs Lamplough another. ‘Taff’
Smith, featured in ‘Aeroplane meets…’ a few months
back, competes regularly in historic racing events; Red
Bull Matadors and warbird pilot Steve Jones likewise. No
surprise, then, to see events that combine the two. The
Goodwood Revival is of course the most famous, while
on 25-26 September the Footman James Sywell Classic
mixes ground and aerial action in a different way. Among
the cars performing demonstration runs at the Sywell
event will be members of the Dawn Treader Performance
fleet, headed up by Patrick Morgan — son of the late Paul
Morgan, another man with both racing and flying in his
blood. And the end-of-season Shuttleworth Race Day and
Roaring Twenties show will see the first ever Shuttleworth
Sprint, with three classes of vehicle ranging from veterans
and Edwardians to 1960s classics taking to the Old
Warden runway. Wings and wheels continue to be a potent
combination.
Ben Dunnell
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CONTRIBUTORS
THIS MONTH
Pe t e r R .
ARNOLD
Pe t e r E .
DAV I E S
To n y
KEARNS
J ay
SELMAN
Peter photographed his first Spitfire in
September 1957 — AB910 at Biggin Hill.
This was to be the start of a lifelong
passion collating data and
photographing the surviving Spitfires of
the world, taking him to all the far-
flung outposts of the former Empire
and the countries that re-equipped
with Spitfires and Seafires post-war.
Along the way he has co-authored the
definitive work on the subject with
Gordon Riley and collected half-a-
dozen Spitfire/Seafire projects, with
one flying and three in progress.
Inspired by his father’s WW2 career in
Sunderland flying boats and a guided
tour of the Bristol Brabazon at an early
age, Peter has always been interested in
aviation. Combining writing with a
career as a head of faculty in the
education world, he has published more
than 30 aviation books, specialising in
post-war combat aircraft and having a
particular focus on the Vietnam War.
More recently he has contributed to a
series on American ‘X-planes’ and
completed four ‘Database’ features for
this magazine.
Hailing from Dublin, Tony is the
historical advisor to the Irish Air Corps
as designated by the late Brig Gen
Barney McMahon. He has a special
interest in the IAC and the period
during World War Two, when aircraft
from the Luftwaffe and the Allied air
forces were regular intruders into and
around neutral Irish airspace. The range
of his historical research includes
crashes, combats and other incidents.
Now retired, Tony volunteers at the Irish
Air Corps Museum and Heritage Centre
at Baldonnel.
Jay has been an aviation enthusiast
since the age of six and a photo-
journalist for nearly 35 years. He has
written in excess of 200 articles that
have appeared in more than 20
publications, and has also served as
the editor of an enthusiast magazine.
Jay was a 33-year veteran of the airline
industry, and recently retired from his
job with a major carrier in Charlotte,
North Carolina. This month he reports
on the latest news concerning the
Martin Mars, following its recent
Oshkosh appearance.
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