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OUR LEGENDARY CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE
December 2019
Issue No 560,
Vol 47,
No 12
HISTORY IN THE AIR SINCE 1911
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Contents
December 2019
Make it an
Christmas
See pages 14-15 for de
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NEWS AND
COMMENT
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FROM THE EDITOR
NEWS
• DH9 replica unveiled at Aviodrome
• Another Spitfire IXT for Biggin
• Hunter F1 moves to Montrose
…and the month’s other top aircraft
preservation news
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WORKSHOP
Probably Sweden’s most ambitious
aircraft restoration project — a Heinkel
He 111 with a notable tale attached
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HANGAR TALK
Steve Slater’s comment on the historic
aircraft world
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FLIGHT LINE
Reflections on aviation history with
Denis J. Calvert
FEATURES
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FLIGHT TESTING THE DH9
‘Dodge’ Bailey reports on preparing
and executing the flight-test
programme for the world’s only
airworthy First World War bomber —
PLUS!
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PORTUGUESE OVER GUINEA
Waging a guerrilla war in its African
colonies, Portugal faced a gap in
combat aircraft capability — until the
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ROB MILLINSHIP
The homebuilder and Pitts expert
whose talents have stretched to a
huge range of vintage aeroplanes
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KAMIKAZE MUSEUMS
Harrowing stories from the Japanese
collections that remember the
kamikaze pilots
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DATA
BASE
DATABASE
MARTINSYDE
G100 serial 7266 was
among
Elephants flown to France the first 10 Martinsyde
March 1916. It later becameby No 27 Squadron on 1
one of three fitted with
the Royal Aircraft Factory
Periscopic
Bomb Sight
MkII,
and served with No 49
Squadron.
CHRIS SANDHAM
BAILEY
TECHNI
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DETAILS
ELEPHANT
Development
Development
There was
a
when it came degree of ‘trial and
error’
to refining
the Elephan
t
A6289 rejoiced
in the
Kim
and
later
Mount
names
Malaya
No 4, the
Lofty, South
pre-delivery
Wi-Cheng
background
at Brooklands
Australia.
It is pictured
. Fitted with
, with the
joined No
a
27 Squadronventral bomb racetrack in the
rack, the
in September
machine
1917.
KEY COLLECTION
REGULARS
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SKYWRITERS
22
Q&A
Your questions asked and answered
80
HOOKS’ TOURS
More superb colour shots from the late
Mike Hooks’ collection — the subject
this time is the Ilyushin Il-18
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REVIEWS: CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
A bumper festive crop of the latest
aviation books and products in the
spotlight
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NEXT MONTH
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MOSQUITO RR299
As e orts to get a Mosquito flying
in Britain gather pace, former pilots
remember the much-missed RR299
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UK MOSQUITO PROJECTS
The two projects aiming to see an
airworthy ‘Mossie’ back in British skies
— and how you can help
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MODERN AIR IN BERLIN
The American airline that brought the
grace and pace of the Convair CV-990
to the divided city
See
page 60
for full
details
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MARTINSYDE
MARTINSYDE
ELEPHANT
ELEPHANT
It’s not the best-known
of British types from
the 1914-18 war, but
the Elephant deserves greater
IN DEPTH
PAGES
recognition — and, here, Pete
London provides it
Technical Details
Technical Details
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PETE LONDON
An Elephant of No 14
Squadron, its
undercarriage reinforced
with a cross-
brace to allow carriage
of greater
loads than originally envisaged. bomb
That said,
it has no bomb racks fi
tted.
VIA PETE LONDON
Elephant
around the
was a two-bay
staggered
asymmetri nose area was
biplane,
c, a portion
powered
the front
e engine’s
initially by
cut out at
Beardmore
to
radiator was
a
mounted
reach the allow maintainer
Austro-Dai -built 120hp
internally,
s to
magneto
mler
powerplan
aft
e fuselage
installation
Later machines
in-line engine six-cylinder
t, while fuel of the
.
decking aroundsides and
had bigger
was 50.5
in the G100
tankage
openings,
version,
gallons.
the
while the
and later
were plywood-co cockpit
e prototype
did without
side radiator
starboard
by the more
powerful
vered, the
fuselage
but less mechanica
air intake
manifold, an exhaust
enlarged,
being fabric-cove aft
reliable 160hp
llet was
but, after
though it
On the starboard
pilots
complaine
form of that lly
red.
was found
this could
powerplan
d
lead to
fuselage
below the
t in
fumes and of ingesting exhaust
side
icing. Pilot-contr carburettor
which allowed the G102 variant,
cockpit, a
consequen
bracket could
hardwood
production
t nausea,
were introduced olled shutters
greater bomb carriage of
accommod
a vertically
a manifold, machines received
, and the
loads.
ate
carburettor
mounted,
e type’s
system was
semi-autom
18-plate
these were though sometimes
were of equal
two-spar wings
lagged.
modi ed
camera was atic camera. e
removed
broad parallel 38ft span and of
altogether. or even
gap betweenaimed through the
chord with
tips. e
the fuselage
raked
lower
the lower
and
wing. From
inboard just wings terminated
the
sides and short of the fuselage
employed
plywood
end-plates; substantial
the resultant
through
were visible. gaps the spars
tted to all Ailerons were
four
ight surfaces, wings. Like its
the machine’s
fuselage
was of wood
fabric constructio
and
n, being
rectangular
of
section surmounte
by curved
decking.
d
fuselage
e forward
portion
engine cowling around the
with aluminiumwas skinned
sheet —
eld this part
in the
grey, perhaps was often painted
the amount in order to reduce
of
At the outset glare.
the G100
prototype,
serial 4735,
a three-blade
employed
d
but production Lang propeller,
a two-bladed machines had
Martinsyde
type. e
production.
built an experimenta
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A flight-test from 70 years ago of the
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Cover image:
British Aerospace’s Mosquito TIII
RR299 photographed in 1992.
RICHARD PAVER
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here is de nitely something
DH9, which we feature this month,
to be said for ‘out-of-season’
was probably the individual highlight,
airshows. As I write, on the
but there have been many others. Old
rst weekend of November, it
Warden and Duxford, it almost goes
seems hard to credit that the last proper
without saying, provided most of them.
ying display of 2019 took place just two
Between the two venues, just consider
weeks ago. is was IWM Duxford’s nal what we’ve seen in 2019: massed DC-3s/
Showcase Day of the year, an excellent
C-47s, a seven-Hurricane formation, a
afternoon’s aviating involving no fewer
vic of ve Buchóns and a fabulous Fury/
than 19 based aircraft from several of
Sea Fury trio, to name but a few. Given
the local operators. It was the latest of
such richness at the heavier end, it
these events, smaller and less formal
may seem surprising to cite the English
in nature than a full Duxford airshow,
Electric Wren as another stand-out, but
but which have proved highly popular,
anyone who saw the machine making
and presented some unusual and
its longest public ight for many, many
imaginative spectacles. For example,
years at Shuttleworth’s May evening
August’s showcase featured a Desert War display will concur. ere have been
duo of P-40F and Spit re Vc; October’s
stars elsewhere, too — the Mosquito
included several rare formations,
and Lancaster taxiing together at East
among them a Lysander and Hurricane
Kirkby, the return to Britain of the
I tailchase. After
Swedish Air Force
so much of the
Historic Flight’s
Activity outside the
ying programme
jets at several
regular calendar is very
seafront shows. As
at the Shuttleworth
Collection’s Race
we look forward to
welcome indeed
Day a fortnight
2020, and another
earlier was canned due to strong winds,
big Battle of Britain anniversary, the
Duxford was, by all accounts, a delightful prospects are exciting.
way to end the season.
at goes for the longer term as well.
Many years ago now, there used
to be a rich and varied schedule of
e newest developments with the
two projects to return a de Havilland
motorsport throughout the autumn
Mosquito to British skies seemed a
and winter, bridging the gap between
good excuse to feature both — and
the end of one main summer season
to remember our last ying ‘Mossie’
,
and the start of another. Brands Hatch
was famed for its very well-supported
the hugely missed RR299. It was a
Boxing Day meetings. Of course, it’s
great pleasure to interview two ne
gentlemen, former British Aerospace
simply not possible to hold air displays
test pilots Tony Craig and John Sadler,
year-round in the UK. But these extra
about their memories of ying the
bits of meaningful activity, outside the
famous warbird. e recollections
regular May-to-September calendar,
owed freely, whether of saying no to
are very welcome indeed. at goes for
any chance to see historic aeroplanes in the Chief of the Air Sta , potentially
proper action.
scaring the horses at Chester races, or
many more. I hope you enjoy them, too.
Indeed, it’s been a very good year
for the vintage end of Britain’s airshow
Ben Dunnell
scene. e Historic Aircraft Collection’s
Aeroplane
traces its lineage back to the weekly The Aeroplane,
founded by C. G. Grey in 1911 and published until 1968. It was
relaunched as a monthly in 1973 by Richard T. Riding, editor for 25
years until 1998.
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Editor
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CONTRIBUTORS THIS MONTH
‘DODGE’ BAILEY
Roger Bailey joined the RAF
in 1969 and served for 20
years, retiring as o cer
commanding the Aerospace
Research Squadron at RAE
Bedford in December 1989
to become chief test pilot at
what was then Cranfield
College of Aeronautics, later
Cranfield University. It was
also in 1989 that ‘Dodge’ joined the Shuttleworth
Collection as a volunteer pilot. He became chief
pilot prior to the 2011 season, retiring as such at the
end of 2018, though he continues to fly for the
collection. During 2019, he conducted test-flying of
the Historic Aircraft Collection’s DH9, and reports
on that process in this issue.
CHARLES BARRETT
Charles’s long-standing
fascination with aeroplanes
is the stu of family legend:
when his father was on a
hijacked airliner in the
1970s, Charles’s first
question — allegedly — was
to ask what aircraft he was
on. He has covered the
Lusophone world for
newswires since 1997. His favourite job involved
giving local radio tra c reports from the back seat
of a Cessna 172 during the Lisbon 1998 World
Expo, often darting over the April 25 Bridge and
the nearby Cristo Rei monument under the
glidepath of heavy tra c approaching runway 03 at
Lisbon Airport.
PETE LONDON
Pete is a former manager
with BAE Systems and
Finmeccanica. Now a full-
time writer, his interests
focus on British aviation
history. He has written for
aviation magazines since
1983 and is currently
researching the life of
aviator-designer John
Porte. Pete got the aero-bug as a six-year-old,
when his father took him to see two beached Saro
Princess flying-boats at Calshot. His other interests
include music and walking.
JOSÉ MATOS
ESTABLISHED 1911
José is an independent
researcher on military
history in Portugal and has
conducted research on the
operations of the
Portuguese Air Force in the
colonial war, mainly in
Guinea. He is a regular
contributor to European
magazines on military
aviation and naval subjects, and collaborated on
the Portuguese book
The Air Force at the End of
the Empire
(Ancora Editora, 2018). He worked with
Charles Barrett on their Guinea feature this month.
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