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EXCLUSIVE!
June 2021
Issue No 578,
Vol 49, No 6
JET PIONEER WHITTLE:
HIS SON’S MEMORIES
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NEWS AND
COMMENT
FROM THE EDITOR
NEWS
• Buchóns mass for BBC SAS drama
• Shuttleworth ‘Brisfit’ back in the air
• New BAHF C-54 flies
…and the month’s other top aircraft
preservation news
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WORKSHOP
The Northrop B 5 was once among the
Swedish Air Force’s most important
combat aircraft. Now, a complete
example is being reconstructed
18
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
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FOKKER F.XX
In an age when commercial aviation
was being transformed, how did
Fokker get its latest airliner o ering so
wrong?
66
AEROPLANE
MEETS…
CARL SCHOLL
More than 40 years of experience have
made this former car mechanic one of
the warbird world’s leading experts on
the B-25 Mitchell and other big twins
78
BOAC 747 INTRODUCTION
BOAC would have introduced the
Boeing 747 a year earlier than it did,
were it not for a dispute caused by the
giant new airliner
85
DATABASE: AVRO LANCASTRIAN
Very much a
product of the
austerity era,
this Lancaster
derivative was
the first aircraft
to operate from
the new London Airport.
Bruce Hales-Dutton
IN DEPTH
profiles an unlikely
PAGES
pioneer
FEATURES
28
FRANK WHITTLE
Eighty years on from the first flight of
a British jet aircraft, a revealing new
interview with Sir Frank Whittle’s son
Ian sheds new light on an aeronautical
genius
36
ATC GLIDING
In the Air Training Corps’ 80th
anniversary year, we look back to the
great wooden gliders on which so
many cadets had their first taste of
flight
44
VULCAN XH558
After the death of Vulcan to the Sky’s
guiding light, what does the future hold
for this beloved bomber?
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ALLISON MUSTANGS
Look past the received wisdom and
bust the myths, and the Allison-engined
North American Mustang becomes a
far more significant aeroplane
REGULARS
SKYWRITERS
Q&A
Your questions asked and answered
76
PERSONAL ALBUM
A fine portfolio of images from travels
in Papua New Guinea aboard a fleet of
veteran DC-3s
100
REVIEWS
The latest aviation books and products
assessed
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A DAY AT THE SHOW
In May 1989, RAF Wyton staged a
Canberra celebration to remember
COVER IMAGE:
The Collings Foundation’s North
American A-36 42-83738, marked as 86th Fighter
Bomber Group aircraft
Baby Carmen.
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e enjoy, it need hardly be
is was brought further to mind
said, a very broad range of
reading a letter from a reader, Simon
airshows in the UK — when Sanders, in response to a recent
things like pandemics don’t
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editorial. “I was interested
intervene, at least. While the number
in your comment that, ‘Most of our
of military events may have dwindled
aviation museums are running out of
space’” Simon wrote. “I know of a site
,
in comparison with the ‘glory days’
,
just north of Lincoln which is to become
the historic end of the spectrum has
reached heights hitherto unimaginable, vacant shortly. ere are three large
with Shuttleworth and IWM Duxford as buildings ideal for the storage of large
objects, plus a collection of others due
its most prominent trailblazers, while
to be vacant shortly. A small museum
free-to-attend seafront shows have
occupies half of one and is concerned
been the other signi cant growth area.
with aviation on the site. Historically it is
But look in more detail at the types of
a gem. Have you guessed yet? Yes, RAF
event contained in a regular season’s
Scampton.”
calendar, and one thing stands out: the
Scampton is, at present, due to
lack of large air eld-based shows, and
close “in late 2022” with the Red
,
by large I mean ‘bigger than Cosford or
Arrows moving to Waddington. A local
Duxford’ A good measure is provided
.
campaign seeks to preserve the site as
by the Red Arrows. At how many UK
a museum and heritage centre, with
venues can the audience now see the
opportunities for
RAF Aerobatic Team
operating from the
I can’t be alone in
businesses to move
in and retention of
show site? During
thinking Scampton
the working air eld.
the team’s 2019 UK
is would clearly
season, truncated
would make a
by an overseas tour,
be an expensive
undertaking,
this was the case
splendid venue
requiring an in-depth
only at the Royal
International Air Tattoo. In 2018, it
business plan and rm commitments.
happened at four: Yeovilton, RIAT,
Coming up with the vision is one thing,
Farnborough and Biggin Hill. By
making it reality quite another. But,
contrast, 2019 saw the Patrouille de
at the very least, I can’t be alone in
France operating from at least 10 of
thinking Scampton (which last hosted
their domestic venues alone.
an airshow in 2017) would make a
splendid venue for an event along the
In the past 10 years, aside from the
lines of the Paris-Villaroche Air Legend
loss of Waddington and Culdrose, we
shows staged at Melun-Villaroche,
have seen three large air eld events —
France, since 2018 — an historic-
Manston, Leeds East and Scampton —
be staged only once before disappearing, orientated, but not exclusively historic,
display at a large air eld venue imbued
plus the loss of Farnborough’s public
with tremendous heritage? And where
days and of Dunsfold. is sector of
better than a part of the country no
the industry, which had already been
longer over-served with major airshows,
in signi cant decline since the 1990s,
but where a love of aviation still looms
has now all but gone. e situation in
large? If any entrepreneurial organisers
France, for one, is very di erent, thanks
are reading this…
in part to funding sources from levels
of local and regional government that
Ben Dunnell
simply do not exist in the UK.
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.
CONTRIBUTORS THIS MONTH
ANDREW CRITCHELL
Introduced to airshows and
photography by his dad,
Andrew has been hooked
on all things aviation for as
long as he can remember.
Although his professional
life has taken him
elsewhere, he has
moonlighted at many an
airshow and museum. More recently, Andrew has
spent many hours researching and writing his first
book,
A Tale of Ten Spitfires.
A self-confessed
warbird enthusiast, he enjoys writing about
anything that flies with, or without, an engine!
BRUCE HALES-DUTTON
“When I joined the British
Airports Authority”, says
Bruce, “the public
corporation that operated
our major airports, we used
to say Heathrow was the
world’s premier
international airport. Such
a claim would have been
laughable in 1946, when it opened with tents and
duckboards for passengers about to board the
BSAA Avro Lancastrians bound for South
America. In 1970 the first Boeing 747 arrived, but
not for our long-haul flag-carrier whose
passengers had to wait for a year to enjoy its
comfort. Two fascinating stories, two decades
apart. Telling them has been great fun.”
NICHOLAS JONES
Nicholas is a film-maker
who produced the TV
documentary
Whittle —
The Jet Pioneer.
He has
made the study of Sir Frank
Whittle his life-long work
and feels honoured to
have known Britain’s
‘genius of the jet’ in his
later years. Nicholas also befriended Whittle’s son
Ian, with whom he works to preserve the legacy
of Sir Frank. From his many conversations with
Ian, Nicholas has discovered fascinating new
aspects to Frank and his work: it is these
revelations which inform his feature, starting on
page 28.
MATTHEW WILLIS
ESTABLISHED 1911
Matthew is more often
known for writing about
British naval aviation, the
more obscure the better, so
it may surprise some to see
him writing about the most
famous US fighter of World
War Two, if not all time, the
P-51 Mustang. This was
almost as much of a surprise to him, after what
started as a straightforward history of the early
variants turned into an all-consuming 10-year
project to document an often-misunderstood
subject. He is currently returning to the familiar
with a study of the Fairey Swordfish.
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