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EXCLUSIVE
November 2019
Issue No 559,
Vol 47, No 11
WW1 FIGHTERS COMPARED
TSR2
The hidden
history
HISTORY IN THE AIR SINCE 1911
NOVEMBER 2019
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SPECIAL REPORTS
• Life and death of C. W. A. Scott
• Weapons testbed Washingtons
DORNIER Do 17
In-depth history of
the ‘Flying Pencil’
Contents
November 2019
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NEWS AND
COMMENT
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FROM THE EDITOR
NEWS
• CASA and Whirlwind for Hawkinge
• Tu-2 to fly in Russia
• Indian museum Spitfire repainted
…and the month’s other top aircraft
preservation news
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WORKSHOP
Bringing the RAF Museum’s Lysander
back to special duties configuration
26
HANGAR TALK
Steve Slater’s comment on the historic
aircraft world
28
FLIGHT LINE
Reflections on aviation history with
Denis J. Calvert
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EVENTS
Reports from the Hahnweide, Melun,
Duxford and elsewhere
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NEXT MONTH
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WASHINGTON WEAPON TESTBEDS
The RAF Boeing B-29s that carried out
some highly secret Cold War guided
weapons research
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AEROPLANE
MEETS…
ØYVIND ELLINGSEN
A pioneer of the Norwegian vintage
aeroplane scene
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30 TSR2: SWING WINGS
Could the BAC strike jet have
emulated the F-111’s variable-geometry
configuration?
34 TSR2: FOLLOW ONS
Concepts for potential TSR2
successors took British manufacturers
into some very advanced areas
40
C. W. A. SCOTT
The man behind the inter-war records
48
TVAL ADVERSARIES
A pilot’s perspective on three pairs of
The Vintage Aviator Ltd’s World War
One reproductions
DATABASE:
DORNIER Do 17
DATA
BASE
World War Two
Luftwa e expert
DORNIER
Do 17
Chris Goss tells the
story of the ‘Flying
Pencil’, from fast
transport concept
to versatile combat
aircraft
IN DEPTH
DATABASE
DORNIER DO
17
Development
Development
Development
Technical Details
Technical Details
IN DEPTH
PAGES
FEATURES
IN SERVIC
E
From the
Spanish Civil
to the Russia
War, throug
n front, the
h
Do 17 made the Battle of Britain
its mark
A mass
flight over of Do 17Z-1s in
the summerFrance during
of 1940.
ALAMY
Developme
nt
Technical
Details
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Do 17Z-2 5K+AR, Werknummer
1160, of
and is believed to be the 7./KG 3 came down on the Goodwin Sands
on 26 August 1940,
example recovered by
the RAF Museum in 2013.
CHRIS
SANDHAM BAILEY
In Service
In Service
In Servic
e
Insights
Insights
Insights
WORDS:
CHRIS GOSS
Early days
8./KG 2 taxies out in the
Soviet Union during
July-September 1941.
The Do 17Z unit
returned to Germany
to convert to the Do 217
at the end of September
1941.
VIA CHRIS GOSS
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killed but
to convert
the
other crew
to the Do
members two
17E-1 were
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153 (I./
KG 153) and
obvious
that other
afterward I./KG 155. Soon
aircraft could
s,
a bigger bomb
(Fern)122 Aufklärungsgruppe
carry
((F)/122)
load, leaving
the Do 17
transition
began
for reconnai
ing to
duties, so
ssance
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during August
KG 155 went r of KG 153 and
1937
through the
process througho
KG 255 forming ut 1937, with
later.
It was obviou
In March
s that
other aircraf
of three Do 1937, the rst
17Es arrived
t could
in Spain
carry a bigger
to be part
of
Versuchs
load, leaving bomb
bomberg
ruppe 88
(VB/88),
ying a mix
for reconn the Do 17
types for
aissance
operation of aircraft
al testing
alongside
nationali
st forces
during the
Spanish Civil
elements
It is thought
War.
of
sent to Spain(F)/122 were
conducte that the Do 17
d its
to be part
reconnai
on 12 March, inaugural mission
of
ssance squadron
Aufklärun
rst loss on but su ered its
gssta
e Do 17F-1 el 88, or A/88.
an E-2 was 18 April when
Two KG
now began
replacing
155
Polikarpo shot down by
the Heinkel
Do 17Es,
v I-15 ghters
coded
well as starting
He 70
Spanish republica
of the
53+A25
to re-equip as
and
long-rang
n side.
53+C25,
all
e and
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on
range reconnai some short-
climb-out
ssance units
1937.
KEY
during
COLLECTION
and Spain
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ARCHIVE
Going air-to-air with Je rey Quill in
Spitfire AB910
COVER IMAGE:
BAC TSR2 XR220 of the RAF
Museum Cosford.
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