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(published July 15, 2019)
Editor’s Letter
EXACTLY 50 YEARS ago, on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong
took his “one giant leap for mankind”, stepping from the
ladder of the Apollo Lunar Module
Eagle
on to the surface of
the Moon. It had been a long, hard struggle to get there, with
numerous triumphs — and tragedies — along the way. Such
a venture was not just a technological hardware challenge,
however; the aeromedical aspects of being launched vertically
motor generating more than 9,000,000lb of thrust were
equally daunting. Fortunately for NASA, much of the work
on the effects of vertical launching on the human body had
been undertaken during the Second World War by German
engineer Erich Bachem, whose rocket-powered Ba 349 Natter
laid the foundation for all subsequent vertically-launched
air- and spacecraft. As Dr Brett Gooden, Lecturer in Space
Medicine at the University of South Australia, explains in his
article on the aeromedical challenges facing Bachem (page
80), the weak link in the operation was the soft, organic part
— the pilot — and his ability to withstand the then-largely-
unknown forces that would be brought to bear on his body.
Meanwhile, as Armstrong was taking his “one small step”,
decisions were being made much closer to home about the
future of air travel, with the French Minister of Transport,
Jean Chamant, and the German Minister of Economic Affairs,
Karl Schiller, signing an agreement in Paris in June 1969 for
the international conglomerate’s wildly successful series of
world-class airliners. A cloud drifted over the manufacturer’s
50th birthday celebrations this year, however, when it was
announced in February that production of its A380 double-
decker was to cease — a development described as a “coming
of age” by Professor Keith Hayward in his examination of the
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company’s early political evolution, which begins on page 10.
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Through struggle to the stars indeed. A very warm welcome
to our 28th issue; I hope you enjoy it — and learn from it —
as much as I did while working on it!
Nick Stroud
e-mail nickstroud@theaviationhistorian.com
Mick Oakey
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2019
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FRONT COVER
A Dassault Mirage IIIRS “Amir” blasts through the
Fliegerstaffel 10.
BACK COVER
CONTENTS
Professor Keith Hayward FRAeS takes a fresh look at the
political genesis of the international Airbus conglomerate
and its purely British rival, the BAC Three-Eleven
With the help of contemporary documents and drawings,
huge DC-4E airliner and its smaller brother, the DC-4/C-54
According to myth, the sole Vought V-100 Corsair Junior
the biplane to Brazil, where it had an all-too-brief career
Peter Lewis chronicles the history of the Dassault Mirage
IIIRS photo-recce variant in service with the Swiss Air
Force’s
— the low-level lone wolves
Concluding his two-part series on Qantas’s wartime Indian
Ocean services, Bob Livingstone details the introduction
of Liberators and Lancastrians on the “Longest Hop”
the pre-Great War era through to the beginning of WW2
forged a special relationship with Lockheed’s Constellation,
Space Medicine specialist Dr Brett Gooden describes the
daunting aeromedical challenges facing Erich Bachem and
the pilots of his vertically-launched rocket-powered Natter
In October 1946 three Auster Autocrats departed Lympne,
owners in Southern Rhodesia, relates Peter Le Blanc Smith
While researching his book on the type in 2015, Matthew
Willis acquired a series of photographs showing a Fairey
Italian aviation historian Gregory Alegi pieces together the
Continuing his occasional series on the naming of aircraft
in British service, Chris Gibson digs into the archives to
helicopters acquired their (more French than Anglo) names
Viscounts on BEA routes across the UK, as well as to

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