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The Aviation Historian
The modern journal of classic aeroplanes and the history of lying
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charming
Reject to
snake
the
Soviet hero
AIRACOBRA:
FROM RAF
ISSUE
30
Published quarterly by:
The Aviation Historian
PO Box 962
Horsham RH12 9PP
United Kingdom
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The Aviation Historian
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®
Editor’s Letter
FIRST, A VERY happy new year to all our readers — from
longstanding
TAH
veterans who have been with us since the
beginning, to those who have joined us more recently.
Without your support, involvement and encouragement, we
simply couldn’t continue to provide the most in-depth,
wide-ranging and (we hope) entertaining and informative
material available in the ield of aviation history.
It is with a pleasing symmetry of round numbers that we
launch into 2020 with Issue No 30 (despite it containing a
decidedly non-symmetrical 13 main features!). A more
unfortunate round number addressed within this issue is the
50th anniversary of the inal collapse of the once-unassailable
Handley Page company, which, after more than a decade of
resistance to “industry rationalisation” — or government
meddling, depending on your perspective — inally ceased
trading under Sir Frederick’s name in March 1970. Starting on
page 10, Prof Keith Hayward FRAeS does his usual sterling
job of mining the archives for irst-hand accounts of a battle
for the heart and soul of Britain’s post-war aircraft industry.
On the subject of pioneers, this issue also sees the launch of
a new series on France’s early aviation personalities, those
“hommes
(often not so)
magniiques”,
who risked their necks,
inancially and literally, to pursue their passion to unlock the
secrets of aerial navigation. In the irst part of his series in this
issue, French aviation historian Jean-Christophe Carbonel
takes a look at the work of Antoine Filippi, inventor of the
“Cyrnos” rotating wing in 1906. It ultimately proved to be a
dead end, but the story of Filippi (and his equally determined
countrymen) is charmingly representative of France’s
époque
de l’aviation héroïque
— a hot-house of imaginative, if not
always innovative, thinking. I hope you enjoy the series.
Before we head into the issue, another quick reminder
about the
TAH
index, the key to all 30 issues, available as a
completely FREE PDF download on the
TAH
website
— just
look for the “Index” tab on www.theaviationhistorian.com.
ISSUE NUMBER 30
(published January 15, 2020)
EDITOR
Nick Stroud
e-mail nickstroud@theaviationhistorian.com
MANAGING EDITOR
Mick Oakey
e-mail mickoakey@theaviationhistorian.com
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Amanda Stroud
FINANCE MANAGER
Lynn Oakey
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Robert Forsyth, Juanita Franzi, Dr Richard
P. Hallion, Philip Jarrett HonCRAeS,
Colin A. Owers, David H. Stringer,
Julian Temple, Capt Dacre Watson
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FRONT COVER
Bell P-39 Airacobra Mk I AH621 was one of many
rejected by the RAF and sent to ight with the Soviet Air Force. See
page 18 for Dan Zamansky’s article on why.
PHILIP JARRETT COLLECTION
MADE IN BRITAIN
BACK COVER
The Tupolev Tu-104A was known as the “Brontosaurus”
in Czechoslovakian service. See pages 50–61.
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THE AVIATION HISTORIAN
Issue No 30
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CONTENTS
3
EDITOR’S LETTER
6
AIR CORRESPONDENCE
10
DECLINE & FALL
18
84
Issue No 30
Professor Keith Hayward FRAeS continues his series on
the political aspects of Britain’s post-war aircraft industry
with a look at the demise of the once-mighty Handley Page
18
AIRACOBRA: HERO OF THE SOVIET UNION
The British dismissed it; the Americans tolerated it; the
Soviets, however, loved it. Dan Zamansky explains how
the Bell P-39 found a new lease of life on the Eastern Front
30
IRAN’S WEASEL DIESELS
Iranian aviation historian Babak Taghvaee chronicles the
long career of the F-4D “Diesel” Phantom in Iran, several
of which were converted into anti-SAM “Wild Weasels”
40
CES HOMMES MAGNIFIQUES:
A.P FILIPPI
.
In the irst of a new series on France’s early aeronautical
personalities, Jean-Christophe Carbonel explores the
work of Antoine Filippi, inventor of the “Cyrnos” rotary wing
50
OK-JET! THE Tu-104A IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA
100
Miroslav Jindra traces the history of the Tupolev Tu-104A
jetliner in service with Czechoslovakia’s national airline ČSA
62
FROM FLYING TO SPYING: PART 1
By the late 1930s Japan was increasingly showing interest
in Portuguese Timor, only 400 miles north-west of Darwin;
Phil Vabre reveals how Australia’s DCA kept a watchful eye
74
NATTJAKT!
In 1953 the de Havilland Venom entered service with
Sweden’s
Flygvapnet;
Jan Forsgren proiles the career of
the J 33, as it was designated in Swedish service . . .
81
WHISTLING IN THE DARK
. . . followed by former Flygvapnet J 33 pilot Bengt
“Kävlinge” Lindwall’s recollections of what the distinctive
twin-boomed nightighter was like to ly
122
10
84
THE USAAF’S MEDITERRANEAN FERRETS
Electronic countermeasures specialist Bill Cahill details
the 16th RS’s use of Boeing B-17s as German-radar-
hunting “Ferrets” in the Mediterranean during WW2
96
REFLECTIONS ON A TRAGEDY
When we misidentiied a Fleet Air Arm pilot recently, his
son, Peter Lavender, got in touch to tell us the story of his
father’s post-war lying career — and tragic untimely death
100
SPIRIT OF AUSTRALIA
Australian civil aviation historian Neil Follett surveys the
(mainly short) lives of the four handsome Ryan B.1
Broughams imported into Australia during the late 1920s
108
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
50
With the help of contemporary brochures and data, Tony
Buttler describes Armstrong Whitworth’s AW.58 series of
supersonic research designs, ultimately beaten to the
hardware stage by English Electric’s P.1 and Fairey’s F.D.2
116
ARMCHAIR AVIATION
121
LOST & FOUND
122
SAY CHEESE! PART 2
Ed Wild FRAeS concludes his two-part series on lying
overseas for Hunting Surveys Ltd with another DC-3
expedition; this time a trip to Africa during 1959–60
130
OFF THE BEATEN TRACK
Issue No 30
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