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The Aviation Historian
The modern journal of classic aeroplanes and the history of lying
®
FINEST HOUR
A salute to Richard T Riding
.
issue
27
Published quarterly by:
The Aviation Historian
PO Box 962
Horsham RH12 9PP
United Kingdom
Subscribe at:
www.theaviationhistorian.com
The Aviation Historian
The modern journal of classic aeroplanes and the history of lying
®
Editor’s Letter
IT WAS WITH profound shock and a deep sense of loss that
we learned in January of the death of our erstwhile colleague,
friend and “honorary grandfather” of
TAH,
Richard T. Riding.
Back in 1973, “Arty Ar” was the founding Editor of
pioneering UK aviation history magazine
Aeroplane Monthly,
where
TAH’s
Managing Editor Mick learned his trade as
Assistant Editor during 1983–98 before taking over the big
chair from Richard on the latter’s retirement, and where I was
schooled in the RTR ethos of “passion and precision” during
my rise through the ranks at
Aeroplane
through the 2000s.
Mick and I have always been proud to be able to trace our
editorial ancestry from Richard’s brilliant, mercurial piloting
of
Aeroplane,
through Mick’s stalwart stewardship of the same
during 1998–2010, to our establishment of
TAH
in 2012; a
venture of which Richard was immensely supportive, and to
which he readily gave his seal of approval. We hope to live up
to Richard’s high standards and continue the work that he
was so instrumental in establishing. Truly,
no RTR, no
TAH.
Farewell, guv.
BELOW
Four generations of British aviation Editors at Richard’s
home in August 2016. From left to right: Mike Ramsden
(Flight);
RTR
(Aeroplane);
Mick Oakey
(Aeroplane
and
TAH)
; Nick Stroud
(TAH).
ISSUE NUMBER 27
(published April 15, 2019)
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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EDITORIAL BOARD
Gregory Alegi, Dr David Baker, Ian Bott,
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
One of a series of magniicent colour photographs
taken by Richard Riding at Bovingdon during the making of the ilm
Battle of Britain
in November 1968. See pages 50–53 for more . . .
BACK COVER
Pre-production Concorde F-WTSA is prepared for a
test light. Our look at the type’s political genesis starts on page 10.
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CONTENTS
3
EDITOR’S LETTER
6
AIR CORRESPONDENCE
10
CONCORDE: INTERDEPENDENCE DAY
42
74
Issue No 27
Professor Keith Hayward FRAeS celebrates the 50th
anniversary of the irst light of the iconic supersonic
airliner with an in-depth look at its early political history
In 1957 the Argentinian Navy ferried 11 Vought F4Us from
the USA to their new home in South America. Santiago
Rivas describes the Corsairs’ epic intercontinental light
Designed by Willy Messerschmitt in Spain, powered by a
British engine and test-lown by an Indian pilot in Egypt,
the Hispano/Helwan HA-300 was a truly international
afair, as João Paulo Moralez and Nick Stroud relate
Managing Editor Mick Oakey pays tribute to
TAH’s
“honorary grandfather”, aviation publishing pioneer and
photographer Richard T. Riding, who died in January
20
SOUTH OF THE BORDER
30
FROM NILE EAGLE TO NASSER’S FOLLY
42
RICHARD T. RIDING
50
BATTLE OF BRITAIN
PHOTO GALLERY
106
In a further salute to Richard Riding, we present a
stunning collection of colour and black-and-white
photographs — most previously unpublished — taken by
Richard during the ilming of
Battle of Britain
in 1968
Bob Livingstone introduces a two-part series on Qantas
wartime Indian Ocean services with the early days of
route-proving with overloaded Catalina lying-boats
54
THE LONGEST HOP Part 1
62
MESSIEURS PAPIN ET ROUILLY’S ASTONISHING
WHIRLING LEAF
French aviation historian Jean-Christophe Carbonel
chronicles the eforts of two Frenchmen to develop a
rotary-engined single-bladed “gyroptère” in the 1910s
88
30
Using contemporary documents, letters and drawings,
Richard Seth-Smith investigates the causes of the Hawker
Typhoon’s mysterious early tail tribulations, which killed his
test-pilot father Kenneth in 1942, and how they were cured
Renowned airline specialist Maurice Wickstead delves into
the murky history of Bahamas World Airways, a nefarious
national airline set up by some real pirates of the Caribbean
Following the recent discovery by the Farnborough Air
Sciences Trust of a set of 1949 drawings of a wildly
ambitious supersonic variable-geometry ighter design,
Tony Buttler takes a look at the work of Leslie Baynes
74
BAD VIBRATIONS
88
ROGUES’ GALLERY
98
THE OLDEST SWINGER IN TOWN
106
SMOOTH OPERATOR
20
Lennart Andersson details the development and career of
the smooth-skinned Junkers K 47/A 48 ighter— a radical
departure for the “crinkle-cut” company in the mid-1920s
120
ARMCHAIR AVIATION
125
LOST & FOUND
126
DON’T SPARE THE HORSES!
Former McAlpine Aviation staf pilot Ed Wild recalls being
an aerial chaufeur for two famous British jockeys in the
1960s — one of which ofered some very valuable tips . . .
130
OFF THE BEATEN TRACK
Issue No 27
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