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UNDER THE SKIN
HAWKER TYPHOON REBUILD LATEST
July 2020
Issue No 567,
Vol 48,
No 7
HISTORY IN THE AIR SINCE 1911
RAY HANNA
Remembering his
warbird mastery
EXCLUSIVE REPORT
COLIN
CHAPMAN
The Lotus
founder’s
flying days
MERLIN
a
HEINKEL
The inside story of legendary warbird
FIT FOR A KING
The 1935 RAF Review
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Contents
July 2020
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26-27
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40
45
64
72
NEWS AND
COMMENT
FROM THE EDITOR
NEWS
• Bearcat flies at Chino
• PR Spitfire salutes the NHS
• Meteor T7 sold to Planes of Fame
…and the month’s other top aircraft
preservation news
14
WORKSHOP
Latest insights into the return to flight
of Hawker Typhoon RB396
18
HANGAR TALK
Steve Slater’s comment on the historic
aircraft world
20
FLIGHT LINE
Reflections on aviation history with
Matthew Willis
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6
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FEATURES
28
RAY HANNA
Fifty years ago, the great New
Zealander flew Spitfire IX MH434
for the first time, and created a
very special bond between man
and machine. Friends, family and
colleagues discuss what made him
perhaps the greatest warbird display
pilot of all time
40
SWEDISH CANBERRAS
The English Electric twin-jet’s little-
known Flygvapnet service
45
1935 RAF REVIEW
We look back 85 years to the first
ever royal review of the RAF, aided
by period accounts, images and
documents
57
CASA 2.111
The challenges of flying the
Confederate Air Force’s much-missed
example of the Merlin-engined,
Spanish-built Heinkel He 111
64
COLIN CHAPMAN’S AIRCRAFT
The Lotus Cars founder used aircraft
as a means of personal and corporate
transport, but also wanted to
revolutionise the microlight world
See
page
56 for
details
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AEROPLANE
MEETS… PETER HOAR
He flew with many great figures, but
this stalwart of the 1970s and ’80s
historic aircraft scene made quite a
name for himself, too
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SHANGHAI Y 10
Why China’s much-vaunted new four-
jet airliner was already out of date
when it took to the air
INSIGHTS
COLLECTION
H-12 serial
becoming 8670 on the cusp
machine fully airborne. This of
was reported
attacked
as having
a U-boat
on 18 November o the Needles
1917.
KEY
Period impress
ions of piloting
the H-12
with the RNAS
Development
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DATABASE: CURTISS H 12
When the Royal Naval Air
Service of the First World
War wanted an e ective
new waterborne aircraft,
it looked to an American
manufacturer, as Pete
London finds out
Technical
Details
N
DATA
BASE
DATABASE
KAWANISHI
CHRIS SANDHAM BAILEY
N1K1 SHIDEN AND N1K2
Development
Development
A rendering of a decidedly
weathered H-12B, N4337,
sporting the ‘C’ station
identifier for its Calshot
base.
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gunned for
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attacked
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trouble”
gave a lot
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limitation .
Flt Cdr Gerald step.”
. At
of
became better: H-4s. But things
also
reinforcing Tresco, despite his
Edward Livock
ew the type
1916 improved “In the fall of
work
from Yarmouth.
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bigger ying and very much
durable than after boats more
IN DEPT
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arrive.”
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tail.
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stern attacks.
to sink, but
threatened
was
mentioned
enthusiasti
Bolton
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c.
Like Bolton
“inability too the H-12’s
paper Capt In a post-war
beached
to rise
H-12 […] he recalled, “ e
e structural and saved.
water without from rough
formerly
David Nicolson,
proved
problem
an RNAS
centred on
great risk
better general to have a far
damage,
o
assigned
of
as the […]
to oversee cer
of a exible the combination
than anything performance
bottom was
and inspection
production
hull
planing bottom. and a rigid
date. However,we had at that
of ying boats,
remarked,
the hull bottoms
is created
strain around
almost certainly
of the H-12,
the step,
could lead
imported “[they were]…
to serious which
in
collapse
numbers, considerable
but… [were]
owing to
weak
a lack
in the structuralof continuity
design,
and frequent
damages
reported,
until Lt Cdr were
James Jean]
[Ralph
in commandHope-Vere (then
Air Station of the Royal Naval
at
these boats the Scillies, where
were kept
at moorings)
a oat
sti ened
bottoms
up the
with bent
timbers and
stringers.”
In his post-war
of the Felixstowe reminiscen
ces
and Yarmouth
stations,
Capt A.
noted drawbacksE. Bolton too
: “ e H-12
[…] although
WORDS:
PETE LONDON
aerial weapona wonderful
[…] was under-
A close-up
In Service
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Insights
glazing.
of an H-12B’s
cockpit,
The main
showing
starboard
glass panel the large starboard-m
has been
ounted control
discarded.
VIA PETE LONDON
Unarmed US Navy H-12B
BuNo
A-767 at speed while
serving
Naval Air Station Pensacola, at
Florida,
on 24 November 1918.
A-767 was
finally deleted in July
1919.
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these circumstances, it would be
here is a very real risk that
easy to accuse museums of ‘special
the UK’s aviation heritage
pleading’ but they are absolutely
,
landscape will su er serious
justi ed in doing so, just as are
and irreparable damage as
theatres, concert venues and the like.
a result of the coronavirus outbreak,
It is not unduly melodramatic to say
unless the government acts — and
that much of the heritage sector’s
acts fast. at was the stark message
future is at stake. And while museums
of a submission by Aviation Heritage
may not be vital in public service or
UK to the Department for Culture,
infrastructure terms, they must be
Media and Sport during mid-May,
classed as signi cant national assets.
which made it clear that some large,
Historically, educationally, socially
well-established institutions such as
and, yes, economically, they play
the Brooklands Museum, Aerospace
their part in the life of the country. To
Bristol and Stow Maries Great War
abandon them — and to ignore the
Aerodrome are in urgent need of
particular issues aviation museums
further support if they are to avoid
simply running out of money in a few are experiencing — would be to
perform a great disservice.
months’ time.
ere is something of an irony in
As mainland European museums
the three museums cited speci cally
began, cautiously, to reopen as May
by AHUK as being
went on, the UK
was in no position
To ignore the specific
in particular
danger having all
to do so. Whatever
issues aviation museums
received major
the underlying
National Lottery
reasons, the result
are experiencing would
grants with the
is obvious: a
do the sector a great
development
prolonged period
of educational
of closure, with
disservice
programmes
little or no income,
high on the agenda. If they and
and all the consequences that brings.
other institutions like them cannot
It’s not just aviation museums that
be saved, what does it say about the
are a ected, of course. e whole
value placed on our heritage? At a
of the heritage sector faces similar
time when historical comparisons
worries. But the large premises often
have often — for good or ill — been
required to house aircraft exhibits
invoked in discussing the ght against
make some collections ineligible
the coronavirus, there is a need to
for certain funding streams, which
pay more than just lip service to the
are dependent on the rateable value
concerns being expressed by those
of their premises. Above a certain
organisations that seek actively
rateable value, they lose out.
Several aviation museums have found to open a window on the past, to
increase historical knowledge and
themselves in exactly this unenviable
appreciation, and to educate new
position.
generations. Without them, the UK
ere will be many competing
would be much the poorer.
demands on the public purse in
the aftermath of COVID-19 and
Ben Dunnell
the economic damage it wreaks. In
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.
T
Editor
From the
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CONTRIBUTORS THIS MONTH
GEORGE COLCLOUGH
George is an armaments
specialist and researcher
who primarily focuses on
Asian conflicts and
weapons proliferation, but
covers topics from across
the aerospace and defence
industry. He has contributed
to journals and newspapers,
and is currently completing
his first book. His debut
feature for
Aeroplane
looks at the troubled history
of China’s Shanghai Y-10 airliner.
JEANNE FRAZER
In company with some
other flying display
directors, Jeanne
consistently turned a blind
eye to Ray Hanna’s
signature low passes,
knowing the only people
alarmed by them were CAA
inspectors. She takes the
view that if an experienced
eye finds a displaying
aircraft comfortable to watch at whatever height,
that translates invisibly into there being su cient
energy and accuracy of track to accomplish the
manoeuvre; hence there isn’t a safety question,
which is what ultimately counts when it comes to
displaying for the public.
PETE LONDON
Pete is a former manager
with BAE Systems and
Finmeccanica. He’s been
fascinated by aviation since
he was a child, when his
father took him to see an
abandoned Princess flying
boat. Now a full-time writer,
Pete’s interests include
early flying and waterborne
aircraft, so the chance to
contribute our Database on the Curtiss H-12 was
particularly welcome. Other enthusiasms include
music — he enjoys playing his bouzoukis and
mandolas — as well as countryside walking in
beautiful Cornwall.
IAN WAGSTAFF
ESTABLISHED 1911
Ian is a freelance journalist
and the award-winning
author of 16 books on
motorsport. Three of them
specifically concern Colin
Chapman’s iconic Lotus
racing cars, including the
late Stirling Moss’s 1961
Monaco Grand Prix winner.
A former press o cer at
Silverstone circuit, he has,
over nearly 50 years, written about the automotive
industry and on motor racing for a wide range of
outlets from
Autosport
to the
Economist
Intelligence Unit.
Ian is a committee member of the
Guild of Motoring Writers.
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