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SOUVENIR ANNIVERSARY ISSUE
July 2021
Issue No 579,
Vol 49, No 7
The controversies
The characters
The stories
YEARS OF THE
WORLD’S BEST
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Contents
July 2021
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NEWS AND
COMMENT
FROM THE EDITOR
NEWS
• John Smith Mosquito and P-40 on
show at Omaka
• Westland Widgeon to fly again
• Hawkinge Blenheim gets nose
• Night scheme for BBMF Hurricane
…and the month’s other top aircraft
preservation news
18
HANGAR TALK
Steve Slater’s comment on the historic
aircraft world
20
FLIGHT LINE
Reflections on aviation history with
Denis J. Calvert
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FEATURES
Marking the 80th anniversary of the de
Havilland legend’s entry into service
28
MOSQUITO PRI
The story of the first operational
Mosquito variant, the missions it flew
and the airframe histories
36
PATHFINDER NAVIGATOR
Fg O Kenneth Oatley recalls his time
on No 627 Squadron as the war in
Europe drew to a close
42
ROYAL NAVY ‘MOSSIES’
The late Basil Nash brings us a first-
hand account of flying the Mosquito in
the Fleet Air Arm
46
LAST ISRAELI OPERATIONS
It fell to the Israeli Air Force to
conduct the Mosquito’s last front-line
operational sorties
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78
PERMAN PARASOL
Artist, London Underground map
designer, aircraft-builder — E. G. Perman
proved himself quite the polymath
PIAGGIO P108
It was Italy’s attempt at building a
Flying Fortress, but it didn’t enjoy
anything like the same renown
AEROPLANE
MEETS…
SIR CHARLES MASEFIELD
Helping pioneer the UK warbird
movement with his P-51 Mustang was
just one achievement in a rich aviation
career
MOSQUITO SALUTE
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REGULARS
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SKYWRITERS
Q&A
Your questions asked and answered
BRIEFING FILE
Under the skin of aviation technology
and tactics — in a special edition
this month, we examine how Britain
prepared its air defence system for the
onset of renewed war with Germany
REVIEWS
The latest aviation books assessed
EVENTS
Action from Shuttleworth’s and
Duxford’s season-openers
NEXT MONTH
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‘CACTUS STAFFEL’ F 104s
Learning to fly Lockheed’s fabulous
Starfighter as a German Navy trainee
pilot in Arizona
60
HARRIET QUIMBY
The first woman to hold a US pilot’s
licence was a person of great
achievement outside the aviation
world, too
68
JAGUAR M
Why the naval variant of the SEPECAT
Jaguar was the only flying derivative
of this outstanding strike jet not to
succeed
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DATABASE:
THE AEROPLANE
It’s 110 years since
the first edition
of a new weekly
aviation magazine
appeared. Arthur
W. J. G. Ord-Hume, whose
link to the publication goes
IN DEPTH
PAGES
back further than most, tells
the story of
The Aeroplane,
its stories and personalities, aided
by Matthew Willis, Ben Dunnell and
Michael J. F. Bowyer
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126
A DAY AT THE SHOW
Hendon’s last airshow hurrah — the
Daily Express
50 Years of Flying event
COVER IMAGE:
A very fine — specially colourised
— late-1942 image of two then-new Mosquito
BIVs, DZ353 and DZ367, from No 105 Squadron at
Marham.
AEROPLANE,
COLOURISED BY RICHARD JAMES MOLLOY
AEROPLANE
JULY 2021
www.Key.Aero
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Editor
“
From the
CONNECT WITH
AEROPLANE…
www.facebook.com/AeroplaneMonthly
@HistoryInTheAir
nce in a while, it’s time for
some of
e Aeroplane’s
legendary
a magazine to celebrate
names, the stories they broke and
— and, for
Aeroplane,
this
the controversies they sometimes
is one of those months. It
provoked. And no
Aeroplane
was in June 1911 that the rst edition
celebration would be complete
of a new weekly,
e Aeroplane,
without a good dose of Wren’s
made its appearance. In so doing,
‘Oddenti cations’ or the splendid
,
it’s no exaggeration to state that
imagery that we can do better justice
it revolutionised the way aviation
to on modern paper than was ever
was reported. Always opinionated,
possible in period!
sometimes waspish, the Temple Press
We’ve carried the theme through into
publication soon started getting under some of our other regular articles, too.
the skin of industry and politicians
Our ‘Aeroplane meets’ interview is with
alike. Sometimes its views carried
Sir Charles Mase eld, long-distance
much weight and continue to resonate DH Dragon y yer and Britain’s rst
down the years. On other occasions
private P-51 Mustang owner — and son
they were desperately
of Sir Peter Mase eld,
wide of the mark.
that leading light of
Its long-time
British aviation, who
e Aeroplane
editor, C. G. Grey,
was
e Aeroplane’s
was always required
technical editor from
could be wilfully
o ensive, to put it
1939-43. ‘A Day at
reading
very mildly, allowing
the Show’ revisits the
his considerable
Daily Express
50 Years
personal prejudices on unrelated
of Flying event at Hendon in 1951,
matters to taint his written output
which celebrated the Royal Aero Club’s
in ways that can be decidedly
rst half-century. What’s the link there?
uncomfortable. But
e Aeroplane
was Well, on the back cover of the souvenir
always required reading.
programme is a striking advert
As Arthur Ord-Hume writes inside,
heralding ‘40 Years of
e Aeroplane’
.
those archive issues today represent
ese things have forever been worth
an immense historical resource.
celebrating.
at’s one reason why, to mark this
110th anniversary, we decided to
A quick note to our subscribers:
give our monthly Database feature
you’ll receive your free copy of our
over to a detailed examination of this
2020 Index with the August issue. If
magazine’s weekly ancestor; how
you’d like to take advantage of this
it came about, how it grew, how it
bene t, or the other o ers we’ve got
carried on publishing from the heart
going, have a look at our great-value
of London even as bombs fell all
subs deals on pages 26-27.
around, how it met its end. Along the
way, Arthur and other authors recall
Ben Dunnell
CONTRIBUTORS THIS MONTH
BASIL NASH
The late Basil Nash, who
died in December 2020
aged 95, became a
midshipman in the Royal
Navy Reserve in January
1944 and went to Canada
for flying training. Back in
the UK from March 1945, he
joined a Corsair squadron
that was rapidly disbanded with the war’s end.
Basil carried on flying under a short service
commission, logging time in most then-current
Fleet Air Arm types as a ferry pilot and unit test
pilot. He was demobbed in 1950, bringing his flying
career to a close.
ARTHUR W. J. G. ORD-HUME
”
Given that he believes he
bought his first issue of
The
Aeroplane
in 1941, and was
certainly a regular reader
by 1942, who better than
Arthur to head up
compilation of this month’s
110th anniversary
Database? “As a
schoolboy”, he says, “my money went on a strange
mixture of periodicals —
The Aeroplane
and the
comics
Magic
and
Dandy.
I remember being very
distressed when, in 1941,
Magic
stopped
production because it could no longer obtain a
paper quota. I was glad to rely on
The Aeroplane
for a more intelligent input…”
ROLF STÜNKEL
Now 67, Rolf — a native of
Hildesheim — joined the
German Navy at the age of
18. After o cer’s training,
sea duty, fighter pilot
training in the USA and
Britain, and years on the
Starfighter and Tornado fast
jets, he joined Lufthansa
and flew long-haul as an Airbus captain until
retirement. The father-of-seven now runs seminars
on relaxed flying and works as an instructor pilot
and an author for aviation, naval and military history
magazines. His latest book,
Mach 2 — Flying the
F-104 Starfighter,
is published by tredition Verlag.
IAN THIRSK
ESTABLISHED 1911
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.
Recently retired as head of
collections and research at
the Royal Air Force
Museum, Ian maintains a
lifelong interest in aviation
history. In June 2013 Ian led
the RAFM’s Goodwin Sands
Do 17 recovery project and
he has been responsible for
other notable RAFM aircraft acquisitions in recent
years, including the Hercules, Harrier GR9A, VC10
C1K and Predator drone. A self-confessed devotee
of the Mosquito, Ian has been a voluntary member
of the Mosquito restoration team at what is now
the de Havilland Aircraft Museum for more than 40
years.
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AEROPLANE
JULY 2021

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