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EXCLUSIVE
What now for the unique Desford?
March 2021
Issue No 575,
Vol 49, No 3
TSR2
SPECIAL REPORTS
Was it wrong for the RAF?
Did Australia deal the
fatal blow?
THE BIG QUESTIONS…
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Tales of parachuting
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The Air Transport
Auxiliary’s final flourish
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Expert analysis of the
historic aircraft business
WARBIRD MARKET
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March 2021
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NEWS AND
COMMENT
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FROM THE EDITOR
NEWS
• NZ Mosquito project roars ahead
• Forty-ops Spitfire XVI airborne
• Burnelli Loadmaster goes on display
…and the month’s other top aircraft
preservation news
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WORKSHOP
Now it’s been returned to flying
condition, what’s going to happen
to the one and only Reid and Sigrist
Desford?
20
HANGAR TALK
Steve Slater’s comment on the historic
aircraft world
22
FLIGHT LINE
Reflections on aviation history with
Denis J. Calvert
FEATURES
30
THE ‘BIG THREE’
AND THE RAF’S FUTURE
Had the TSR2, P1154 and AW/HS681
not been cancelled, how would they
have fitted into Britain’s changing
defence posture?
40
AUSTRALIA AND THE TSR2
Did the Royal Australian Air Force
really want to buy the TSR2 — and
would a deal have rescued the
programme?
48
RAF F 111 PILOT
Lots of RAF pilots should have flown
the F-111 — in the end, just a few did.
We talk to the last
CANADIAN P 40s IN THE
ALEUTIANS
Some of World War Two’s coldest-
weather fighter ops, and a unique
event in RCAF history
60
PARACHUTING RAPIDES
Colourful tales of using the de
Havilland classic as a sport
parachuting jump platform
72
WARBIRD MARKET
Insights from the founders of the
recently established TASC Vintage
78
POLAR PIONEER
How an Englishman called Giles
Kershaw, and an ageing DC-4, opened
up Antarctica to commercial aviation
84
BEAGLE PUP
Restoring the first of a famous British
light aircraft breed
92
AEROPLANE
MEETS…
DAVE HARVEY
The Hurricane looms largest in his
warbird experiences, but this ex-RAF
pilot has flown multiple generations of
fighter, from biplanes to Tornado F3
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DATABASE: AVRO TUTOR
AND CADET
DATA
BASE
James Kightly brings
us one of the most
AVRO TUTOR
& CADET
detailed run-downs
of this charming
biplane trainer
family’s history
IN DEPTH
DATAFIL
E
Avro 626
NZ203
during its
brief
of airworthines period
s, from
1985-87,
with the
RNZAF
Historic
Flight.
RNZAF
DATABASE
AVRO
TUTOR &
CADET
Development
REGULARS
SKYWRITERS
Q&A
Your questions asked and answered
100
BRIEFING FILE
Looking under the skin at aviation
technology and tactics — in this case,
the ultra-e cient Napier Nomad
diesel/turbine compound engine
120
REVIEWS
The latest aviation books and products
assessed
130
NEXT MONTH
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Technical
Details
IN DEPTH
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G-AHSA,
Avro 638 Club Cadet
K3215, of
G-ACHO
Collection.
the Shuttleworth
served with the Airwork
Originally
School
of Flying.
CHRIS SANDHAM BAILEY
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WORDS:
JAMES KIGHTLY
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he sole surviving
Tutor is
originally
since purchase
in an overall
as K3215,
the RAF
operated
yellow
College Cranwell
it appeared
at
it was used
in 2006
in new fabric scheme
Wigram before
as ‘K3241’,
for communica and the
during World
and paint
sporting
the CFS
retirement
tions duties
display in
the colours
aerobatic
to museum
1946 by John War Two, and was
1987.
team.
of
Likewise,
bought in
static
Two Avro
just
District Aero Neasham of the
631s and
extant: NZ203, one example
Darlington
Club, the
survive.
a number
of the 626
owners.
&
first of three
The Irish
of 643s
is
New Zealand, in the Air Force
The
private
was a replacemenAir Corps’ 631
Museum
Heywood. last was Wg Cdr
and
serial C7
of
oldest complete commemora
Gordon
After
t obtained
registered
filming
Reach
a crankshaft
in 1934, and
RNZAF aircraft.ted as the
EI-AFO by
during 1935,
failure while
for
Restored
a civil owner
Delivered
by Shuttleworth
the Sky,
it was
Sky
in
static training
in 1943 it was designated
in 1940.
purchased
airworthy the UK and New
flying condition. in 1959 and restored
airframe,
Zealand,
Cadet was
as a
was sold
but
the
governmen
returned
G-AHSA
to a Mr Frogley five years later
from Old
to Irish
has been to
t ownership
ZK-APC,
Warden
to date having
operated
ceasing flying and registered it
in 2007,
engine rebuilds ever since,
as
purchased
in 1957. It
Ralph James, been made by its last flight
in the 1970s with major
by the museum
was
Maj Gen
restored
and ’90s.
in 1981 and
for operations,the IAC’s deputy
to fly again,
Flown
chief of staff
1985 and
taking to
and retired
Gavin, who
joining the
the air
is also Dublin’s Comdt Jim
RNZAF Historic in July
manager!
Gaelic football
Flight at
It is
at Baldonnel. preserved in the
IAC museum
The sole
Portugal
for evaluation 631 acquired by
survivor,
is a surprising
in the
A number Museu do Ar at
Sintra.
include threeof 643 MkII Cadets
A6-8/VH-AE that are airworthy: in Australia
J in pre-war
Darryl Hill’s
and Clin
aluminium
Ashton-Mar
dope,
VH-AGH
tin’s very
in a wartime
original A6-17/
a ‘set’ of
scheme.
colours,
Completing
the Jacobs-pow
VH-AFX,
formerly
A6-12, owned ered
Jones is
in a Hardy
by Howard
Brothers
scheme.
agricultural
Jones
In its later
frames. A6-34 also owns several
wartime
colours,
project
is preserved
Clin Ashton-Mart
with the
on static
RAAF
in’s Cadet
display
Kermit Weeks Museum at Point
departs Echuca,
Cook, and
has another
Victoria.
example
ex-RAAF
JAMES KIGHTLY
in Florida,
formerly
VH-PRV.
registered
EI-ALP/G-AD
extant, and
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A beautiful study of Tutor
K3225 from the Duxford-
based Cambridge University
Air Squadron.
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Your Aviation Destination
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page 65
for
details
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A DAY AT THE SHOW
Saying a public farewell to the Air
Transport Auxiliary, not long after the
war was over
COVER IMAGE:
A striking illustration of a pair of TSR2s
operated by No 12 Squadron, RAF.
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hould the one-o Reid and
best possible destination for Reid and
Sigrist Desford y again?
Sigrist’s creation whenever its ying
Of course, there’s no right
career ends. Not for nothing does
or wrong answer. To see
this museum’s name almost always
the images of this unmistakeable
arise when a signi cant aircraft is
aeroplane airborne from Spanhoe
up for grabs, such is its professional
following restoration, as featured in our track record. Often these potential
Workshop article, certainly whets my
acquisitions are outside Newark’s remit
appetite. Others aren’t so sure, citing
or less than practical. Neither is true of
its uniqueness. I can see both sides of
the Desford.
the argument, while leaning towards
Steve Slater’s view as outlined in last
Prone-pilot development aircraft
month’s Hangar Talk column. Steve
have been somewhat in the news lately
feels that, given the e ort and expense
— not just the Desford but also the
put into the Desford’s return to ight by Meteor, WK935, which turned up on the
Windmill Aviation, its airworthy career
RAF Museum’s much-debated putative
should not be truncated. I concur, not
disposals list. Last month, therefore, we
least on the sel sh grounds that I’m not thought it an ideal opportunity to run
senior enough to have seen G-AGOS in
Hugh Field’s piece on ying it from the
the air when it was active in the 1970s,
prone position. It was with immense
and would like to do so. Perhaps a
sadness that, just after publication, we
time-limited ying
heard of Hugh’s
career — one or
death in early
Perhaps a time-
two seasons, maybe
January aged 91.
limited flying career is
— represents the
Following his
best compromise
career in the RAF,
the best compromise?
option?
which included
As we reported in the February issue, graduation from the Empire Test Pilots’
the aircraft’s owner, Leicestershire
School, he worked successively for
County Council, decided on 15
CSE Aviation,
Flight International
and
December to halt its transfer to the
BAe, in the latter case as head of public
Newark Air Museum — a move
relations for the 146. Hugh was also
announced just a week prior. e
involved in ight-testing the Edgley
opportunity to debate the issue was
Optica, and regularly displayed the
welcome, not least since the council
Duxford Aviation Society’s Varsity when
had previously tended to adopt a
it was airworthy. A delightful man,
somewhat secretive attitude regarding
he will be greatly missed.
Aeroplane’s
what, after all, is a publicly owned
condolences go to his family and
aeroplane. Now, as you’ll read inside,
friends. e accompanying photo,
no nal decision is expected until after
by his old colleague Barry Wheeler,
May’s local council elections — if,
shows Hugh in his
indeed, the course of the COVID-19
element as associate
pandemic allows them to go ahead.
editor of
Flight:
being
e outcome is awaited with interest,
given a detailed tour
not least on the part of those who
of the new Lockheed
have brought about the Desford’s
TriStar’s cockpit at the
rejuvenation.
1971 Paris Salon.
One thing all can surely agree on,
though, is that Newark represents the
Ben Dunnell
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.
S
Editor
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CONTRIBUTORS THIS MONTH
CHRIS GIBSON
Chris read geology and
mineralogy at the University
of Aberdeen, graduating in
1984, and has worked in oil
exploration since 1985. This
has taken him all over the
world, allowing the
occasional glimpse of
unusual aircraft. During
1978 his interest in aeroplanes took Chris into the
Royal Observer Corps, and on the standing-down
of the ROC in 1991 he began researching aviation
history. He has written several books on unbuilt
projects, particularly guided weapons, AEW aircraft
and helicopters.
ANNE HUGHES
Anne’s first encounter with
aircraft in 1983 was a flight
in a Beagle Pup. PPL in
hand a year later, she
embraced the world of light
aviation. In 2012 Anne
became editor of the
Beagle Pup & Bulldog
Club’s
Beagle News
and
took on a role as a volunteer researcher at IWM
Duxford. Becoming involved with Pup prototype
G-AVDF during 2014, she moved house to oversee
its restoration. In 2017 she was elected chairman of
the Vintage Aircraft Club and is also working with
the Light Aircraft Association.
MARTIN NEEDHAM
Having been brought up on
Vimto and aeroplanes,
Martin began taking
aviation photography
seriously in 2011. Along the
way he has co-founded
aviation events company
Threshold.aero and served
his time airside at
Manchester Airport. Since moving to Lincolnshire
in 2018, he’s swapped Airbuses for Austers, having
been adopted as Windmill Aviation’s weekend
‘ramp rat’. Despite preferring historic aircraft to
today’s ‘white tubes’, Martin currently works on
Aeroplane’s
sister titles
Airliner World, AIR
International
and
Airports of the World.
STEWART WILSON
ESTABLISHED 1911
Stewart has arguably been
Australia’s most prolific
aviation writer, with 61
books and hundreds of
articles published over
nearly four decades. Holder
of a private pilot’s licence,
Stewart was news editor
and features writer for
Australian Aviation
magazine for 19 years before
establishing
Aero Australia
in 2003. Outside
aviation, Stewart is a formally trained musician and
still composes and records in his spare time. Born
in Sydney, he has lived in the New South Wales
country town of Bungendore with his wife Wendy
for the past 27 years.
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