Flightpath AugustSeptemberOctober 2017

FLIGHTPATH|21 company travelled to Canberra especially to discuss with the federal government the matter of gaining a subsidy fo ...

Death Was Their Co-pilot This book’s title led to some mis- givings. Its German title roughly translates as ‘Death Rides With Me ...

nese back from the Indian fron- tier. Several superb leaders emerged, but, like the war they fought, their achievements have bee ...

24 |FLIGHTPATH Photo: AWM image P12424.040 With ‘Old John’ in Syria Australia’s involvement in the Syrian campaign is often lost ...

ABOVE:Another image of the Dewoitine D.520 inspected during the visit to the ‘Glenn Martins’. The fighter was the most active of ...

east by using infrastructure in Vichy French-controlled Syria. Indeed, during the uprising in Iraq, Luftwaffe aircraft, wearing ...

FLIGHTPATH|27 One of the squadron’s Tomahawks set up for gun harmonisation. The first of the new aircraft arrived in mid May 194 ...

28 |FLIGHTPATH In late 1944, a ditching by a young American pilot resulted in two extraordinary outcomes. His rescuers shot down ...

After briefing, Summers reviewed the emergency procedureswithStaffSergeantRobertEvans,histur- ret gunner and the only other crew ...

IslandswhereSecondLieutenantHoward Saar had ditched when hit by flak. Two men were seen taking to their liferaft before they dis ...

FLIGHTPATH|31 hisearphonesandheldupthreefingerstoindicateto theothersthathewasontheair.Withflamescoming fromtheportengine,Summer ...

The emergency hatch would not release and Summers could only hope that the im- pactwoulddislodgeit.“I heard the right propeller ...

clingtheliferaft.Severalcircleswere made by all three A-20s and the Catalina inanattempttosighttheliferaftinsemi darkness.Finall ...

Spitfire AR501 at 75 This summer the Shuttleworth Collection’s Vickers Supermarine Spitfire F.MkVc AR501 will flyagainafteranepi ...

FLIGHTPATH | 35 S pitfire AR501 entered operational RAF service with the Czechoslovakian 310 Squadron at Exeter i n Devon on 19 ...

36 |FLIGHTPATH 194,theairframewasplacedinstoreat High Ercall, being declared surplus to RAF requirements in 1946 and struck off ...

FLIGHTPATH|37 instructional purposes at Loughboroug other types included a Grumman Mart and two Hawker Hurricanes, includi what ...

38 |FLIGHTPATH edinthecoloursandmarkingsNN-Dof SquadronLeaderDolezalof310(Czech) Squadron.Itwasnotablyalsofinishedina mattpaintf ...

MUSEUMS OF AVIATION GUIDE 2017 ...

The Royal Australian Navy invites you, your family and friends to visit the Fleet Air Arm Museum. The Museum houses the nation’s ...