Flightpath AugustSeptemberOctober 2017

FLIGHTPATH|61 Group instead grew to detest Davies and his men, because they pestered them relent- lessly.Whenthe3rdcouldn’tshake ...

62 | FLIGHTPATH The official record of 75 Squadron RAAF’s Kittyhawks during their early 1942 deployment to defend Port Moresby i ...

FLIGHTPATH | 63 ABOVE: Pete Masters (left) and John Piper are primarily responsible for four of 75 Squadron’s six aerial kills; ...

reports exist in either Japanese or Allied records which remotely resemble Sakai’s account. The alleged incident has become a st ...

FLIGHTPATH | 65 ders, signed by No. 4 kokutai Air Officer Commander Takashi Miyazaki, stating that the executions should take pl ...

First Kittyhawk Lost to the Zero Kittyhawk pilot Wilbur Wackett (CAC Gen- eral Manager Lawrence Wackett’s son) was the first 75 ...

FLIGHTPATH | 67 Johnson, John Jackson, Barry Cox, Don Brown, ‘Barney’ Cresswell, A. H. Boyd, Wilbur Wackett, Oswald Channon, Mi- ...

68 |FLIGHTPATH Jeff Trappet’s CAC Mustang and TAM’s Spitfire Mk. VIII bask in the evening light of the Illawarra. [Leigh Atkinso ...

FLIGHTPATH|69 ITwas great to see Jet Provost VH-JPV from Melbourne. The attractive silver and yellow really stood out against th ...

70 |FLIGHTPATH TAVAS Great War Display T he Australian Vintage Aircraft Society held its Great War Flying DisplayatCabooltureAir ...

FLIGHTPATH|71 T he Kyneton Aero Club planned to cel- ebrateitsfiftiethanniversaryin2016 with an airshow but because of heavy rai ...

72 |FLIGHTPATH ABOVE:The RNZAF operated 48 Grumman TBM Avengers between 1943 and 1959. MAIN IMAGE:KermitWeeksintheSopwithSnipe r ...

FLIGHTPATH|73 I fitisEasterinanoddyear,thenBlen- heim, New Zealand, is the place to be for the bi-annual Classic Fighters air- s ...

74 |FLIGHTPATH Planes of Fame O vercomingthethreatofalegalin- junction by several disgruntled air- port tenants and the prospect ...

FLIGHTPATH|75 LEFT:The Confederate Air Force’s 1945-built FM-2 Wildcat is painted to represent a Martlet VI flown by New Zealand ...

76 |FLIGHTPATH La Ferté-Alais T he 45th Meeting Aerien Amicale Jean- Baptiste Salis, ‘Le temp des helices’ (‘Thetimeofthepropell ...

FLIGHTPATH|77 The Yak-3 of the ‘Normandie Niemen’ launches to attack the Salis Collection’s Junkers Ju-52 and Fieseler Storch. T ...

78 |FLIGHTPATH A Perfect Pageant S huttleworth's third event for the sea- son, their Military Pageant, was a stunning dedication ...

LI A ABOVE:Started with the aid of the Collection’s Hucks Starter, the Hawker Demon’s RR Kestrel bursts into life. Another highl ...

80 | FLIGHTPATH RIGHT:The Sun ‘n Fun Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star gate guard with the Blue Angels flying their F/A-18 Hornets in ...