Aeroplane September 2017

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NEWS AND

COMMENT

4 FROM THE EDITOR

6 NEWS

• BBMF marks 60th anniversary


• Dumfries Spitfi re unveiled


• P-51B goes trans-Atlantic


• Sea Fury T20 fl ies again


• Boeings and Bells star at Oshkosh


• Mosquito fuselage at V&A
  ...and the month’s other top aircraft
  preservation news
  17 HANGAR TALK
  Steve Slater’s comment on the
  historic aircraft world
  19 FLIGHT LINE
  Refl ections on aviation history with
  Denis J. Calvert

REGULARS

20 SKYWRITERS

22 Q&A

Your questions asked and answered

78 BRIEFING FILE

Our series on aspects of aviation

technology or tactics. This time we

examine the Vulcan rotary cannon

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Contents

September 2017

96 EVENTS

Flying Legends reviewed, plus reports

from Yeovilton and RIAT, and show

dates for September

100 REVIEWS

106 NEXT MONTH

FEATURES

26 DUNKIRK FILM

Assessing Christopher Nolan’s new

WW2 epic, in which warbirds play a

major role

COVER IMAGE: The Canadian Warplane Heritage

Museum’s Lancaster X. ERIC DUMIGAN/CWHM

COVER IMAGE US: Stallion 51’s two TF-51D

Mustangs. PAUL BOWEN/STALLION 51

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81 DATABASE:

DH

DRAGON

de Havilland’s

popular inter-

war twin is

described by

James Kightly IN-DEPTH PAGES

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33 SARO JET FLYING BOATS

The era of the fl ying boat airliner

was over, but it seems no-one told

Saunders-Roe

38 VICKERS VC

The last major airliner design

proposed by Vickers before it was

merged out of existence

43 DOUBLE-DECK VC

How to increase the capacity of the

big British four-jet? Turn it into a

double-decker

BRITISH AIRLINERS: PROJECT CANCELLED

BRITISH AIRLINERS:

PROJECT CANCELLED

48 LANCASTER RUHR EXPRESS

A fl ying tribute to the fi rst Canadian

‘Lanc’ and its wartime history

58 ALITALIA MB326s

When Italy’s national airline fl ew the

elegant Macchi jet trainer

62 AEROPLANE MEETS...

LEE LAUDERBACK

The world’s highest-time Mustang

pilot — ever

72 RAF ‘STRINGBAGS’

No 119 Squadron fl ew the Swordfi sh

with great success

103 AEROPLANE ARCHIVE:

‘LONGSTOP’

1947’s big UK airborne forces exercise

WIN!

BATTLE OF

BRITAIN BOOK

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for details

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