The Aviation Historian — Issue 21 (October 2017)

The modern journal of classic aeroplanes and the history of flying The Aviation Historian ® AN AFRICAN ADVENTURE CAIRO TO PRETOR ...

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Issue No 21 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 3 Editor’s Letter “IN THE GLORIOUS sunshine we found ourselves flying over rolling pasture la ...

4 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 21 HAND-CARVED DESKTOP MODELS A wide range of desktop model aircraft held in stock from all er ...

Issue No 21 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 5 3 EDITOR’S LETTER 6 AIR CORRESPONDENCE 10 SHRINKING PAINS Continuing our 60th anniversary c ...

6 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 21 AIR CORRESPONDENCE Letters to the Editor The joy of Junkers SIR — I have just been reading ...

Issue No 21 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 7 Stroud account was G-AHOF’s interior colour scheme. Can you believe: pinkish walls, cream c ...

AIR CORRESPONDENCE Letters to the Editor 8 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 21 After the aircraft was withdrawn from BEA service ...

Issue No 21 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 9 Alias the Aardvark SIR — What a great idea of Brian Cope’s (Air Correspondence, TAH20, in r ...

10 Issue No 21 W HEN ANALYSING the 1957 Defence White Paper, most accounts dwell on the perceived downside of cancelled aircraft ...

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12 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 21 almost half of the establishment. Recruitment would henceforth be on a volunteer basis, bu ...

Issue No 21 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 13 Before Eden’s ill-fated Suez venture in October 1956, British forces could use the “CENTO ...

14 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 21 Soviet bombers in years to come and interceptors were declared obsolete (see Greg Baughen’ ...

Issue No 21 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 15 AI.18 radar could be installed in the same space. By increasing the diameter of the antenn ...

16 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 21 on the Lightning and, after trying overwing, wingtip, ventral semi-recessed and underwing ...

ENGLISH ELECTRIC P.22 WEAPONS LOAD 0 Ft 10 0 Mtr 3 EECo P.22 with 2 x Blue Vesta AAMs and 2 x Rocket Packs EECo P.22 with 2 x MB ...

18 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 21 D ESIGNED TO AESIGNED TO AESIGNED TO A 1934 Imperial Airways 1934 Imperial Airways Ltd (IA ...

Issue No 21 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 19 route between the West African ports and Egypt, which became known as the “Takoradi Route” ...

ABOVE Enterprise following its belly landing in the dunes near Nouakchott, the Mauritanian capital, in February The type’s high ...