The Aviation Historian — Issue 21 (October 2017)
Issue No 21 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 81 ...
82 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 21 At 0740hr on February 27 we set out for Atbara, and followed the railway line across the d ...
Issue No 21 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 83 pumping the petrol from our main tank to the engines, and, as we had only enough petrol in ...
84 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 21 Philip Cunliffe-Lister, Secretary of State for the Colonies, and Air Vice-Marshal Cyril Ne ...
Issue No 21 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 85 aeroplanes come in this morning I was so proud to be British”. She was very impressed and ...
86 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 21 The Mbeya Hotel is rather a curious one. It is the nearest place to the Lupa Gold Field, a ...
Issue No 21 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 87 the RAF. His mother and sister were also there. Much as we would have liked to stay, we ha ...
88 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 21 civilised aspect, and large farms could be seen dotted about every ten or 20 miles [15–30k ...
Issue No 21 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 89 We’d had the most wonderful time at Roberts Heights and it was very difficult to say goodb ...
90 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 21 as a house. We arrived at the rendezvous well prepared for an arduous climb of about a mil ...
Issue No 21 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 91 hell as the chasm appeared and disappeared in the mist and spray. We all managed to grope ...
92 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 21 At the 1962 Royal Tournament at London’s Earls Court Exhibition Centre, visitors were trea ...
Issue No 21 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 93 T HE AUDIENCE OF Britain’s annual Royal Tournament in July 1962 was treated to a spectacul ...
BELOW In one piece and bearing a pair of dummy Firestreak missiles on its starboard wing, Vixette “XJ603/246” provides an unusua ...
Issue No 21 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 95 prototypes. It was understandable, therefore, for the station to be asked if it was possib ...
By the mid-1930s all was not well in the world of British civil aviation, with antiquated biplane airliners trudging along the E ...
Issue No 21 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 97 I N THE LATE 1960s Charles W. Cain, founder of Air-Britain, telephoned me to ask if I had ...
98 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 21 had to be suitable for an instrument approach using the Lorenz system. Unsurprisingly, the ...
Issue No 21 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 99 and the Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor at £40,000. There would not be much in it. Indeed, the su ...
100 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 21 ABOVE Windtunnel tests of the FC.1 were undertaken with this beautiful handmade model, se ...
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