The Aviation Historian — January 2018

The modern journal of classic aeroplanes and the history of flying The Aviation Historian ® 22 ISSUE THE 1955 COMET 3 GLOBAL PUB ...

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Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 3 Editor’s Letter A VERY HAPPY New Year from all of us here at TA HTA HTA H and a and a warm ...

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Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 5 3 EDITOR’S LETTER 6 AIR CORRESPONDENCE 10 PROOF POSITIVE Using rare and previously unseen p ...

6 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 AIR CORRESPONDENCE Letters to the Editor A narrow squeak SIR — Your excellent article Furth ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 7 Condor, Goose and more SIR — Thanks for publishing my Siebel feature in TAH20! A bit of nit ...

AIR CORRESPONDENCE Letters to the Editor 8 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 car in those early days, staying over for two nigh ...

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4 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 10 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No ...

PROOF POSITIVE After a series of high-profile Comet I crashes the previous year, de Havilland had a lot riding on the lengthened ...

12 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 international tour would impress potential customers around the world, particularly those ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 13 crowd of executives and employees, together with more than 100 reporters, turned out at th ...

14 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 departure at 0530hr GMT on Friday December 2 would have given a Sydney arrival of 1100hr G ...

ABOVE With the famous Harbour Bridge in the background, G-ANLO makes a tour of Sydney, where it arrived on Sunday, December 4, t ...

16 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 jetliner’s arrival in Sydney with the headline, “MASCOT CROWD HOSED TO LET COMET SCREAM IN ...

LEFT LEFT With a flower lei presented to the Comet presented to the Comet on its arrival at Honolulu on its arrival at Honolulu ...

18 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 BELOW On December 18 G-ANLO flew from Vancouver to a very chilly Toronto (where it is seen ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 19 on to American soil. Two days were spent at Honolulu, seemingly without too much of a sche ...

20 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 Havilland team. The aircraft’s fuel consumption went to plan, as did the sector times. Air ...