The Aviation Historian — January 2018

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 21 If your passion is for earlier cars – everything from Austin Sevens and Model T Fords to R ...

22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 During a recent visit to the UK’s National Archives in London, CHRIS GIBSON discovered a w ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 23 N THE SPRING of 1943 a series of documents found their way to the British Air Ministry’s A ...

24 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 Interpretation Report L.82 confirmed the information in Report L.77. The PI observed that ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 25 track undercarriage” and included a drawing of the aircraft with a tracked undercarriage, ...

26 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 10, 1944, Wg Cdr G.E.F. Proctor of AI2(g) describes the system and its origins. This repor ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 27 modern parlance) referred to the same type, the full picture began to materialise like a p ...

60 years ago Hawker Aircraft Ltd submitted a brochure for a state-of-the- art tactical strike aircraft designed to fulfil Operat ...

B bomber/multi-role aircraft. For some time, however, progress on the Canberra replace- ment proved to be quite slow, principall ...

30 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 was prepared in the environment created in the wake of the 1957 Defence White Paper, which ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 31 saw the addition of 1,600gal (7,275lit) of external fuel, and in the reconnaissance role t ...

32 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 The fuselage consisted of heavy-gauge skins over closely-spaced frames and stringers, and ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 33 Upsizing the P.1125Designer Ron Williams remembers IN THE AUTUMN of 1957 the late RON WILL ...

34 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 were not described in detail since they were the subject of intensive study at the Royal A ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 35 Powerplant 2 x 13,800lb-static thrust Rolls-Royce RB.142R low-bypass twin-spool turbofan e ...

36 to obscure its true purpose, semi-recessed in the weapons bay, but the bomber was designed to deliver a wide variety of weapo ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 37 of the problems of the tactical strike aircraft, and fulfils the intentions of the GOR”. I ...

DEEP CROSSING THE ALF GUNNESTAD: NORWAY’S NORTH SEA PIONEER ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 39 O N JULY 30, 1914, Norwegian aviator Tryggve Gran made the first direct flight across the ...

40 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 Bremen—Hamburg—Copenhagen and Gothenburg, arrived a few days later at Kjeller, Oslo’s airf ...