The Aviation Historian — January 2018

F LYING OVER THE magnificent landscapes of a warm, exotic foreign land is an enticing prospect for any adventurous military pilo ...

62 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 Skyraiders were supplied to Gabon by the French government. The three pilots of the GPG, a ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 63 the planned date. Skirmishes began at Zouar and the Skyraiders were called in. Ground-atta ...

64 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 On July 10 a bloodless coup in Mauritania almost grounded the flight in Nouadhibou on the ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 65 In August the same year the squadron acquired an Embraer EMB-110 Bandeirante to replace th ...

66 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 ABOVE Aérospatiale SA.330 Puma TR-KCI of the GPG performs a transport sortie over the Bata ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 67 in “45” (BuNo 126956, which has been part of the collection of the National Museum of Nava ...

68 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 Few commercial helicopter companies have made a success of earning a profit from the short ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 69 W ITH THE CITY of San Francisco and San Francisco International Airport (SFO) being on a p ...

70 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 with any Sabena Belgian World Airlines flight, the fare was $2. The airline went on to neg ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 71 operations with a total of nine stations. By the mid-1960s the company was also offering l ...

72 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 commercial passenger Air Cushion Vehicle (ACV) service in America, and, as part of the FHH ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 73 provided was traffic reports, which the pilots would radio in to local wireless stations. ...

74 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 ABOVE With the double-deck elevated Embarcadero Freeway as a backdrop, S-62 N307Y hovers a ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 75 television documentary featured SFO’s S-62A, N975, landing at the Downtown San Francisco H ...

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Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 77 B Y THE AUTUMN of 1929 modifications to the Armada Argentina battleship ARA Rivadavia — pr ...

78 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 ABOVE The first of the AN’s Walruses was M-O-9, which made its first flight at Eastleigh w ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 79 to the EOAFM and became operational in the autumn of 1939. By early 1938 a shortage of air ...

80 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 21 Built by Vickers-Armstrongs at Barrow-in- Furness, ARA La Argentina was a light cruiser de ...