The Aviation Historian — January 2018

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 81 the Air Ministry conducted its Home Census on March 21, 1946. Another role in another serv ...

82 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 the first two examples, 2-O-23 and 2-O-24, being delivered to the London docks on October ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 83 end of Panama Canal, were purchased from the US Foreign Liquidation Commission at Balboa f ...

84 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 1947, together with spares selected by Tachella. The following day the vessel left for Ush ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 85 he cut the engine and began a turn to starboard, causing the wingtip to touch the surface. ...

86 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 conditions was ultimately found at Whaler’s Bay, the same location used by the Australian ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 87 Belgrano and ARA 9 de Julio in 1951, heralding the helicopter’s replacement of fixed-wing ...

HE YEAR 1950 was a typically busy one for the peripatetic John Stroud, who managed to pack in trips to France (see Open Wide! in ...

A great success, the inauguration of Broomhall led to the exploration of opening airfields at Butlin’s other camps, and the foll ...

90 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 1948, “one of the great advantages of this new venture is that Butlin Aviation Charter Ser ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 91 Following a vigorous aerobatic display by a former Free French Army pilot in a Miles Magis ...

92 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 Ultra Light Aircraft Association (ULAA) held its annual rally at Skegness, Flight noting t ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 93 true — and invite you to Ingoldmells on Sunday, August 27th, when the GRAND AIR DISPLAY as ...

“VERY NEARLY A GOOD AEROPLANE.. .” ... was how Westland test pilot Harald Penrose described the company’s Wyvern naval strike ai ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 95 T HE SERIES OF photographs presented here, most previously unpublished, taken by an unknow ...

96 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 ABOVE This photo ofTS375 from the rear highlights the Youngman flaps, seen extended in the ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 97 ABOVE The test crew assembles for the tethered engine run, and the Wyvern is fuelled from ...

98 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 was the sole example powered by a Rolls- Royce Clyde two-spool turboprop. The Clyde was sm ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 99 Eleventh in Series Order your copy today – only £19.95!plus p&p http://www.valiant-win ...

“Ferrying is something I’d “Ferrying is something I’d rather do more than anything else.. .” Janet Ferguson: ferry pilot extraor ...