The Aviation Historian — January 2018

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 101 O N SEPTEMBER 2, 1959, a tall, thin young lad struggling with a heavy RAF F-24 aerial cam ...

102 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 good stead in the not-too-distant future. Janet’s mother Leslie, inspired by her daughter ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 103 the journey of Sqn Ldr Charles Maughan, CO of the RAF’s No 60 Sqn. Using a motorcycle and ...

104 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 accident owing to an engine failure on take-off. Eventually he returned to operations, fl ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 105 and the company’s long-nosed Reid & Sigrist Desford, G-AGOS. There was also instructi ...

106 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 Peter Nock later recalled of Ahmedabad: “Customs had a mass of different, mostly obsolete ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 107 trip involving a refuelling stop at Luxor in Egypt she remembered: “Luxor delay factor — ...

108 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 medals are awarded annually for outstanding achievement in aviation. Unfortunately, Janet ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 109 Unit 3, Enigma Building, Bilton Road, Denbigh East, Bletchley Bucks MK1 1HW Telephone: +4 ...

THE FALL OF damien In May 1995 exemplary airmanship was demonstrated by the crew of one of the RAF’s three specialised Hawker Si ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 111 T HE NIMROD WAS essentially an extensively modified military variant of the de Havilland ...

112 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 “down south” during the Falklands conflict in Although not part of the main task force, ...

inconvenience caused. I forgot to ask the hat if it could swim! We had a Met brief on what the weather was doing; there wasn’t a ...

114 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 than a couple of feet. We could see for miles and the area around Kinloss and Findhorn Ba ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 115 decision of my 30-odd years of flying, based on someone else’s reports. The copilot trans ...

116 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 After the noise of the ditching, the silence when we came to a halt was almost deafening. ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 117 Ian Allan Aviation Tours Terminal House, Shepperton, Middlesex, TW17 8AS, United Kingdom ...

118 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 The Right Flyer: Gabriel Voisin, Henry Farman and the Archetype of Aeroplanes By Reg Wins ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 119 translated into marginal lift for a long flight with high weight, in turn making even mod ...

120 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 is highly unlikely that a General would ask for the opinions of junior officers. The latt ...