Flightpath - May 2018

NEW SPITFIRE IMPORT The Last ‘Big Do’ Final Major Pacific RAAF Combat and current restorations THE PBY IN COLOUR Expedition to T ...

2|FLIGHTPATH Contents Volume 29 Number 4, May-July 2018 Features 14 E x p e d it io n to Tadj i ArchaeologistAsh Maticreportsonh ...

FLIGHTPATH | 3 Regulars 4News 20 Personal Effect 22 Mailbag 42 Poster 74 Museums 78 Airshows COVER: Chris Mayr in his FW 190, wi ...

4|FLIGHTPATH News Wirraway lies into preservation The Nhill Aviation Heritage Centre (NAHC), aftertwoyearsofintensivefundraising ...

FLIGHTPATH| News Dak and Meteor head north USSLexingtonWreckAndAircraftFound On4March2018,thewreckandsomeair- craftoftheAmerican ...

6|FLIGHTPATH News W.W.II Wackett Wireless Trainer ThenewMaryboroughMilitaryAviation MuseumhasacquiredCACWackettA3- fromtheBeckMu ...

FLIGHTPATH| News Lockheed twin resurgence Handsome Anson A little known restoration project occupies what was once a RAAF Base g ...

8|FLIGHTPATH News Bell P-63C Kingcobra rebirth TheWingsMuseum,basedinSussex,is embarkingonPhaseTwoofitsBellP-63C Kingcobra resto ...

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10 |FLIGHTPATH Spitire Sixteen The relatively dormant Australian Spitfire populationhasreceivedanumberofsignifi- cant boosts rec ...

FLIGHTPATH| Ground Instruction with RAF Church Law- ford in Warwickshire. Over the next few yearsitworeanumberofdifferentschemes ...

12 |FLIGHTPATH Scone’s Spitire Pair Vintage Fighter Restora- tions(VFR),atScone, New South Wales, is mak- ing excellent progress ...

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14 | FLIGHTPATH Archaeologist Ash Matic reports on recent travels in northern Papua New Guinea, including a visit to the site of ...

FLIGHTPATH | 15 carve an airfield complex, featuring two runways, out of the jungle. Both were fin- ished with a surface of crus ...

16 |FLIGHTPATH located there. Travelling to Aitape is diffi- cult,withtheeasiestmeansofreachingthe townshipviaa170kmfour-wheeldr ...

FLIGHTPATH| wasdifficult,Iamconfidentwehavebeen able to positively determine the identities of threeoftheaircraftthatremainbased ...

18 |FLIGHTPATH cations where aircraft were dumped after the war and, without additional informa- tion, the only thing that can b ...

FLIGHTPATH| Itwasdecidedtoagaintake to the air with the drone to inspect the wreck. wentto8SquadronatTadjiinstead.Re- ceivedbyth ...

20 |FLIGHTPATH Personal Efects Combat over the Trenches–Os- wald Watt, Avia- tion Pioneer Oswald Watt is probably most fa- moust ...