Flightpath - May 2018

FLIGHTPATH|41 sociation’sAirVentureinOshkosh,Wiscon- sin. Other flights were made to a number of air shows and fly-ins and, impo ...

P-40EKittyhawkVH-KTY(41-25109) inishedas3SqnRAAFP-40E,ET953. Photography by Mark Jessop. ...

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44 |FLIGHTPATH Cats in Colour H ansWiesman,wellknownas‘The Dakota Hunter’, needs little introduction. His love for theDouglasDC- ...

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46 |FLIGHTPATH TOP:PBYsonanAleutianairieldaround1942with bombsanddepthchargeswaitingonatrolley to be loaded on another PBY-5A Ca ...

FLIGHTPATH|47 RIGHT:‘MissPickUp’(G-PBYA),ownedand operated by The Catalina Society, is a regular visitortothepre-wartrans-Atlant ...

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FLIGHTPATH|49 CLOCKWISE FROM MAIN: Canso C-FNJE was fighting fires in the Inuvik, Northwest Territories area, in 2001 when it st ...

50 |FLIGHTPATH Contributing EditorJames Kightlyexamines the often overlooked diverse history of the inter-warSupermarineSouthamp ...

M ostlyforgottentoday,theSuper- marine Southampton was a re- markably successful inter-war military aircraft. In 1927, two woode ...

52 |FLIGHTPATH Attheendof1934,on8Novemberboth Southamptons were used to meet a flight of threeShortRangoonflyingboatsof203 Squad ...

Southamptons Around Australia A major effort undertaken by the RAAF Southamptons echoed the earlier long range flightsoftheRAF’s ...

54 |FLIGHTPATH WhileintheGulfofCarpentaria,thecrew wereaskedtohelplocatealostShortScion amphibian. Pilot Stuart Campbell, with a ...

FLIGHTPATH|55 flownupfromRichmond,NSW,withLeading AircraftmanSherwoodaboardasanexchange crewman, O’Donnell going into Caulfield ...

56 |FLIGHTPATH “For Our Freedom Supplies being dropped by the RAF to partisan forces, possibly in January 1945, somewhere in Yug ...

FLIGHTPATH|57 TheprestigiousPolishCrossofValourwaspresentedto veryfewAustralianservicepersonnel.Fourareknown tohavebeenawardedto ...

58 |FLIGHTPATH whiletheSovietschosenottointervene(al- though they did eventually fly more than 2500PolikarpovPo-2re-supplysortie ...

FLIGHTPATH|59 Twenty-seven-year old Fletcher and 22- year old Raw, both Victorians, volunteered for numerous flights to Warsaw a ...

60 |FLIGHTPATH (‘X’) that was shot down by enemy flak or night fighters near the centre of Warsaw. He worked as an orchardist be ...