Flightpath - May 2018

FLIGHTPATH|61 RAAF aircrew lost on supply ops over Yugoslavia, Albania, Romania and Hungary 427416 Flight Sergeant Lewis Calder ...

62 |FLIGHTPATH The Last When the Kittyhawk pilots of 78 Squadron RAAF engaged Japanese aircraft hunting shipping south of BiakIs ...

FLIGHTPATH|63 Green2F/SgtDonSmyth Green3F/SgtIanMacKenzie Green4F/ONormBlesing The first pair of Red Section took off from Holl ...

yellingdirections.Downoutofthesuncame Osment,Gadsden,CowleyandHarndenonto the‘Judy’.BobOsmentopenedfire,seeing strikesandthenfla ...

FLIGHTPATH|65 werenoweasytargets.Asth climbedWhitesawa‘Judy’belowin slowturnwithacoupleofotherKi tyhawkstryingtomakeanattac butt ...

66 |FLIGHTPATH gagedincombatwestofBiakIslandwithair- craftthatwereundoubtedlytheremnantsof the enemy force the Australians attac ...

FLIGHTPATH | 67 bat, only ten made it through to the end of the war. In fact the four who didn't survive to see peace, didn't ev ...

68 | FLIGHTPATH on the wharf ‘Zero’ ...

FLIGHTPATH | 69 Courtesy of a variety of factors that contributed to its loss, a Japanese ‘Zero’ with an oblique red fuselage st ...

70 | FLIGHTPATH deprecating nick- name poked fun at Schmidt’s surname by querying his loyalty. Over Lae airfield the crew took p ...

FLIGHTPATH | 71 clouds hid impressive yet dangerous moun- tains. He had no radio with which to com- municate with Arita as all o ...

protest from RAAF Intelligence and forced General Douglas MacArthur to issue a ban on the future publication of any information ...

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T he Myanmar Defence Services Muse- um is a massive complex of display buildings a few miles outside the new capitalofNaypyidaw. ...

FLIGHTPATHFLIGHTPATH|75| 75 Seven of the nine DHC-3 Otters bought in 1957 returned to Canada in 1989. UB653 is the sole survivor ...

76 |FLIGHTPATH A venerable collection T he Sri Lanka Air Force Museum was establishedin1993attheRatmalana Air Base to the south ...

FLIGHTPATH|77 1 BoultonPaulBalliolT.2CA310 is the rarest aircraft in the museum. Sri Lanka operated twelve Balliols and two are ...

78 |FLIGHTPATH On Show Tyabb T hePeninsulaAeroClubhelditsbien- nialairshowon11March.Themed ‘War & Peace’, the event showcase ...

FLIGHTPATH | 79 BELOW: Turning 90 this year Borg Sorensen declared this was his last airshow display, he lew in the three ship T ...

80 |FLIGHTPATH Scone warbirds return T he Bengalla Warbirds over Scone air- showwasheldonSunday,25March, in the Upper Hunter Reg ...