Aeroplane – June 2018

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ABOVE: No 54 Squadron’s new Vampire F3s lined up at RAF Odiham, Hampshire, prior to the trans- Atlantic fl ight. AEROPLANE ABOVE ...

TOP: The Vampire pilots for the outbound flight — from left to right, WO S. Evans, Flt Lt Ricky Wright, Sqn Ldr Bobby Oxspring, ...

BELOW: WO S. Evans being helped in to one of the immersion suits issued to the Vampire pilots. AEROPLANE ABOVE: Led by Bobby Oxs ...

AEROPLANE JULY 2018 http://www.aeroplanemonthly.com 45 Woods recounted, “the grapevine from the British Joint Services Mission i ...

46 http://www.aeroplanemonthly.com AEROPLANE JULY 2018 possibility of cumulonimbus around Goose Bay itself. “As we were approach ...

AEROPLANE JULY 2018 http://www.aeroplanemonthly.com 47 pilots must have known that he was facing the distinct possibility of a b ...

ABOVE: Blue Section in vic formation: Vampires VT871, VT868 and VT869, fl own respectively by Oxspring, Wright and Evans. VIA K ...

AEROPLANE JULY 2018 http://www.aeroplanemonthly.com 49 hours during their deployment. Wood mused, “we seemed to have done the jo ...

50 http://www.aeroplanemonthly.com AEROPLANE JULY 2018 P-51 TRUSTY RUSTY TRUSTY RUSTY In seeing the international debut of P-51D ...

AEROPLANE JULY 2018 http://www.aeroplanemonthly.com 51 J aap van Mesdag was born in Eighteen years later and now a medical stud ...

ABOVE: The late Jaap van Mesdag, founder of the Early Birds and the man instrumental in buying the Mustang, at Gilze-Rijen on 2 ...

TOP: Marcel Peerlkamp manoeuvres the Mustang for the camera, with the Rampspol bridge over the river IJssel in the background. A ...

BELOW: Part of the crowded static park at the fi rst Farnborough show. Inevitably, the types illustrated would experience mixed ...

ABOVE: George Errington fl ies past in Ambassador G-AKRD as Meteor F4 VT256 rolls out. air on 5 September. The same went for Avr ...

Airspeed Ambassador G-AKRD Airspeed Consul G-AJLN Static display only Armstrong Whitworth AW52 TS363 Nene engines Armstrong Whit ...

84 PAGES, SOFTBACK Following the previous hugely popular works on the B-17G and B-25 Mitchell, Combat Machines Volume 3 explores ...

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British transports, both commercial and military, dominate the scene at Farnborough in 1964: clockwise from bottom left are Hawk ...

A01004A NORTH AMERICAN P-51D MUSTANG™ 1:72 Aircraft flown by Royal Air Force Bodney, Norfolk, England, 1944. A05131 NORTH AMERIC ...