FlyPast 02.2018

20 Mitchells over the Paci c 90 Infamous White Paper 106 Speed Record

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February 2018 No.

Front Cover

The Flying Heritage and Combat Armor Museum’s Messerschmitt Bf 109E-3 flying in the US recently. See feature beginning on page 52. ©JOHN DIBBS

This page, main image: The Vulcan Restoration Trust’s Avro Vulcan B.2 XL426 recently performed a taxi run at London Southend Airport.

See page 104. LIAM SHAW

20 Mitchells over the

Paci c

Warren E Thompson recounts the

exploits of the 345th Bomb Group,

nicknamed the Air Apaches.

84 Attack of the Heinkels

Chris Goss reflects on the early years of

Luftwaffe torpedo-bomber operations.

90 Infamous White Paper

Sixty years on, the Defence White

Paper of 1957 can still evoke bitter

recrimination. Andrew Brookes

examines its intentions.

100 Portuguese

Beau ghters

Filipe Silva tells how Portugal’s last two

Beaufighters escaped the scrapman and

returned to Britain.

104 Vulcan howls again

Avro Vulcan XL426 has completed a taxi

run at its Southend base. Liam Shaw

reports.

106 Speed Record

Stuart Grover and Bart Van Damme pay

tribute to ‘Bill’ Barns, war hero and test

pilot.

News

• Avenger on its way to Hawaii


• Corsair project progress


• B-29 wreck discovered


• Viggen conservation work


• Thunderchief rolled out


• Texan Tomcat on display