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The Aviation Historian
The modern journal of classic aeroplanes and the history of flying
®
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Issue No
10
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THE AVIATION HISTORIAN
Issue No 7
Published quarterly by:
The Aviation Historian
PO Box 962
Horsham RH12 9PP
United Kingdom
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www.theaviationhistorian.com
(published January 15, 2015)
The Aviation Historian
The modern journal of classic aeroplanes and the history of flying
®
ISSUE NUMBER 10
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Editor’s Letter
A VERY HAPPY new year to all our readers, and a warm
welcome to our tenth issue — double figures! — in which
we’ve packed our bags for a truly international experience.
Starting off in the Vale of Evesham, over which a frost-nibbled
Cyril Uwins set a new altitude record in 1932, we then head
for wartime Italy, where bitter political infighting prevented
the development of a series of truly world-class homegrown
fighters. After an in-depth stop in America to look at the
equally politically fractious procurement of the US Marine
Corps’ AV-8A Harrier, we get low-down and dirty with the
RF-51Ds of the 45th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron in
Korea, where the Mustang attrition rate was ferocious.
On we go to the Middle East — Philip Jarrett’s World War
One photographs of the RFC’s X Depot in Aboukir are simply
stunning, while Ray Flude’s detailed account of the Allied
1942 airlifts to Cairo brings to light an oft-forgotten yet heroic
effort on the part of British, Canadian and American air
transport pilots — before alighting in pre-revolution Iran,
where the country’s first rotary-wing pilot recalls his not-
always-pleasant experiences with the Cessna Skyhook
helicopter, further to our history of the type in
TAH3.
Finally, we wend our way back to our starting point in good
old Blighty, with former Air Transport Auxiliary dynamo Joan
Hughes being arrested for flying under a bridge on the M40 in
a Tiger Moth disguised as one of International Rescue’s
Thunderbirds. It’s quite a journey —
bon voyage!
Nick Stroud
e-mail nickstroud@theaviationhistorian.com
Mick Oakey
e-mail mickoakey@theaviationhistorian.com
EDITOR
MANAGING EDITOR
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Amanda Stroud
Lynn Oakey
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Dr David Baker, Ian Bott, Robert Forsyth,
Juanita Franzi, Dr Richard P. Hallion,
Philip Jarrett CRAeS, Colin A. Owers,
Julian Temple, Capt Dacre Watson
EDITORIAL BOARD
David & Angie Siddall,
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The Aviation Historian,
PO Box 962, Horsham RH12 9PP, United Kingdom
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The Aviation Historian
2015
ISSN 2051-1930 (print)
ISSN 2051-7602 (digital)
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PERSONAL NOTE It is my sad duty to report that
TAH
Editorial Board
member Harry Fraser-Mitchell died on October 28, 2014. We were privileged
to have his advice, support and friendship. He will be much missed.
FRONT COVER
A Nieuport Scout undergoes maintenance in Egypt
during the Great War; more exquisite images on pages 64–71.
MADE IN BRITAIN
BACK COVER:
An AV-8A Harrier pilot of US Marine Corps unit VMA-
542 prepares for a mission. The story of the type begins on page 40.
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CONTENTS
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EDITOR’S LETTER
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AIR CORRESPONDENCE
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ON HEAVEN’S DOORSTEP
Issue No 10
Worcestershire-based author Tony Buttler investigates local
reports of Cyril Uwins’s record-setting flight to 44,000ft over
Evesham in a Vickers Vespa in September 1932
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HOW NOT TO CHOOSE A FIGHTER
Gregory Alegi provides fresh insight into Italy’s disastrous
wartime procurement of a series of promising fighters
powered by Germany’s state-of-the-art DB 605 engine
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ECHOES FROM DAWN SKIES: BIRDS OF A FEATHER
Our serialisation of British pioneer F.W. Merriam’s long-lost
manuscript of memories from his contemporaries continues
with recollections by Ronald Kemp, and of F.P. Raynham
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SELL IT TO THE MARINES
Chris Farara opens our two-part section on the AV-8A Harrier
with the story of the type’s development up to its introduction
into US Marine Corps service . . .
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BIRD OF PREY
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96
. . . at which point Lon Nordeen takes over to detail the
invaluable jump-jet’s career with the “Flying Leathernecks”
56
THE POLKA DOT RIDGE-RUNNERS
The RF-51D Mustang pilots of the USAF’s 45th TRS
arguably flew the most dangerous low-level missions of
the entire Korean conflict, as Doug Gordon relates
magnificent original photographs collected by mechanic
George Wright in Egypt during World War One
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“THERE WERE FINS, WINGS AND COUNTLESS
OTHER THINGS . . .”
Philip Jarrett presents a selection of
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AN EYE FOR DETAIL: GET CRUNGE!
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Next up in Juanita Franzi’s series on lesser-known airframes
and their markings is an RAAF Mirage III that, albeit
temporarily, became the mount of “AVM Hannibal Crunge”
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FOLLAND’S FORGOTTEN MONOPLANES Pt 2
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“SOME SUPREME EFFORT . . .”
The second of Ralph Pegram’s three articles on the
little-known Gloster monoplane designs of Henry Folland
In June 1942 an Allied airlift of global proportions was
mounted to resupply British forces in North Africa in the
wake of the fall of Tobruk. Ray Flude tells the full epic story
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THE SHAH’S SKYHOOKS
Further to our history of the Cessna CH-1 Skyhook in
TAH3,
Iranian aviation historian Babak Taghvaee tracked down
Iran’s first helicopter pilot, Col Gholam-Reza Rahbariyan, to
find out more about the type in Iranian Gendarmerie service
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106
AGAINST ALL ODDS
David H. Stringer concludes his definitive two-part history
of the USA’s post-war non-scheduled airlines — or “non-
skeds” — from the Korean conflict to deregulation
118
ARMCHAIR AVIATION
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LOST & FOUND
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ALIAS THUNDERBIRD 6
Pilot, airshow commentator and part-time air-traffic
controller Melvyn Hiscock reveals the alter ego of Tiger
Moth G-ANFM, and explains how Joan Hughes landed her-
self in trouble with the aircraft in 1967 — by failing to land
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OFF THE BEATEN TRACK
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