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NEWS AND
COMMENT
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FROM THE EDITOR
NEWS
• Bf 109G-12 re-creation ready to fly
• ‘Dunkirk’ film in production
• Somme commemorations
...and the month’s other top aircraft
preservation news
HANGAR TALK
Steve Slater’s monthly comment
column on the historic aircraft world
Vol 44, no 8 • Issue no 520
August 2016
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FEATURES
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BRISTOL SCOUT
A 100-year family affair
SBAC SHOWS: RADLETT 1946
The inaugural post-war SBAC display
SBAC SHOWS:
FARNBOROUGH 1966
When Farnborough went
international — well, almost
COMMAND
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AEROPLANE
MEETS…
STU GOLDSPINK
One of the most versatile historic
aircraft pilots around
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BOOMERANG
James Kightly
recounts the
origins and
service history
of Australia’s
‘emergency
fighter’
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FIGHTER
REGULARS
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SKYWRITERS
Q&A
Your questions asked and answered
HOOKS’ TOURS
More superb colour images from
Mike Hooks’ collection
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MUNICH CRISIS
A welcome ‘breathing space’
A section of features
marking the 80th
anniversary of the
foundation of RAF Fighter
Command
IN-DEPTH
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CHIPMUNK SALUTE
Happy memories of the DH classic
COVER IMAGE:
A No 25 Squadron Blenheim
IF, flown by Plt Off Mike Herrick, shoots down a
Heinkel He 111. This print can be bought from
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ADAM TOOBY
COVER IMAGE AUSTRALIA/NZ:
The Temora
Aviation Museum’s CAC Boomerang.
ROB FOX
BLENHEIM NIGHT KILLS
Nocturnal Battle of Britain combats
V1 KILLERS
Destroying ‘doodlebugs’ at any cost
CENTRAL FIGHTER
ESTABLISHMENT
In-house evaluation
DUXFORD’S FINAL DAYS
The Hunter and Javelin era
CAFU DOVES
The DH twin’s sterling service with the
Civil Aviation Flying Unit
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EVENTS
Reports from the UK and Europe, plus
show news, previews and listings
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BOOKS
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t’s no surprise that the RAF Museum London’s
decision — first reported in the June
Aeroplane
— to do away with its dedicated Battle of Britain
hall has generated much adverse comment. To
some extent, I agree. If one event in the RAF’s history stands
out as totemic, the Battle is it. Without question the events
of 1940 were, and are, deserving of particular attention. But I
also find myself in sympathy with the opposing argument: that
no museum, no matter how large and prominent, can stay as
if preserved in aspic. Hendon’s Battle of Britain exhibition was
beginning to look dated and tired. At the very least, it was in
need of a refresh. And there is nothing to say that the Battle
will not be comprehensively covered in the revamped museum,
even with a number of aircraft — Ju 88, Defiant, Gladiator and
Tiger Moth — going to Cosford. In telling the 100-year story
of the RAF, it can hardly be ignored.
The wider issue here is about how museums cater for their
audiences, and the need periodically to change in order to do
so. Without meeting visitor expectations, they will simply not
survive. If updated interpretation helps draw people in, and
thus help ensure the preservation of the artefacts, where is the
problem? Of course, it needs to be done sympathetically, and
to strike a balance between a serious exposition of history and
the requirement for public appeal. But where will our aviation
museums, and their exhibits, be in 20 or 30 years’ time if they
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E D I TO R
don’t make efforts to attract new audiences? That is the bottom
line. In that context, the odd interactive exhibit or display
strikes me as a fairly small price to pay.
It was with great sadness that I learned of the death on
12 June of former
Aeroplane
contributor Robert F. Dorr. Bob
passed away in hospital in Fairfax, Virginia, after suffering for
some months with a brain tumour. A former US Air Force
airman and later a State Department foreign service officer,
he penned 80 books, some 6,000 magazine articles and 3,000
newspaper columns during a remarkable career. There were
few other aerospace authors whose writing I enjoyed more
than Bob’s, and his columns on the state of US military
aviation, whether in
Air Force Times
or our sister magazine
Combat Aircraft,
were a must-read. His splendid body of work,
whether on historical or modern subjects, is a fine legacy. Our
condolences to Bob’s family and friends.
Finally, as you’ll read on page 130, our September issue
focuses on British airlines and airliners. I’m conscious from
hearing from one or two of you that civil subjects — not by
design — have perhaps been a little neglected over recent
issues, so hopefully this will help redress the balance.
Ben Dunnell
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CONTRIBUTORS
THIS MONTH
Bob
B R OA D
Denis J.
C A LV E R T
James
K I G H T LY
Phil
WILKINSON
Bob read aeronautical engineering at
Cambridge and was in the University
Air Squadron. He went on to do his
national service as a pilot in the RAF
and decided to stay in as a regular
officer. Bob flew in the 2nd Tactical Air
Force, becoming a flight commander,
and then went on to the Central
Fighter Establishment. Subsequently
he was a staff officer on the Thor
IRBM force and went to NATO
headquarters in Turkey. Declared
medically unfit to fly, he left the RAF
in 1967 and joined IBM, becoming a
senior lecturer.
Denis is one of the most experienced
British aviation authors around, with a
particular interest in the post-war
period. Therefore, the 1966 SBAC
show at Farnborough (in which town,
incidentally, he was born) is an ideal
subject, marking as it did the end of
an era — the realisation had finally
come that no longer could the event
survive as a ‘British-only’ affair.
International participation, and
collaboration, was here to stay. Having
delved into the archives, Denis
recounts some of the highlights 50
years on.
A regular reader of
Aeroplane
since the
eighties, James finds being asked to
undertake major features for the
magazine a genuine privilege, even
given his role as a regular contributor.
This month’s Database section on the
Boomerang is, in part, a tribute to his
grandmother, the late Lucy Plummer
(née Whellams) — one of the first
women to go to work at the
Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation
Pty Ltd in 1936. It was a particular thrill
to be told by Lucy that she had been a
neighbour of the Boomerang’s designer
Fred David.
Retired from the RAF as an Air
Commodore in 1996 after 40 years’
service, Phil enjoyed nearly 4,000
cockpit hours in the Canberra,
Hunter, Buccaneer and — his
subject in this issue — the glorious
Chipmunk. Other types that appear
in his logbooks range from a replica
Wright ‘Flyer’ to the Tupolev Tu-142
‘Bear-F’. Assignments included
command of RAF Gatow in West
Berlin as the Wall came down, and
a period as UK defence and air
attaché in Moscow, hence the ‘Bear’
experience.
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