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NEWS AND
COMMENT
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FROM THE EDITOR
NEWS
• FHC Mosquito maiden flight
• Norwegian Starfighter airborne
• Scottish DH Dragon flies again
• Early Spitfire IX takes to the air
… and the month’s other top aircraft
preservation news
HANGAR TALK
Steve Slater’s monthly comment
column on the historic aircraft world
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Vol 44, no 11 • Issue no 523
November 2016
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FEATURES
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ED MALONEY
Frank B. Mormillo pays a special
tribute to this great pioneer of the
warbird preservation movement
B-23 DRAGON
The last flying example of the
Douglas bomber-turned-executive
transport
ANSON ACCIDENT
Remembering one of World War
Two’s many long-forgotten training
tragedies
FLUGMUSEUM MESSERSCHMITT
The unique Bavarian ‘flying museum’
devoted to Willy Messerschmitt’s
heritage
MONACO SEAPLANE CONTEST
Rare images of this 1912 event in
the principality
YAK-3
Will Greenwood on owning, flying
and operating the potent Soviet
fighter
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Recoveries of rare aircraft from
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FLYING BULLS SYCAMORE
The return to flight of a very historic
British helicopter
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Polikarpov
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Maslov provides
an in-depth
study of the
training biplane
that went to war
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IN-DEPTH
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REGULARS
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SKYWRITERS
Q&A
Your questions asked and answered
AIRCREW
Piloting Convair’s tricky XFY-1
tail-sitting vertical take-off fighter, the
infamous ‘Pogo’
EVENTS
Reports from Hahnweide, Duxford
and Zeltweg
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wonder when the term ‘warbird’ was first
heard in the UK to describe a preserved,
airworthy historic aircraft? Certainly, it has
its roots in the United States, where the
1940s and ’50s witnessed the first flowerings of the warbird
movement as we now know it. Many individuals were
involved, purchasing — for sums that seem tiny today —
surplus ex-military aeroplanes, engines, spare parts and
everything else necessary for their operation, and getting
P-40s, P-51s, Corsairs and many other famous types back
into the air.
One of the key figures in all this was, of course, Edward
T. Maloney. The founder of what is now the Planes of
Fame Air Museum can rightfully be described as a pioneer.
He was, in many ways, the American equivalent of Richard
Shuttleworth — a far-sighted visionary who recognised
early on the importance of keeping historic aircraft flying,
and took steps to ensure just that. The scope of Planes of
Fame’s own fleet, based at Chino, tells its own story. So too
do airframes once in the hands of Ed and Planes of Fame
but which were traded to other owners. Many of them
would not otherwise have survived for future generations
of enthusiasts to see.
The recent passing of Ed Maloney marked, to use a
well-worn cliché, the end of an era in aircraft preservation.
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E D I TO R
He was one of the few remaining links to those post-war
days — days so vital to the development of the burgeoning
warbird scene we enjoy around the world. All the while he
remained hugely interested and engaged, a key figure at
Planes of Fame, and an inspiration to many.
To mark Ed’s loss, we enlisted his old friend Frank B.
Mormillo to write a tribute for this issue of
Aeroplane
—
when the copy and photos arrived, we simply had to make
more space. I hope you’ll agree that Frank has done Ed and
his legacy proud.
Elsewhere, there is more evidence that the movement
spearheaded by the likes of Ed Maloney is in fine health.
We report this month on a remarkable series of maiden
post-restoration flights: another Mosquito, Europe’s only
airworthy F-104 Starfighter, and a very interesting combat
veteran Spitfire IX. But the efforts of those engaged in
preserving civil historic aircraft must also be applauded,
and in that context the beautiful de Havilland Dragon
newly completed by Mike Souch and his team at MK
Aviation/Aero Antiques, and just delivered to its owner in
Scotland, stands out. What a marvellous example of the
restorer’s art.
Ben Dunnell
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CONTRIBUTORS
THIS MONTH
Mikhail
M A S LOV
F ra n k B .
M O R M I L LO
Ro b e r t M .
ST I T T
Dr Andreas
ZEITLER
Mikhail was born in Mary — then part
of the USSR, now in Turkmenistan — in
1954. He graduated from the Moscow
Aviation Institute with a degree in
mechanical engineering, and worked as
a structural design engineer for Tupolev
from 1982-86 before transferring to
TsAGI’s engineering information
department. From the late 1990s he
became actively involved in the
restoration of historic aircraft, including
airworthy examples of the Po-2,
I-15bis, I-153, I-16, DIT and MiG-3.
Mikhail is also a leading author and
authority on Soviet aviation history.
Frank B. Mormillo (he uses the
middle initial because there are three
other Frank Mormillos in his family)
can’t remember a time when he was
not fascinated by aircraft. He still
recalls the memory of fighters roaring
overhead during post-WW2 Veterans
Day parades, and while in high school
he became involved with the Planes
of Fame Air Museum. Mormillo
began his career as a photojournalist
during his college days, and has
specialised in photographing aircraft,
motor racing and military subjects
ever since.
Following technical training with
Hawker Siddeley, Robert worked for
five years in the South-west Pacific,
developing a keen interest in aviation
archaeology. Having moved to Canada,
he joined the aerial firefighting industry,
where he documented the ‘retired’
types employed. Other in-depth works
followed, including a book on the B-17
with RAF Coastal Command. He is now
writing the history of Canadian aerial
survey pioneer Spartan Air Services.
Robert is an active pilot and is restoring
one of the Fleet Canucks on which he
learned to fly.
Says Andreas, “I have had the honour
and pleasure to accompany the
amazing collection of Messerschmitt
aircraft at Manching for several years
now. With strong support from the
team, many photo opportunities have
arisen during that time. Gaining an
insight into the Flugmuseum
Messerschmitt’s operations made me
realise just how demanding a job it is
to keep these precious pieces of
aviation history airworthy. My article
in
Aeroplane
this month is dedicated
to their daily work on those amazing
aircraft.”
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