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F R E E
COLD WAR SUPPLEMENT
www.aeroplanemonthly.com
June 2017
Issue No 530,
Vol 45,
No 6
HISTORY IN THE AIR SINCE 1911
COLD WAR
• CLANDESTINE RAF
VALIANT OPS
• BRITISH JETS TO
THE SOVIET UNION
• MiG DEFECTORS
• SECRET STASI
SURVEILLANCE
FLIGHTS
… AND MORE
JUNE 2017
£4.50
DATABASE
DOUGLAS A-20
RACER’S RETURN
The comeback 30 years ago
of Comet
Grosvenor House
Contents
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NEWS AND
COMMENT
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FROM THE EDITOR
NEWS
• Waco Hadrian for Dumfries museum
• Allison-engined Buchón flies
• Shuttleworth Spitfire fires up
…and the month’s other top aircraft
preservation news
FEATURES
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PAUL KEPPELER COLLECTION
The US jet warbird owner tells us
about flying his Canadian-built T-33
and newly-restored F-86 Sabre
SALUTE TO MALTA GC: RADAR
The key role played by Watson-
Watt’s innovation in defending the
Mediterranean island
COMET’S COMEBACK
The first return to flight, 30 years
ago, of Shuttleworth’s DH88 Comet
Grosvenor House
AEROPLANE
MEETS…
NIGEL LAMB
It was a big step from the Rhodesian
Air Force to professional aerobatic
pilot, but this versatile aviator made
it with aplomb — and put that
experience to good use in warbirds
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SPECIAL SECTION
BRITISH JETS TO THE USSR
The sale of British jet engine
technology to the Soviets:
foolishness exemplified, or
hard-headed realpolitik?
ARCTIC RECONNAISSANCE
Boeing F-13s of US Strategic Air
Command over the Arctic at the
outset of the Cold War
THE MiGS OF BORNHOLM
The Danish island of Bornholm was
a popular destination for defecting
Polish MiG-15 pilots — and what
intrigue resulted
NO 543 SQUADRON VALIANTS
Clandestine recce missions in the
most unsung of the ‘V-bombers’
MILITARY SPONSORED
AIR SERVICE
How military crews in civilian
airliners would have kept West
Berlin’s aerial ‘lifelines’ open
STASI AERIAL SURVEILLANCE
An exclusive insider’s view of
the East German secret service’s
airborne activities
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HANGAR TALK
Steve Slater’s comment on the
historic aircraft world
FLIGHT LINE
Reflections on aviation history with
Denis J. Calvert
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REGULARS
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SKYWRITERS
Q&A
HOOKS’ TOURS
More superb colour images from
Mike Hooks’ magnificent collection
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AEROPLANE
ARCHIVE:
JOHN TAYLOR
The Essex homebuilder who created
a light aircraft legend
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DATABASE:
IN-DEPTH
DOUGLAS
PAGES
DB-7/A-20
James Kightly tells the
fascinating story of
this Second World War
attack bomber
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REVIEWS
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EVENTS
Including a special ‘behind the
scenes’ look at organising the
RAF Cosford Air Show
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NEXT MONTH
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COVER IMAGE UK:
An F52 reconnaissance
camera is checked before being put in a No 543
Squadron Valiant B(PR)1 at its RAF Wyton base.
IWM (RAF-T 972)
COVER IMAGE US:
Paul Keppeler flying his
recently restored Canadair Sabre.
LUIGINO CALIARO
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permissions sought last year from the
t was interesting, in talking to Nigel
CAA was in decline, and the fear is that
Lamb for this month’s ‘Aeroplane
the trend will continue. A good deal
meets…’ feature, to reflect on the air
of that can be put down to exactly the
display scene of the 1980s. When
situation I describe.
Nigel started out on the Marlboro
It’s not just about aerobatic acts,
Aerobatic Team of Pitts Specials, the
either. I know of a couple of historic
tutelage he received was exceptional. He
aircraft operators who are no longer
and his colleagues flew at events large
keen for their aeroplanes to display
and small, right across the UK and on
at events where they will be the only
occasion overseas. Sometimes they’d be
item. In those situations, the pilot acts
on their own as a solo, elsewhere they
as an ‘airborne’ flying display director,
came together as a duo or trio. They
bringing with it an added element of
had to work to different regulations
personal risk, and an
depending on the
nature of the event,
It’s the ‘nursery slopes’
extra administrative
burden both for
adapting to each
location’s individual
of display flying at village
themselves and
demands. And,
fairs and garden fetes that
the operator. One
can absolutely
with so many
are most at risk. Many
understand the
displays to do in
reluctance to take
a single day, good
may simply not bother
that on. The effect
organisation and
with a flying display
on the future
timekeeping was
sustainability of the
essential, to say
industry is concerning, and one of the
nothing of navigational skills in those
many points that needs to be addressed
pre-GPS days.
as the consequences of the Shoreham
Much of that hasn’t changed, but
accident are worked through.
one aspect has — or, at least, seems
about to. The events at which the
We were very sad to hear of the
Marlboro team appeared were not
death on 30 March of aviation writer
all airshows; far from it. At many of
and
Aeroplane
contributor Geoff Jones.
them the Pitts display might have
As a boy, Geoff lived within a short bike
been the sole flying item: carnivals,
ride of Cardiff ’s Rhoose Airport, and
village fairs, garden fetes and the like.
spent many days there watching and
Those contributed just as much to the
photographing aircraft. A hydrologist
process of building experience as the big
and civil engineer by profession, he
occasions. For the newly-fledged display
learned to fly in 1978. Writing for
pilot, they’re arguably of even greater
magazines the world over, airliners,
importance. Yet it’s those very same
classics, antiques and homebuilts
‘nursery slopes’ of display flying that are
were his main areas of interest, and he
perhaps most at threat from the CAA’s
published 17 books with an 18th in
new requirements — the increased
preparation at the time of his passing.
charges, the enhanced risk assessments.
Our condolences and best wishes to
Many organisers of that type of event
Geoff ’s family and friends.
may simply not bother with a flying
Ben Dunnell
display. The number of flying display
Aeroplane
traces its lineage back to the weekly
The Aeroplane,
founded by C. G. Grey in 1911 and published until 1968. It was
relaunched as a monthly in 1973 by Richard T. Riding, editor for
25 years until 1998.
CONTRIBUTORS
THIS MONTH
DOUG GORDON
Doug’s interest in aerial
reconnaissance and ‘spy
flights’ in particular was
engendered during
several visits to the US in
the 1980s and 1990s to
attend reunions of pilots
and aircrew, many of
whom had been involved
in both strategic and tactical reconnaissance
since the end of WW2. These provided an
opportunity to chat with pilots who had
participated in overflights of the Soviet Union
and China, and who had fascinating stories to
tell. Since then Doug has written extensively
about these clandestine missions.
VOLKER LIEBSCHER
From 1973 until the end of
the German Democratic
Republic in 1990, Volker
was a member of the
country’s state intelligence
service, the Ministerium
für Staatssicherheit. He
specialised first in signals
intelligence and then
electronic intelligence, ending up at the rank of
Hauptmann (captain). Since 1990, Volker has
trained as a network technician, and from 1993
he has worked in the private security field. He
has also written a highly acclaimed book,
‘Relais’, about the history of East Germany’s
aerial surveillance operations.
DICK VAN DER AART
Dick is a Dutch journalist
and aviation historian. He
was defence
correspondent for a
national daily newspaper
and senior editor with
NOS Television News. He
has written many
magazine articles and
several books about air intelligence operations,
his first book,
Aerial Espionage — Secret
Intelligence Flights by East and West,
having
also been published in Great Britain, the US and
Japan. Dick likes to visit international archives,
researching aviation secrets of the Cold War.
JAKOB WHITFIELD
After an undergraduate
degree in aeronautical
engineering at Imperial
College and working for a
natural gas pipeline
company, Jakob
completed a masters in
the history of science and
technology, and a
doctorate at the University of Manchester on the
history of Metropolitan Vickers’ gas turbine
designs. He now works as a writer and editor,
with a particular interest in history, science, and
technology, especially relating to aeroplanes.
ESTABLISHED 1911
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