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MERLIN-ENGINED AIRCRAFT
July 2017
Issue No 531,
Vol 45,
No 7
HISTORY IN THE AIR SINCE 1911
MERLIN
DATABASE
ON THE LEGENDARY
BRITISH ENGINE
MAGIC
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NEWS AND
COMMENT
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FROM THE EDITOR
NEWS
• Shuttleworth’s Camel flies
• Dual power for two-seat Bf 109G
• Yorkshire ‘Bucc’ back in FAA marks
…and the month’s other top aircraft
preservation news
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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First flight:
6 November 1935
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Aircraft shown:
Hurricane IIb Z5252/‘61
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First flight:
5 March 1936
Aircraft shown:
Spitfire Vc BR323,
No 249 Squadron, RAF
HAWKER HURRICANE
SUPERMARINE SPITFIRE
First flight:
10 March 1936
Aircraft shown:
Battle I P5232,
No 150 Squadron, RAF
FAIREY BATTLE
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First flight:
11 August 1937
Aircraft shown:
Defiant TTI AA507,
Unit, RAF
No 26 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation
BOULTON PAUL DEFIANT
First flight:
25 November 1940
W4050
Aircraft shown:
Mosquito prototype
DE HAVILLAND MOSQUITO
First flight with Merlins:
June 1940
Aircraft shown:
Beaufighter IIF R2270
BRISTOL BEAUFIGHTER
First flight:
7 January 1942
894 Squadron, FAA
Aircraft shown:
Seafire III PR256,
SUPERMARINE SEAFIRE
1942
First flight with Merlin:
13 October
Aircraft shown:
P-51D Mustang 44-72308,
Group, USAAF
335th Fighter Squadron/4th Fighter
NORTH AMERICAN MUSTANG
First flight:
19 April 1944
No 65 Squadron, RAF
Aircraft shown:
Hornet F1 PX232,
DE HAVILLAND HORNET
SPIRIT OF ST LOUIS
FILM
Insights into making the classic 1957
movie about Charles Lindbergh’s
pioneering feat
HONG KONG WESSEX
Recalling the last RAF aircraft to leave
Hong Kong before the territory was
handed back to China, 20 years ago
AEROPLANE
MEETS…
PAUL WARREN WILSON
Heading up Plane Sailing’s Catalina
operation has given this ex-RAF
Harrier pilot some tremendous
experiences
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the most famous
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shown:
Whitley V N1380,
First flight:
17 March 1936
Aircraft
ARMSTRONG WHITWORTH WHITLEY
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No 102
shown:
Halifax I L9489, No
First flight:
25 October 1939
Aircraft
HANDLEY PAGE HALIFAX
35 Squadron, RAF
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Lancaster X KB762,
First flight:
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No 419 Squadron, RCAF
shown:
Lincoln B2 RF562,
First flight:
9 June 1944
Aircraft
AVRO LINCOLN
No 230 Operational Conversion Unit,
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by Chris Sandham-Bailey (www.inkworm.com)
Artworks by Pete West. Beaufighter
by the Merlin.
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Famous Merlin-engined aircraft from
Hurricane to Lincoln — and a superb
wartime Lancaster image from the
Aeroplane
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FEATURES
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BRITISH CLASSIC JETS
In the wake of many aircraft being
grounded and sold, how does the
future look for the UK’s ex-military jet
scene?
DARDANELLES CAMPAIGN
The pioneering use of shipborne
aircraft during 1915 that
revolutionised naval and aerial
warfare
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Royal Hellenic Air Force Ansons,
Blenheims and Baltimores fighting
alongside the RAF
SPITFIRE NH341
The new two-seat Spitfire that’s
helping Aero Legends develop its
ambitious aviation heritage business
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SKYWRITERS
Q&A
Your questions asked and answered
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BRIEFING FILE
Our new feature looking under the
skin of aviation technology and
tactics. This time we examine the
RAF’s wartime Oboe bombing aid
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EVENTS
Major summer airshows reviewed and
previewed
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COVER IMAGE:
Jerry Yagen’s Mosquito FB26
KA114 leads Doug Brooker’s Spitfire IXT MH367
and Graham Bethell’s P-51D Mustang 44-74829.
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he growth in Spitfire
Boultbee, of course, already offers
experience flights, whether
P-51 Mustang passenger flights; it is
flying alongside or in
now introducing Will Greenwood’s
these famous aircraft, has
Yak-3 to its rides programme, and
marked nothing short of a sea-
uses Hurricane Heritage’s Hurricane
change in the UK warbird scene.
R4118 for ‘fly alongside’ sorties.
Those organisations, aircraft and
Who knows what else might be in
pilots involved are busier than ever,
the pipeline?
such has been the level of demand.
For some of you reading this,
It shows no signs of slowing,
there will, I know, be a certain sense
either, even several years after the
of what one might term ‘Spitfire
CAA’s enlightened rule change
fatigue’. However, such are the levels
that permitted
of preservation
Demand for Spitfire
activity relating to
such activity. No
wonder two-seat
experience flights shows
the Supermarine
Spitfires are so
classic, and the
no signs of slowing, even
stories about the
sought-after,
hence projects
type’s service
several years after the
such as NH341
days that still
CAA’s enlightened rule
for Aero Legends
deserve telling,
change that permitted
that we cover
that it can hardly
this month.
be ignored. But
such activity
Here we have
if the ‘Spit’ isn’t
an example of some very cutting-
your bag, we’ve always got plenty
edge restoration and rebuilding
of other subjects in our pages that
techniques on the part of Historic
you won’t ordinarily find elsewhere.
Flying and its partners in the
Our Database feature in this issue
effort — witness, for example,
is a new departure, in dealing
the manufacturing by Maurice
not with an aircraft but an aero
Hammond’s Eye Tech Engineering
engine, the Rolls-Royce Merlin.
of new propeller hubs from billet
Meanwhile, our look at the last RAF
steel, a fascinating subject in itself
aircraft permanently stationed in
— and a forward-looking operator
Hong Kong, the Westland Wessex
keen to make a commercial success
helicopters of No 28 Squadron,
of warbird ownership, while paying
is a rather more recent topic than
historical tribute and inspiring
is perhaps usual for
Aeroplane
—
new generations as it goes about
however, the Wessex is such a classic
it. No doubt at all, this is a very
type, and the withdrawal from Hong
commendable endeavour by all
Kong a piece of history that deserves
concerned. And, looking at the
not to be forgotten. Do let us know
wider UK warbird experience
what you think!
Ben Dunnell
industry, it’s not just Spitfires that
are involved. Goodwood-based
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.
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CONTRIBUTORS
THIS MONTH
SIMON BECK
Simon has had a lifelong
interest in aviation, his
specialist areas being US
military aircraft, civil
airliners and aviation film
history. He owns two
websites: www.
uswarplanes.net,
cataloguing aircraft
designations and serial numbers, and www.
c82packet.com, the first and only site dedicated
to the history of the Fairchild C-82. He has
written several articles on aviation subjects and
last year published his first book,
The Aircraft-
Spotter’s Film and Television Companion.
He is
currently completing a large volume on the
history of the C-82. Until recently, Simon had
worked as a senior editor for a TV broadcaster in
New Zealand.
JOHN CARR
John, who lives in Greece,
recently retired from a
career as a foreign
correspondent for
publications including
The
Times
and the
Wall Street
Journal Europe,
as well as
freelance broadcasting. He
has always been an
aviation enthusiast and is the author of
On
Spartan Wings: The Royal Hellenic Air Force in
World War Two and The Defence and Fall of
Greece, 1940-41,
published by Pen & Sword in
2012 and 2013. “This is my first contribution to
Aeroplane”,
he says, “and you might say it
realises one of my lifelong ambitions!”
GRANT NEWMAN
Employed by Air New
Zealand as a line
maintenance engineer,
Grant services regional
airliners at night and is a
freelance author by day.
His hobbies include
photography and flying, of
which he does precious
little these days. Prior to becoming an aircraft
engineer, Grant’s career was in museums, with
time spent at the Royal Air Force Museum at
Hendon and at Scotland’s National Museum of
Flight at East Fortune.
RICHARD PAVER
“Having flown with many
of the UK’s ex-military jets
over the last 10 years”,
says Richard, “the decline
in numbers that we are
now seeing is of huge
concern. However, the
Spitfire magic is clearly
very much alive and well,
and I do hope that readers
will enjoy reading about this country’s very latest
Spitfire to fly, Aero Legends’ NH341.”
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