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NEWS AND
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FROM THE EDITOR
NEWS
• ‘Kate’ to be rebuilt at Pearl Harbor
• British classic jets leave for Jordan
• Combat veteran P-40 flies
• New home for RN Historic Flight
… and the month’s other top aircraft
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HANGAR TALK
Steve Slater’s monthly comment
column on the historic aircraft
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Vol 44, no 6 • Issue no 518
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FEATURES
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SOPWITH SNIPE
The Vintage Aviator Ltd’s Gene
DeMarco tells us about flying the
late-World War One fighter
PHOTO-RECCE LIBERATORS
Consolidated-Vultee F-7s of the
US Fifth Air Force in action over
New Guinea
SPITFIRE FLIGHT EXPERIENCES
The operators around the UK
offering the chance to fly in, or
with, the classic Supermarine fighter
DORNIER KOMET AND
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All-metal airliners that helped in
the post-WW1 resurgence of the
German company
VC-121
COLUMBINE II
Resurrecting the first aircraft ever to
use the callsign ‘Air Force One’
DELTA DUSTERS
How crop-dusting around the
southern US states was the
foundation of a famous airline
RAF MUSEUM
Collection surveys are under way at
Hendon prior to the closure of the
Battle of Britain hall
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service of this RAF light
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FLYING THE F-102
RAF fighter pilot Ron Lloyd’s exchange
tour on the USAF’s Delta Dagger
REGULARS
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More superb colour images from
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t is understandable that the Civil Aviation
Authority’s response to the Shoreham accident
should have involved a degree not just of doing
something, but being seen to do something.
There is a need to ensure confidence and avoid further difficult
headlines, after all. However, with this approach, no matter
what the issue, comes the risk of going too far — of seeking
to placate, without good reason, the most extreme ends of
public and media opinion, and addressing perceived rather
than actual concerns. Such would seem to be the case with
some of the CAA’s new display regulations, outlined on 14
April in the final report from its civil air display review.
A number of its proposals strike me as reasonable and
proportionate. Others do not. In particular, the change to the
closest display line allowed is bound to have an adverse effect
for little safety benefit. Previously, an aircraft performing a
flypast (as opposed to aerobatics) at an indicated air speed
of under 100kt could fly at a distance 50m from the
crowd, rising to 100m for speeds of 100-200kt, 150m for
200-300kt, and 200m above 300kt. The CAA has now
decreed that “for light aircraft, with a maximum weight
of 1,200kg and operating speeds of less than 150kt IAS
throughout the display, the minimum separation is 150m”.
This would appear to be a solution in search of a problem.
An individual light aircraft performing a non-aerobatic
I
E D I TO R
display will now be pushed so far from the crowd as to render
the spectacle of its participation questionable, at best. And to
what end? The CAA has made no case, in public at least, as to
why the risk of such aircraft conducting flypasts parallel to the
crowdline was unacceptable at the previous distances.
The separation distances now required by the CAA — those
for other classes of aircraft and aerobatic manoeuvres having
also been extended — largely fall into line with those of the
Military Aviation Authority (MAA). In fact, the minimum
150m requirement for light aircraft is an exception, since
under MAA rules the nearest display line for any category
of aeroplane is 230m from the crowd. Both, in my view,
are unnecessarily restrictive. One can understand why the
MAA may not take such aircraft into account — how often
does a solo Auster, Cub, Moth or First World War machine,
for instance, display at a military-regulated show? But I
had hoped that the CAA might show greater awareness of
the part such aircraft play on the display scene, the nature
of their routines, and the characteristics of those venues at
which they are more prevalent. Some have criticised the CAA
for inadequate consultation with the display industry in
formulating its revised rules. The unwelcome effects of that are
now starting to become clear.
Ben Dunnell
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CONTRIBUTORS
THIS MONTH
Bill
CAHILL
Geoff
JONES
Ro n
L LOY D
Richard
PAV E R
Bill is a retired US Air Force intelligence
officer who contracts for the
Department of Defense in the
Washington DC area. An intelligence
weapons officer with squadron and
wing-level experience, he has also
served on the Air Staff and in an inter-
agency capacity outside of the DoD. Bill
is a graduate of San Jose State University
and has Masters degrees from Embry
Riddle Aeronautical University and the
National Defense Intelligence College.
He has been published in
Air Power
History, FlyPast,
the
USAF Weapons
Review
and
C4ISR Journal.
A Barry-based writer, aviation
photographer and pilot, Geoff flies his
Jodel D120 from Shobdon. Travelling in
the USA 15 years ago he visited a small
air display at Thomaston, Georgia —
there he first encountered Jim St Julien
and his Stearman. Subsequently, Geoff
used to meet Jim each year at Sun ‘n Fun
in Florida and visited his home at Berry
Hill near Atlanta, where Jim would chat
about his crop-dusting exploits. Known
throughout the US south as ‘The Saint’,
St Julien died in 2010. This month, Geoff
presents his story, and that of seeding
and dusting by air in those parts.
Ron graduated from the RAF College
Cranwell in 1960. He piloted several
early jet fighters, with tours on Javelins,
Gnats and F-102s, and time on Hunters,
Lightnings and Phantoms. In 1968, as
featured in
Aeroplane
two years ago, he
flew Spitfires and Buchóns during the
filming of ‘The Battle of Britain’.
Exchanges with the USAF and RAAF
added geographic variety. He took early
retirement from the RAF to enter the
world of international business, but
instructed with flying clubs at weekends
until 2000, and still flies aerobatics
occasionally.
Richard has followed the development
of UK warbird flight experiences for
Aeroplane
since the first such
operations began to spring up in this
country. For this issue, he details the
various organisations giving the
chance to fly in, or with, a Spitfire — a
feature that gave him the opportunity
to conduct the first air-to-air sortie
with Martin Phillips’ Spitfire IX RR232.
Away from airworthy warbirds, Richard
also visited the RAF Museum to get the
lowdown on its current collection
surveys, in advance of Hendon’s Battle
of Britain hall closing.
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