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More than a Century of History in the Air
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BRITISH HERITAGE
BROOKLANDS TRANSFORMED
IWM centenary
and Duxford’s
early years
Plus...
ILL LUCK OF
THE IRISH
HISTORY
A I R R AC I N G
MacRobertson racer that
didn’t make the grade
Early WW2 recce ops over Europe
THE ARMY’S
AERIAL SPIES
DATA
BASE
Air-to-air with the Warbird
Heritage Foundation
ALL-AMERICAN
WARBIRDS
MORANE
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Contents
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NEWS AND
COMMENT
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FROM THE EDITOR
NEWS
• Ex-RAFM Miles Hawk to Montrose
• CAF Dixie Wing P-63 flies again
• Pima gets more British types
• Beaufighter nose for Bristol museum
• D-Day veteran C-47 Britain-bound
… 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 45, no 4 • Issue no 528
April 2017
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FEATURES
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NO 140 SQUADRON
Early WW2 photo-recce operations
over Europe in Spitfires and
Blenheims by the Army’s ‘aerial spies’
IWM IN THE CRYSTAL PALACE
The Imperial War Museum was
founded 100 years ago. When it
opened in 1920, it had a very special
collection of Great War aircraft
DUXFORD’S EARLY
MUSEUM YEARS
Without Dr Christopher Roads,
IWM Duxford as we know it today
may never have existed
BROOKLANDS MUSEUM
A large-scale redevelopment
programme is enhancing this hugely
important heritage site in leaps
and bounds
BELLANCA
IRISH SWOOP
The Aeroplane
dubbed it ‘the
Shamrocket’ — sure enough, this
MacRobertson air racer didn’t make
the grade
AEROPLANE
MEETS…
BRIAN SMITH
The master showman of the air
display scene’s most memorable
massed Spitfire sequences
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WARBIRD HERITAGE
FOUNDATION
We talk to the founder of this
growing Illinois-based collection
DATABASE: MORANE-SAULNIER
SAULNIER
MS406
The Armée de l’Air’s
most numerous
fighter during the
Battle of France is
examined in detail
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by Tony Holmes
IN-DEPTH
PAGES
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15
100
DHA DROVER
de Havilland Australia’s rough and
ready three-engined transport
UK COVER IMAGE:
The Brooklands Museum’s
Concorde G-BBDG.
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US COVER IMAGE:
The Warbird Heritage
Foundation’s A-4B Skyhawk.
LUIGINO CALIARO
REGULARS
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SKYWRITERS
Q&A
Your questions asked and answered
HOOKS’ TOURS
More outstanding colour images
from Mike Hooks’ collection. This
month, some lovely silver EE
Lightnings
EVENTS
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AEROPLANE APRIL 2017
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ompiling our annual UK Aviation
Museums supplement provides a useful
opportunity to examine the ‘state of the
nation’ so far as the aeronautical heritage
sector is concerned. Let no-one be in any doubt that
it’s an area with significant challenges to overcome. It
is always difficult for many smaller museums to make
ends meet, and a few are reportedly reaching the end
of lease periods on their premises. At the other end, the
national institutions must face up to ongoing reductions
in the funding they receive from central government,
something money from LIBOR bank fines can only go so
far towards replacing. And all museums have to address
the perennial problem of offering attractions that appeal
to new audiences, many of whom are by no means as
naturally interested in aviation and military history as
their predecessors, and are used to being immersed in
digital technology.
But there are plenty of bright spots, too. This year’s
guide contains some welcome new entries like the
Fishburn Historic Aviation Centre and the Tornado
Heritage Centre, and the large-scale movement of
C
E D I TO R
airframes between the RAF Museum sites at Hendon
and Cosford — plus into and out of storage — helps
keep those institutions fresh. Major projects are far from
lacking; the Gatwick Aviation Museum’s opening last
year of its new hangar was justified reward for years of
toil, while other museums have similar progress to look
forward to. And at Brooklands Museum, covered in
depth this month, the future looks very bright indeed.
As you will discover, the ‘Re-engineering Brooklands’
project is but the tip of the iceberg. Its effort to set
up a sustainable means of training a new generation
of volunteers, not just to work at Brooklands but also
collections elsewhere, will hopefully help address one
of the scene’s other perennial bugbears: how to get
newcomers actively involved. The National Aviation
Heritage Skills Initiative of a few years ago was an
excellent effort, but its funding ran out. With funding
built in to the museum’s wider redevelopment scheme,
the Brooklands training programme is different. It’s
certainly deserving of support.
Ben Dunnell
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CONTRIBUTORS
THIS MONTH
Luigino
CALIARO
Andrew
F L E TC H E R
To n y
HOLMES
A r t h u r W. J . G .
ORD-HUME
Italian-born Luigino’s love of aviation
began at a young age. He has since
been able to fly air-to-air photo
sessions with all of the world’s major
jet fighter types and aerobatic teams,
amassing around 200 hours in
military jets. For some years now his
main interest, though, has been
focused on warbirds and aviation
history. His material appears in most
aviation magazines and he has
published a dozen books. In this
issue he provides another excellent
air-to-air story, on the Warbird
Heritage Foundation in Illinois, and
interviews its founder Paul Wood.
Born in the Black Country in the
English Midlands, Andrew was
interested in military history from
childhood. This subsequently
crystallised around World War Two
aviation. Later he served in the RAF
and worked in the aviation industry.
His research on RAF photographic
reconnaissance operations has seen
him meet and correspond with many
photo-recce veterans and their
families. This month he examines No
140 Squadron, RAF and its early-war
work over Europe in Spitfires and
Blenheims when it was part of Army
Co-operation Command.
Had France not been defeated in the
early summer of 1940, the home-grown
front-line fighter types that equipped
the Armée de l’Air would have gone on
to garner the legendary status that the
Hurricane and Spitfire have enjoyed.
However, the Luftwaffe swept the skies
clear of French fighters in less than six
weeks, with the pugnacious MS406
suffering particularly badly at the hands
of a rampant enemy. Subsequently
classed as an ‘also-ran’, Tony hopes that
his Database on Morane-Saulnier’s
MS406 will allow others to share the
enthusiasm he has for this somewhat
forgotten machine.
A founder member of the old Ultra-
Light Aircraft Association, later the PFA
and now the LAA, Arthur was largely
responsible for establishing today’s
extensive homebuilt aircraft
movement at a time when amateur-
made aircraft were virtually prohibited
in Britain. Pilot and aircraft designer,
he worked at various times with de
Havilland, Handley Page and Britten-
Norman. He established Phoenix
Aircraft and was the moving force
behind the single-seat homebuilt
Luton Minor. Today he devotes his
time to recording civil aviation history
and has written a number of books.
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