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STORY
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NEWS AND
COMMENT
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FROM THE EDITOR
NEWS
• Rare P-51H Mustang re-surfaces
• Caproni bomber replica flies
• BE2e arrives at Stow Maries
… 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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UK AVIATION
MUSEUMS 2015
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A-36 APACHE
The first air-to-air photos of the
Collings Foundation’s A-36 Apache,
remembering the dive-bomber’s role
in the Mediterranean
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TRIMOTORS IN NEW GUINEA
The Ford Trimotor saw service in
some very rugged climes, few more
so than New Guinea
AEROPLANE
ARCHIVE:
GOTHA Go 150
Revisiting the German light twin that
The Aeroplane
tested exclusively in1938
DATABASE:
SAAB J 21
Jan Forsgren
details the unusual
Swedish fighter
that proved itself
most effectively
as a ground
attack platform
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AEROPLANE’S
VE DAY
70th anniversary special
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‘MANNA’ AND ‘CHOWHOUND’
Their strategic bombing tasks all but
over, at the very end of the war in
Europe Lancasters and B-17s helped
save the Dutch people
BERLIN IN 1945
For the victorious Allies, Berlin’s
airfields helped in efforts at getting
the destroyed city — and the rest of
Germany — back on its feet
VICTORY CELEBRATIONS
During 1945 and ’46, the UK’s
celebrations of wartime victory
contained significant aviation
elements
VIKING AND TUDOR
Britain’s first two post-war airliners
enjoyed mixed fortunes
AEROPLANE
MEETS…
ELLY SALLINGBOE
The operator of B-17G
Sally B
recalls
the highs and lows of this famous
heavy bomber’s 40 years on the
display circuit
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REGULARS
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Q&A
Your questions asked and answered
AIRCREW
The famed ‘stolen aeroplane’ act, an
airshow staple for decades and as
much-loved as ever — especially
when flown in a yellow Piper Cub
BOOKS
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SPITFIRE OVER PRAGUE
Stephen Stead, owner-pilot of Spitfire
TE184, recalls a very historic
‘deployment’ last summer
COVER IMAGE:
The Battle of Britain Memorial
Flight’s Lancaster heralds our VE Day special.
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NEXT MONTH
FEATURES
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TSR2: 50 YEARS ON
Half a century after its cancellation,
a balanced re-assessment of how
BAC’s advanced strike aircraft proved
a project too far
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Aeroplane
traces its lineage back
to the weekly
The Aeroplane,
founded by C. G. Grey in 1911
and published until 1968. It was
re-launched as a monthly in 1973
by Richard T. Riding, editor for 25
years until 1998.
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ow people still talk about the TSR2.
This I find remarkable, given that half a
century has now passed since the type’s
cancellation. It dominates many memories
of the British aviation industry in the 1960s, despite the
great accomplishments achieved during that period in
relation to projects that actually reached fruition, such
as the Harrier and Concorde. We now know much more
than was deemed publishable ‘in period’ about the TSR2
programme’s failings, and the benefit of hindsight allows
us rationally to reflect on the place of Britain’s aerospace
industry in the global market. To some, the axing of
the TSR2 was — and remains — deeply symbolic of an
industry laid low by politicians and incapable thereafter
of returning to its former strength, to a time when British
aircraft were sold the world over and we led the world
in aeronautical innovation. Not to me. Since the TSR2,
it is of course true that we have not seen the fruition of
any new all-British combat aircraft type intended for
production. Ought we now, though, to be able to view as
inevitable the move from independence to international
collaboration? If the TSR2’s cancellation set — no matter
how painfully — the UK’s military aerospace industry
on the road to a more affordable, and thus more realistic,
future, its sacrifice was not for nothing.
In this month discussing the TSR2 programme for
Aeroplane,
Denis J. Calvert offers what we hope is a
H
E D I TO R
balanced, sober perspective. If you start reading his feature
in the hope finally of finding validation of some great anti-
TSR2 conspiracy, you will look in vain. Was it the victim
of a secret deal with the Americans to sell us the F-111? Of
this there is no proof. Was Labour Prime Minister Harold
Wilson a Communist sympathiser hell-bent on destroying
British defence? No. The truth is rather more prosaic:
the programme lacked sufficient management, it suffered
severe delays and cost over-runs, and, arguably, the British
aviation industry was already past the point at which it
could hope to compete on equal, independent terms with
its US counterpart. As a totemic symbol of decline, the
end of the TSR2 — rather like the end of the Empire —
is undeniably potent. But, as our article outlines, such
notions stand up to little scrutiny.
That two examples still exist makes the TSR2 one of
those types better-served by the preservation movement.
Both are listed in our UK Aviation Museums 2015
supplement, one in which more than 100 collections
around Britain are featured. I hope you find it interesting
and useful. Where possible the information contained
within has been confirmed and updated by the museums
themselves — should you notice any errors, however,
please do get in touch via the contact details on page 106.
Ben Dunnell
From the
CONTRIBUTORS
THIS MONTH
Denis J.
C A LV E R T
Mike
H O O KS
Bob
PIPER
Stephen
ST E A D
The TSR2 has long been one of
Denis’s great interests, and his
research for the 50th anniversary
feature enabled him to meet and
talk with a number of people who
worked on the aircraft or, in one
case, actually piloted it. He is greatly
indebted to them all. Denis has but
two major regrets in life. One is that,
even if he was only a young lad at
the time, he never saw TSR2 on one
of the 24 flights it made in late 1964
and early 1965. The other, for the
record, is that he never met Debbie
Harry.
Mike Hooks was editor of
Airports
International
from 1967-75. He then
joined the Society of British Aerospace
Companies (SBAC), where his duties
included managing the press centre at
the Farnborough Air Shows. Now retired,
Mike has long been a key member of
the
Aeroplane
team, bringing his vast
experience as a life-long enthusiast to
bear. He compiles our monthly ‘Q&A’
feature, delves into his archives for
‘Hooks’ Tours’, provides all sorts of
assistance to the editor and writes feature
articles, such as this month’s piece on
the victory celebrations in 1945-46.
Bob began flying in Papua New
Guinea in 1967. He completed
training in Australia and is current in
all single-engine Cessna types. Bob
was an RAAF historian for 15 years,
and has now been an aviation writer
and photographer for 40,
specialising in World War Two
aircraft disappearances,
mysteries and crashes. He acts as a
consultant to the RAAF, US Army and
the Japanese government on
wartime aircraft crashes and missing
aircraft and personnel in Australia
and New Guinea.
Stephen learnt to fly through an RAF
flying scholarship and continued with
the East Midlands University Air
Squadron on the Bulldog, after which
he gravitated to classic aerobatic types
like the Pitts. With many years living
and working in Eastern Europe, which
remains a focus, he became well-
versed in the art of flying Zlins and
Yaks. Currently based in Switzerland,
Stephen operates several classics
including his Yak-3 from Bremgarten,
Spitfire TE184 at Biggin Hill and a
Jungmeister. He also heads up the
Classic Aircraft Displays organisation.
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