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Keeping a WW2

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Fw 200

Condor

British Aircraft

Dr Alfred Price

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Focke-Wulf ’s

“Scourge of the

Atlantic”

Speciﬁ cations

From Mosquito & Horsa

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40 YEARS AFTER THE ORIGINAL FILM, WE EXAMINE

THE AIRCRAFT USED IN TH E FL I G H T O F TH E PH O E N I X

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From the Editor

WHILE BRITAIN WAS CELEBRATING Guy

Fawkes’ Night with ﬁ reworks displays up and

down the country, a different but equally

This month’s front cover photograph, by RICHARD

PAVER, depicts Paul Warren Wilson captaining Plane

Sailing’s Consolidated Catalina G-PBYA near its

Duxford base on July 8, 2005 — see pages 44–52 of

this issue for a major feature on the aircraft

dazzling show was happening in Ontario,

Canada: the unveiling and dedication of newly-restored

Handley Page Halifax NA337 at the RCAF Memorial

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RIGHT THE AEROPLANE , JANUARY 4, 1946

This issue’s cover, from 60 years ago, featured a Rolls-Royce jet engine

advertisement; inside was a feature on the Short Seaford ﬂ ying-boat

Launched as a monthly magazine in 19

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Contents

Januar y 2006 Vol 34 No 1 Issue No 393 (on sale December 1)

Features

12 The Sea Fury Kings

Michael O’Leary visits the town

of Ione in Nor ther n Califor nia,

“Sea Fury Central”, and talks to

two of its leading lights

Regulars

4 News

All the latest news from the

aircraft preservation world,

compiled by Tony Har mswor th

17 Contact!

Paul Coggan comments on the

preservation scene

22 Getting the Picture

Lt Gen Bill Carr CMM DFC CD

recalls ﬂ ying the blue Spitﬁ res of

the RAF’s No 683 Photographic

Reconnaissance Squadron

18 Skywriters

Readers’ letters on a wide

variety of topics

28 Aeroplane Explains

Bill Gunston traces the

early evolution of wing design

— monoplane or biplane?

EDITOR’S

CHOICE

21 Flying Visit

A potted interview with

Admiral of the Fleet Sir

Benjamin Bathurst

30 A Spartan Life

Rob Neil describes the restora-

tion of the world’s only Spartan

Three-Seater biplane

35 Picture of the Month

This month’s archive print offer

features the Westland Wyvern

carrier strike aircraft

36 A Dedicated Effort

Pictures from Trenton, Ontario,

Canada, of newly-restored

Handley Page Halifax NA337

43 Looking Back

Nick Stroud browses in The

Aeroplane of 80 years ago

38 Rising from the Ashes

Simon Beck re-examines the

original cinema classic The

Flight of the Phoenix , released 40

years ago, and traces the

aircraf t used in the ﬁ lm

47 Reader Holiday Offer

Booking for 2006 — a Grand

Aviation Tour of South Africa

and a trip to Paris and the La

Ferté-Alais Air Show

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53 High Society

The Avro Historical Group

62 Database

The Focke-Wulf

Fw 200 Condor

Our special in-depth section

this month is by World War

Two German military aviation

specialist Dr Alfred Price. It

includes scale drawings by

Tim Hall and a cutaway

drawing by John Weal

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44 Man with a Mission

Tim Skeet reports from

Duxford on the challenges

of keeping Plane Sailing’s

Catalina in the air

COVER

STORY

54 Swords – and

Ploughshares

Barry Jones’s second article

on British ofﬁ cial aircraft

speciﬁ cations

60 Preservation Proﬁ le

Lufthansa Flight Training’s

Saab 91B Saﬁ r D-EBED

85 Navigator

Aeroplane’s monthly reviews

and listings — see opposite for

details

62

79 Great War Ghosts

Photographer Philip Makanna’s

stunning images of First World

War aeroplanes — and a reader

offer to buy his new book

96 Crosswind

John Fricker provides sideways

comment on the aviation world

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Navigator

30

Our Navigator section at the

back of the magazine tells you

all you need to know about

what to buy and where to go:

85 Book reviews

8

9 3

Aeroplane services — back-

issues, binders, subscriptions,

newsagent order form, annual

index and more

94

7

Prize aviation crossword

8

Internet review

88 Information Exchange

8

7

Reader offers

Airshows & Events

9

Next month in Aeroplane

Auctions update

92

94

54

MAIN PICTURE The de Havilland D.H.108 was built to Speciﬁ cation E.18/45 for a

tailless research delta aircraft, and was known unofﬁ cially as the Swallow.

Renowned aviation photographer Charles E. Brown took this characteristi-

cally moody photograph of the third prototype, VW120, on April 12, 1948.

Some ﬁ ve months later, on September 9, John Derr y took the aircraf t to

40,000ft and put the elegantly shaped jet into a supersonic dive, making it

the ﬁ rst British aircraft to exceed Mach 1. The second part of Barry Jones’s

comprehensive series on British Military Speciﬁ cations begins on page 54 . . .

AEROPLANE JANUARY 2006

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