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The Aviation Historian
The modern journal of classic aeroplanes and the history of flying
®
STORM FRONT
THE TYPHOON & THE RP-3 ROCKET
10
YEARS
ISSUE 41
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THE AVIATION HISTORIAN
Issue No 41
Published quarterly by:
The Aviation Historian
PO Box 962
Horsham RH12 9PP
United Kingdom
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www.theaviationhistorian.com
The Aviation Historian
The modern journal of classic aeroplanes and the history of flying
®
Editor’s Letter
ON SEPTEMBER 8, 2022, as this issue was going to press, it
was announced that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II had
died. We join with the nation, the Commonwealth and the
world in mourning her passing.
During Her Majesty’s 70-year reign, Britain saw epochal
changes to virtually every aspect of life — not least in
technological advancement within aviation. In 1952, the year
The Queen ascended to the throne, a BOAC de Havilland
Comet completed the world’s first fare-paying scheduled jet
service to Johannesburg. Thirty years later British-designed
and -built aircraft helped her forces to secure UK sovereignty
for the Falkland Islands against Argentinian invasion. These
two of the many significant aeronautical milestones in her
reign are reflected in this issue: the first by Professor Keith
Hayward FRAeS, who concludes his three-part series on the
Comet’s knotty relationship with Her Majesty’s Government;
and the second by Chris Gibson’s revelation of a secret 1982
RAF plan to bomb the Argentinian mainland with a single
Vulcan, which would then return to the UK — via Hawaii,
mainland USA and Canada. Would such a mission have
affected the prevailing political and military calculus? Might
it have changed the crucial balance of support among other
nations? It’s a fascinating “what if . . .”
This issue also introduces a brand-new technological series,
in which world-class illustrator Ian Bott gets “under the
bonnet” of some of the many and varied aerial weapons
developed by the British. To kick off the series, he teams up
with Hawker Typhoon specialist Matt Bone to examine the
nuts and bolts of the RP-3 rocket projectile; future subjects
include the Firestreak and Bloodhound air-to-air and surface-
to-air missiles respectively.
With this 41st issue of
TAH,
then, we bid farewell to the
latest Elizabethan age, which saw such endeavour and
achievement in aerospace. May the new Carolean era prove
to be just as fruitful.
ISSUE NUMBER 41
(published October 15, 2022)
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Nick Stroud
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FRONT COVER
Hawker Typhoon IB EK497 armed with RP-3 rocket
projectiles. Ian Bott’s new series starts on page 38. Colourisation of
original photograph by RICHARD J. MOLLOY.
PHILIP JARRETT COLLECTION
BACK COVER
The stylish fin livery of a UAT Douglas DC-8. Maurice
Wickstead traces the twin histories of French airlines UAT and TAI
up to their merger into UTA, beginning on page 26.
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THE AVIATION HISTORIAN
Issue No 41
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CONTENTS
3
EDITOR’S LETTER
6
AIR CORRESPONDENCE
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BEYOND BLACK BUCK?
58
86
Issue No 41
40 years ago, during the Falklands conflict, a secret RAF
proposal was put forward to use a Vulcan to bomb targets
on the Argentinian mainland. Having trawled the archives
to find the evidence, Chris Gibson reveals an audacious
plan for a truly extraordinary hemispheric bombing raid
Lennart Andersson traces the final days of American
aviator Glenn Warren Brophy, who in March 1931 set off in
a Waco biplane named
Phoenix
to attempt the first
non-stop solo flight from China to the Philippines
Renowned airline historian Maurice Wickstead opens a
two-part series on the history of French independent
airline
Union de Transports Aériens
with the post-war
genesis and development of its two major components
Illustrator Ian Bott and Typhoon specialist Matt Bone join
forces to get under the skin of the RP-3 rocket projectile,
used to such devastating effect by the beefy Hawker fighter
In the early 1960s the French were developing their own
VTOL jet aircraft — but their test pilots required “hands-
on” experience of jump-jet operations. Enter the UK’s
Short SC.1, as Jean-Christophe Carbonel explains
In May 1927, two intrepid RAF officers set a new long-
distance flight record in a Hawker Horsley. A few hours
later, however, it was broken by Charles Lindbergh and
completely forgotten by history, as Dr Tim Jenkins relates
Former Supermarine Scimitar pilot Cdr John Ford RN (Retd)
responds to Paul Stoddart’s critique of the naval jet fighter
in
TAH38,
and argues that it was sharper than portrayed
In the first half of a two-part series on the USA’s use of
drone aircraft in post-war atomic weapon testing, Bill
Cahill chronicles B-17 operations in the Pacific in 1946–48
Professor Keith Hayward FRAeS concludes his three-part
series on the political life of the de Havilland Comet with
the development of the Comet 3 and 4 variants
Robert Forsyth and Andres Dillmann’s profile of Luftwaffe
reconnaissance pilot Karl Friedrich Bergen culminates with
his life — and death — on the Atlantic Front in 1943–44
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FALL OF THE PHOENIX
26
THE UTA STORY Pt 1: TAI & UAT 1945–62
38
HELL’S TEETH!
26
48
AVENTURES FRANÇAISES EN VTOL
58
GUTS, NO GLORY
68
THE CASE FOR THE SCIMITAR
18
38
74
GHOST FORTRESSES OF THE APOCALYPSE Pt 1
86
BACK IN BUSINESS
96
EYES OF THE LUFTWAFFE Pt 2
68
106
SWITZERLAND & THE SWASHBUCKLER
50 years ago the Swiss pulled the plug on procuring a new
ground-attack aircraft, despite having extensively tested
the LTV A-7G Corsair II. Peter Lewis tells the full story
David H. Stringer takes us on an ambitious — if ill-fated —
global tour using scheduled air services in April 1937
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ARMCHAIR AVIATION
123
LOST & FOUND
124
AROUND THE WORLD IN 28 DAYS!
130
OFF THE BEATEN TRACK
Issue No 41
THE AVIATION HISTORIAN
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