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KEEP THE A-10 FLYING A COMBAT PILOT'S VIEW
THE AVIATION ADVENTURE — PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE
SPITFIRE
SPY!
High-risk recon
missions
SABRE-RATTLING
F-100 pilot tells all
Football-field size
Stratolaunch
FLYING THE ROC
Pacific B-25s settle the score
July/August 2023
PAYBACK!
Test flight gone
wrong
B-1 BAILOUT
RENO RACING
The end for this
classic air race?
BA SWALLOW
Golden Age
floater
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THIS PAGE:
The Flying Heritage
FEATURES
REGULARS
& Combat Armor Museum’s
B-25J is painted in the livery
of the 490th Bombardment
Squadron that operated in
China, India, and Burma dur-
ing WW II. This aircraft looks
right at home flying over the
Pacific Ocean near Everett,
Washington for the camera of
John Dibbs. The FH&CAM
B-25J was recently acquired
by the Walton Family’s War-
time History Museum. (Photo
by John Dibbs/Facebook.
com/theplanepicture)
ON THE COVER:
Squadron
6
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Sabre-Rattling
Flying F-100s and F-86s in Korea
By Eugene “Gene” F. Kranz As told to and written by James P. Busha
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Editorial
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Gallery: BA Swallow
Slab-sided floater
By Geoff Jones
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“Gentlemen, You Had a Race … ?”
The end of the Reno Air Races
By Jan Tegler
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Tailview
Keep the A-10 Flying!
By Ken Jones, CWO 5 (Ret.)
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Spitfire Spy over China
Unauthorized, high-risk photo-recon missions
By Clive Rowley, MBE RAF (Ret.)
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Payback
B-25s settle the score on the Rising Sun
By William (Bill) M. Bower, Col. USAF (Ret.)
As told to and written by James P. Busha
Leader Andy Milikin brings
this ultra-rare, high-altitude,
Griffon-powered Spitfire PR
Mk XIX in close to the camera
ship in the clouds above the
English landscape. This is
the 2,000 hp variant and is
owned by the Battle of Britain
Memorial Flight based at RAF
Coningsby, Lincolnshire, UK.
(Photo by John Dibbs/Face-
book.com/theplanepicture
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Flying the Roc!
Stratolaunch test pilot Evan Thomas on flying
the world’s largest operational airplane
By Jan Tegler
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Forgiveness
Lt. Gen. Richard Reynolds on crashing a
$379 million B-1 prototype
By Jan Tegler
FLIGHT JOURNAL
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EDITORIAL
JULY/AUGUST 2023
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VOLUME 30, NO. 4
EDITORIAL
Editorial Director
Louis DeFrancesco
Executive Editor
Debra Cleghorn
CONTRIBUTORS
Bud Anderson, James P. Busha, Ted Carlson,
Eddie J. Creek, Doug DeCaster, Robert S.
DeGroat, John Dibbs, Robert F. Dorr, Jim
Farmer, Paul Gillcrist, Phil Haun, Randy Jolly,
Frederick Johnsen, Geoffrey P. Jones, Ron
Kaplan, Peter Lert, David Leininger, Rick
Llinares, John Lowery, George Marrett, Peter
Mersky, Paul Novak, Dan Patterson, Steve
Pace, Stan Piet, Alfred Price, Clive Rowley,
Brian Silcox, Robert Tate, Jan Tegler, Warren
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No Guns, Just Cameras!
OUR FEATURE STORY, “SPITFIRE SPY”
by fighter pilot Clive Rowley MBE RAF
(Ret.), reads like a spy thriller and is full of unauthorized, clandestine missions
by Flt. Lt. Ted Powles during the Korean War over Communist China. Powles
pushed his Spitfire Mk XIX to its absolute range and endurance, with bad guys
trying to intercept him and while dealing with mechanical mishaps. He even set
a remarkable altitude record for the Spitfire. The objective of these secret, long-
range spy missions was photographic reconnaissance. And by the way, he had
no guns—just cameras—and if there was a problem over enemy territory, the
mission didn’t exist, so there was no one to rescue Powles from enemy territory!
Photo recon had significantly evolved during the Second World War, but there
were really no specialized aircraft variants developed, just hastily modified
Mosquitos, Spitfires, P-38 Lightnings, Martin Marylands, A-20 Havocs, and
others. Photographic Intelligence had become key to Allied victory. Late in the
War and beyond, aircraft like the Spitfire Mk XIX with its Rolls-Royce 37-liter,
2,000 hp Griffon engine, pressurized cockpit, and wing tanks were designed
with long-range, high-altitude missions in mind. The evolution of these features
on this variant were certainly the precursor to the purpose-built Lockheed U-2
“Dragon Lady” spy plane, which made its first flight just a few short years later
in August 1955.
Despite these continued advances in aviation technology and performance, it
was the brave pilots like Flt. Lt. Ted Powles who took on these perilous missions
we need to thank and pay tribute to. Most have been forgotten or were never
recognized at all. It’s encouraging to know that Powles received the British Air
Force Cross for his bravery after completing 107 of these death-defying sorties.
As always, we hope you enjoy all the stories in this issue as we honor those who
were there, making aviation history.
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