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2013-04-05

FlyPast May 2013 On Sale Now! Articles about Belgium

The last flypast include a fine article about the Brussels Air Museum.
As Flypast is definitively supporting Aviation Heritage do not hesitate to buy your own copy as helping them is helping  ourself.
There is also a very interesting article about "Tam" Morrison, pilot of the ill-fated Short Stirling OO-XAC from Air Transport company which crashed at Kumming (China) in December 1947 !
Many happy landings



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FlyPast May 2013
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Dambusters 617 Squadron in pro file

CURRY'S COURAGE
Baling out of a blazing B-17 over France

SILVER BULLET
Vampire warbird over the Alps

WARBIRD OF ARABIA
A Spitfire in Kuwait

DIVE-BOMBING THE JAPANESE FLEET
An interview with a Battle of Midway pilot

Spotlight - McDonnell Douglas Phantom
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In This Issue
Features

Swiss Vampire
Surgeon Eric Chardonnens flies a former Swiss Air Force DH Vampire in his spare time. Stefan Degraff and Ewin Borremans report.

Flying Fortress escape
The remarkable story of B-17 airman Melvin H Curry's escape from occupied Europe is told by Ian McLachlan.

Civilian Stirlings
Andrew Thomas looks at the use of the mighty Short Stirling in civilian guise.


Dauntless and Helldiver
Luigino Caliaro talks to 'Dusty' Kleiss, a dive-bomber pilot at the decisive Battle of Midway.

Shuttleworth's New Boss
Ben Dunnell meets Sir John Allison, the new chief pilot at Old Warden.

Clues in the Clouds
Peter Kirk remembers a high-ground crash site recovery from the 1970s and the story it revealed.

News
Historic Duxford exhibition
Spitfire on show in Kuwait
Andover to Africa
Great War bomber reproduction
Shackleton to fly
Kemble Canberra

FlyPast Spotlight
McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom

Origin and History
A look at the history of the Mach 2 fighter.

Contemporaries Compared
We compare the Phantom to two other jets of the era.

Men Behind the Phantom
Warren E Thompson looks at marine and navy crews who flew the Phantom over South East Asia.

Inside the Phantom
Cutaway artwork of an F-4.

Phantom in Profile
Pete West artwork of a record-breaking Royal Navy Phantom.

In Combat
Lt Col Everett T 'Razz' Raspberry talks to James P Busha about flying the F-4 into combat.

Warriors
A look at some Phantom survivors.

Regulars

The Way We Were
Andrew Thomas looks at the history of 617 Squadron, the RAF unit made legendary by the Dambusters raid.

FlyPost and 'Ops' Board
Readers letters, dates for your diary and a chance to win a signed Philip West Dambusters print!

From The Workshop
Eric Dumigan reports from the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, home of an airworthy Avro Lancaster.

Museums
Ben Dunnell pays a visit to the impressive Brussels Air Museum.


Glory Days
Archive images of a Supermarine Spitfire IX visiting Kuwait in 1944.

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