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All the latest preservation news, compiled by Tony Harmsworth 24 BROOKLANDS MUSEUM

Gary R. Brown turns our “Museum Spotlight” series on Brooklands 26 AIRCREW

James Kightly describes the work of the pilot of a pioneering helicopter. Illustration by Ian Bott

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A selection of readers’ letters 86 EVENTS

Event listings for June 2012 87 FLYING VISIT

Chairman of the Vintage Aircraft Club and regular Aeroplane columnist Steve Slater talks about his flying career 88 Q&A, LOST & FOUND

Your questions asked, and answered, with Mike Hooks, while Philip Jarrett looks at some real “early birds” 92 BOOK REVIEWS 105 SERVICES AND

NEXT MONTH IN AEROPLANE 106 HAIRY MOMENT

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MAIN PIC: An impressive formation of Fokker designed First World War aircraft being flown by The Vintage Aviator Ltd pilots in New Zealand. From nearest the camera: Fokker D.VIII, Fokker D.VII, and Fokker Dr.I triplane. ALEX MITCHELL

Page 98 COVER IMAGE: Hispano Ha-112-M1L Buchón C.4K102/G-AWHK, wearing its Battle of Britain film scheme, was photographed by JOHN M. DIBBS.

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Features

THE FORGOTTEN GENIUS OF F.G. MILES Jim Pratt, Jeremy Miles and Karen Miles reveal F.G. Miles’s vital contribution to the Battle of Britain

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“WHITE 3” FLIES COAST-TO-COAST Wolfgang Czaia, Legend Flyers/ Me 262 Project test pilot, describes an epic flight

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30 YEARS AGO To mark the 30th anniversary of the Falklands Conflict, author Rowland White’s bestselling book Vulcan 607 is being published in two new editions incorporating much new and previously unseen material. Here we present a handful of pictures from the book

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FLIGHT LIEUTENANT S.H. WALLAGE MC Norman Franks describes how, following the Armistice, luck just ran out for another experienced and decorated First World War British airman

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THE KAMPER LAKE TRAGEDY Andreas Metzmacher describes the loss of a Dornier Do 24 flying-boat on a mercy mission

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THE RETURN OF YELLOW 10 Col Pope tells how a Buchón has come to be based at its 1968 film location, wearing the same colour scheme it wore for the epic Battle of Britain movie

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THE “WONDER WEAPON” OF GEISENHAUSEN A rare example of the Nazi-German V1 Reichenberg piloted flying-bomb is up for sale, as Dr. Rudolf Stumberger reports

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SPARTAN’S MOSQUITOES After the Second World War a number of de Havilland Mosquitoes found ready customers on retirement from RAF ownership. The high-altitude B.35 versions were particularly useful for photographic work, and Mike Hooks traces the ten which served with Spartan Air Services in Canada

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THE “FLYING RAZOR” Gene DeMarco, chief pilot of The Vintage Aviator Ltd, describes the flying qualities of a classic late-First World War parasol monoplane fighter

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HITLER’S BUG KILLERS Barry Wheeler describes a little-known wartime Luftwaffe unit and its unusual role

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BIGGIN HILL’S “ULTIMATE SPITFIRE” Rachel Morris highlights the recent return to flight of Spitfire Mk Ia X4650. Air-to-air photography by John M. Dibbs

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“TO SERVE WAS THEIR HIGHEST AIM” Martyn Chorlton outlines 101 Sqn’s Ludford Magna years

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69 VICKERS VISCOUNT From the mid-1930s through to the mid-1960s the USA dominated the world airliner market. However, as Barry Jones recounts, it had one formidable competitor, the Viscount, the world’s first aircraft designed solely for turboprop propulsion s the USA

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